In a report that examined the air quality of 100 global cities, 19 were found to have substantially improved since 2010. 9 of the 19 were in China and Hong Kong, while the rest were located in Europe, and include both large and small cities. In the US,…
A woman who had a DoorDash order brought to her house was shocked to see an old man on her doorbell camera. Inspired to help, she set up a GoFundMe, which raised $940,000 to allow the man to retire. It was just another weekday in Manchester, Tennessee,…
An American conservation NGO has helped propose and fund the creation of a vast new nature reserve along a critical corridor of biodiversity high in the Bolivian Andes. Containing over 1,300 native species, including 13 found only in Bolivia, the Serra…
The best travel stories are often those most subtle; things that only a genuinely attentive person could pick out in the strange society they pass through. Such a story comes now from Japan via the BBC, where reporter Giulia Crouch put together the tal…
From Alabama comes the story of two restaurant-regulars chowing down on a 54-year-old promise from their favorite oyster bar. Jim and Jimmy Rush always wondered whether the sign behind the bar at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile was “for r…
The announcement of a new transboundary birding route has catapulted southern Africa to the forefront of international birdwatching travel. Spanning Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the route contains an estimated 650 endemic and migrat…
