QUEENSTOWN
Queenstown, New Zealand, has an audacious goal to become the first tourist destination on Earth to have a completely carbon-zero visitor economy by 2030. If …
DIRE WOLF
Ben Lamm, the 43-year-old denim-jacketed CEO of Colossal Biosciences, claims to have reintroduced dire wolves into the world after more than 10,000 years of extinction. …
DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS
When the Duck-billed platypus was first encountered by Europeans in 1798, a pelt and sketch were sent back to Great Britain by Captain John Hunter, the second Governor of New South …
ELEPHANTS HATE BEES
Did you know that elephants hate bees? Around the world, spreading farmland is increasingly overlapping with elephant habitats, often resulting in dangerous interactions, as …
TEXTILE WASTE
The level of textile waste in the world is truly staggering; 85% of the 100 billion items of apparel produced by the textile industry EACH …
UNFIT, UNFAIR AND UNFASHIONABLE
Unfit, unfair and unfashionable is shorthand for the results of a report by the Hot or Cool Institute on the fashion industry worldwide. The main …
ICE-AGE ANTELOPE
Ice-age antelopes have surged back from extinction in Kazakhstan. That sounds a little like a “Jurassic Park” story, but it is real and has resulted …
A BETTER FOG TRAP
A few years ago, I published a blog called “A Better Fog Trap”. It was a story of a simple solution, developed by local communities, …
GREENLAND
Greenland is about to open up to adventure-seeking visitors. How many tourists will come is yet to be seen, but three new airports will bring …
GEORGIA MILITARY ROAD
Following a traditional path used by traders and invaders, the Georgia Military Road has been a passageway for people and ideas since antiquity. The …