Few things give one the perspective that staring into the cosmos can. These star trails were captured with long-exposure on their journey through the night’s sky. Get starry eyed with more images of alien galaxies here. Photograph by Jack Fusco

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust takes in orphaned elephants to their Nairobi-based nursery, caring for the creatures until they are no longer milk-dependant around the age of four. “Any wild elephant group is, in essence, one large and highly sensitive organism. Young elephants are raised within a matriarchal family of doting female caregivers, beginning with [...]

Nujood Ali was just 10 years old when she was married off by her father to a man in his 30s. After being subjected to rape and daily beatings, the little girl fled to the Yemeni capital of Sanaa where she wandered into a courthouse and demanded a divorce. According to TIME, 52 percent of [...]

Children in Uganda are the ongoing victims of the longest-standing armed conflict in Africa. Led by Josephy Kony, The Lord’s Resistance Army have reigned terror across central Africa for over two decades. The LRA have only maintained their existence through the recruitment of thousands of child soldiers; brainwashing them with a twisted preaching of fanatical [...]

Photography by: Marketa Kalvachova The beautiful, in-foul mares of Southern Iceland. Via National Geographic.