World’s Best Eco-Friendly Hotels – Top 10 Best Eco-friendly Hotels in the World Come with us on a journey to the world’s best eco-friendly hotels! Take a break and relax guilt-free at these top 10 best eco-friendly hotels in the world. Be sure to watch all the way […]
Chinook salmon spend about a year and half in freshwater before making the journey to the ocean. While chinook salmon tend to get the most attention during their epic spawning runs in the summer, Yukon’s waters are teeming with the fish year-round — including during the winter. In […]
EcoCamp Patagonia (www.ecocamp.travel) is one of the world’s most sustainable hotels. Located in Torres del Paine National Park (Southern Chile), it is also the world’s first geodesic hotel and the 1st fully sustainable hotel south of the Amazon. Discover how the hotel uses revolutionary design and techniques to […]
Approximately 8,000-12,000 of the North Pacific humpback whale stock visits the shallow waters of the Hawaiian Islands seasonally to breed. During this time, mature males produce an elaborate acoustic display known as “song,” which becomes the dominant source of ambient underwater sound between December and April. Following reports […]
Ecotourism in Greece: With its many islands and thousands-years-old culture, the European country is a popular travel destination. To protect its environment, more and more hotels are offering soft, sustainable tourism. We will show you a hotel that completely banned plastic and a hotel room where cliffside is […]
Together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Senckenberg scientists Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt examined sediment samples from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench for the presence of microplastics. In their study, which was recently published in Environmental Pollution, the researchers show that 1 […]
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Biologist and cultural practitioner Sam Ohu Gon III reveals the true Hawaii, a place much more than beaches and mai tais. In these islands, there is a message for the world. Senior Scientist […]
Never heard of these islands? Check out where they are on Google maps. On top of Antigua and Barbuda having world-class beaches, this island nation is leading the effort to create more sustainable tourist destinations.
Millions of tons of organic carbon and methane beneath the Arctic Ocean thaw out and ooze to the surface each year. And climate change could speed up this release of greenhouse gases, new research suggests. The carbon tied up in organic matter and methane (a carbon atom bound to four hydrogen […]
British Columbia resigned to a ‘long fight’ after 2020’s efforts to track and kill the invasive insects ended in frustration The year 2020 is not one that beekeepers in Washington state and the Canadian province of British Columbia are likely to forget in a hurry. Since the spring, experts […]
