Rioja region earns UNESCO tourism blessing
The Rioja region of Spain is known for red wines that are fruity and tannic, most notably tempranillo, Spain’s king of grapes. (Roughly 75 percent of the grapes grown in the region are tempranillo.) Wines from the region are often…
NYTimes’ Reporter Still Asking For Forgiveness After Climate Sins
New York Times’ reporter Andy Newman has followed up on his guilt-ridden travel piece in the paper’s um, Travel section (headlined under the buzz-killing title, “Travel’s Climate Problem – If to see the world is also to help destroy it,…
Winning Nat Geo photos reveal nature and humanity at their finest
National Geographic asked readers to show them the world, and these photographers didn’t disappoint, offering inspiring images from their travels. For the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest, the judges chose winning images in three categories — cities, people and…
Boaty McBoatface Is Now Studying Global Warming – Popular Mechanics
Povl Abrahamsen, British Antarctic Survey A few years ago, the British Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) went unexpectedly viral when the Internet took over a voting campaign to name a new research vessel. Left open for suggestions, the poll became…
How much noise should you accept in your home?
“People should not be forced to choose between intolerable noise or poor indoor air quality in their homes.”
Risky business: New data show how manatees use shipping channels
New research tracks West Indian manatee movements through nearshore and offshore ship channels in the north-central Gulf of Mexico. A new publication in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science tracks West Indian manatee movements through nearshore and offshore ship channels in the north-central Gulf of Mexico.
I Am Part of the Climate-Change Problem. That’s Why I Wrote About It. – The New York Times
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. I have written thousands of articles for The New York Times. Only one, so far, has cast me as a…
Exciting progress on NASAâs next Mars mission
The Mars Helicopter – which will launch with Mars 2020 – has now passed some key tests. Plus engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, celebrate with a selfie after attaching the Mars 2020 rover’s remote sensing mast.
Car ownership is likely to become a thing of the past — and so could public transport
As urban infrastructure goes increasingly digital, mobility is set to fundamentally change.
Cycling commissioners in UK call painted bike lanes a waste of money
But alas, nobody seems to listen to cycling commissioners in the UK.
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