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"...three times the size of France" It's been building for a while. Discovered in 1997, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world's biggest collection of 'floating trash'. Located between Hawaii and California, scientists have recently found that this circling pile...
From 'Your Forests Your Future' Caroline Gleich speaks up about her environmental standings. A professional ski mountaineer, who has some impressive ascents and descents under her belt, including being the first female and fourth person ever to complete all 90 lines...
"Hundreds of feet off the ground on a highline in Lebanon, I'm exposed. This gap that I am crossing is a physical one, and it makes me think of the other gaps in the world; the ones between cultures and social classes and how we can help to bridge those gaps".Sonya...
Given that her second time on a snowboard led to a broken wrist, it’s a wonder Haley Kraus ever made it back to the mountains at all. “I sat in the ski patrol shack [in Big Sky, Montana] for two hours. People just walking by, because my mom didn’t have any cell phone...
I started snowboarding back in 1998. At eight years old I was gifted an electric orange, Oxygen Joker snowboard for Christmas. Little did I know as I hugged my first snowboard so ecstatically, it was going to pave out how I made all my major life decisions. From whom...
Dear International Olympic Committee, I have been an Olympics fan since childhood. I remember being eight years old, huddled close to the TV set, eyes locked on the screen as the women flipped, tumbled, and soared through their gymnastics routines at the 1988 summer...