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Gas Mask Paradise Island

On an archipelago south of Tokyo, there is a lush paradise-like island where residents must carry gas masks on them at all times. Miyakejima, part of the Izu Islands, is part of an unrestful volcanic chain that has seen six eruptions in the last century, the last in the year 2000 when a mass evacuation…

Greetings, from the Desert of Ghost Ships

Only 30 years ago, this was home to our planet’s 4th largest inland water mass; an ancient sea so vast, even Alexander the Great wrote of his struggles to cross it; where fishing commerce boomed and holidaymakers once flocked to its seaside spa town. Now, for the first time in 600 years, the Aral Sea…

The Canary Girls and the WWI Poisons That Turned Them Yellow

At lunchtime, the women had to be separated in the cafeteria because everything they touched turned yellow. They were called the “Canary Girls” because of their bright yellow skin and green or ginger-coloured hair. With the nation’s men at war and male labour in short supply, Britain’s women had been recruited to ramp up production ammunition and were…
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