On a warm August morning in 2012, two teenage best friends, nineteen-year-old Iris Jansen and her lifelong companion Quinn Walsh, set off on what was meant to be a short backpacking trip in…

In September 2017, Jasmine Kensington, an experienced hiker with a deep passion for the outdoors, set out on what was supposed to be a routine solo hiking trip into the vast and rugged…

A recent health alert has drawn international concern after officials in China reported a severe outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease. More than 7,000 confirmed cases have been recorded, with Guangdong province…

It was one of those scorching afternoons when the heat seems to rise off the pavement in waves, the kind of day when even the breeze feels like it’s been pulled straight from…

When most people think about the volume buttons on their phone, they imagine only one simple function: turning the sound up or down. But by 2025, those small side keys have quietly transformed…

In the summer of 2023, the Grand Tetons stood tall and indifferent as 24-year-old Amy Turner set out on what was meant to be her dream solo trek through the rugged peaks. Amy…

In 2012, 23-year-old Asha Baduri set off alone into Utah’s Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest seeking the solitude she had long craved. She was careful, almost obsessive in her planning, with detailed maps, GPS coordinates,…

When Khaled Baptiste and his 15-year-old niece, Lisa, set out for what was supposed to be a peaceful hiking trip in Grand Teton National Park in May 2015, no one in their Georgia…

For six long years, Marlene Jackson lived with an emptiness that never eased, waiting for her son Devon to return home. He had vanished on what seemed like a routine Sunday in Atlanta,…