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New research reveals what kids in Saudi Arabia want from a family holiday
DUBAI — Whether it’s hiking through a forest, riding the fastest roller coaster or building sand castles on a beach, vacations offer amazing opportunities for families to spend time together. Parents in Saudi Arabia learn more about what their kids like and don’t like while kids learn that their parents are cool after all!A growing number of parents in Saudi Arabia are prioritizing family vacations and taking their kids on different adventures, driven by the desire to spend a greater amount of time with their children, all whilst discovering new countries and cultures.A new survey from Yas Island Abu Dhabi offers absolutely essential advice for the 84% of Saudi parents who say their children are the biggest influencing factor whilst planning the perfect holiday.Kids just want to get...
September 10, 2019

New research reveals what kids in Saudi Arabia want from a family holiday

A conservationist keeps watch over porpoises at the Yangtze river near the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China August 21, 2019. -Reuters
Fit for porpoise: China races to save last Yangtze river mammal
NANJING, CHINA - On a short stretch of the Yangtze river, three sleek grey porpoises twist in muddy waters near the city of Nanjing, protected from passing barges and ships by a row of yellow buoys.With only 1,000 remaining, the Yangtze finless porpoise is a symbol of the damage done to China's longest river in a decades-long campaign to tame floods, reclaim farmland and industrialize the regions along its banks.President Xi Jinping's call for sustainable growth in the Yangtze "economic belt" has raised hopes that the river's last surviving mammal can become an emblem of China's environmental revival."It has now been scientifically proven that the Yangtze porpoise is a unique species," said Jiang Meng, who heads a group that oversees the porpoise safe...
September 08, 2019

Fit for porpoise: China races to save last Yangtze river mammal

Visitors to Tokyo's 'little Seoul' are often seeking the latest K-pop sensations. –AFP
K-Pop and Kimchi: Tokyo's 'Little Seoul' shrugs off spat
TOKYO - In the "little Seoul" area of Tokyo, Japanese shoppers flock to get their fix of K-pop and Korean face cream, seemingly shrugging off a deep freeze in Japan-South Korean ties.Visitors to Shin-Okubo could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a district in Seoul, with rows of restaurants serving kimchi and music shops selling the latest K-pop hits from BTS or Wanna One.And in contrast to South Korea where anger over a deterioration in bilateral ties has sparked consumer boycotts of Japanese goods, it seems it takes more than a political spat to put off avid fans of Korean products."I love everything, K-pop, the food, the clothes. I would also like the two countries to make up," said Anna Kaneko, a 19-year-old student making one of her regular trips to...
September 03, 2019

K-Pop and Kimchi: Tokyo's 'Little Seoul' shrugs off spat

A trailer competes in the 170 km Mount Blanc Ultra Trail (UTMB) race around the Mont-Blanc crossing France, Italy and Swiss, on August 31, 2019 in the Tete aux Vents near Chamonix. -AFP
French mayor urges action against Mont-Blanc 'wackos'
GRENOBLE, FRANCE - The mayor of Chamonix in the French Alps has urged President Emmanuel Macron to act against "wackos" climbing the nearby Mont Blanc, after a series of incidents including a British tourist abandoning a rowing machine on the famed mountain.Mayor Jean-Marc Peillex, who for years has sounded the alarm against overcrowding on Europe's highest peak, said a member of Britain's "Royal Commandos" hauled up the exercise machine for a stunt on Saturday.But he did not have the strength to bring it back down and left it in an emergency hut situated at 4,362 meters.The man gave his name as Disney -- "with a name like that, you'd think he thought he was at an amusement park," Peillex said in an open letter published Sunday.Also over the...
September 03, 2019

French mayor urges action against Mont-Blanc 'wackos'

Workers collect the rubble of damaged buildings to be recycled and reused for reconstruction, under the supervision of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Homs, Syria.  –Courtesy photo
Recycling rubble to save mountains, rivers and beaches
NICOSIA - Recycling rubble, particularly in countries pummeled by war, is one way to limit environmental damage caused by extracting sand and rock, according to Pascal Peduzzi of UN Environment."Syria is experiencing a horrible and tragic war -- whole cities will have to be razed and rebuilt," the expert told AFP."Construction materials must be recycled or we will have quarry problems."In neighboring Lebanon, which experienced its own protracted civil war, a multitude of illegal quarries have already left gaping wounds in the mountainsides.Environmentalists worry there could be an uptick in extraction to feed an eventual reconstruction of Syria.But recycling rubble is also an option for countries not devastated by war.The United Kingdom introduced a tax on landfilling...
September 01, 2019

Recycling rubble to save mountains, rivers and beaches

This photograph taken on August 21, 2019 shows two men walking in the underground cooling system installation of the Marina Bay Sands hotel and resort in Singapore. -AFP
What lies beneath: Singapore plans a subterranean future
SINGAPORE - Space-starved Singapore has expanded outwards by building into the sea and upwards by constructing high-rises but planners are now looking underground as they seek new areas for growth.The nation has carefully managed its rapid growth in recent decades to avoid the problems faced by other fast developing Asian metropolises, such as overcrowding and traffic chaos.But with its population of 5.6 million expected to grow steadily in coming years, authorities are now considering how to better use the space below the streets in a city that is just half the size of Los Angeles.Singapore has already built an underground highway and state-of-the-art air conditioning system, but is now looking to house more facilities beneath the surface in order to optimize land use above it."We...
September 01, 2019

What lies beneath: Singapore plans a subterranean future

Pillar corals in a water tank at the labs of The Florida Aquarium Conservation Center in Apollo Beach where recently the spawning occurred on August 22, 2019, in Apollo Beach, Florida. -AFP
Scientists reproduce coral in lab, offering hope for reefs
MIAMI - A team of scientists in the US have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save "America's Great Barrier Reef" off the coast of Florida.The researchers from Florida Aquarium's Center for Conservation were able to reproduce endangered Atlantic Pillar coral through induced spawning, a development that could ultimately prevent the extinction of the Florida Reef tract."This amazing breakthrough was the first time that we spawned Atlantic corals in a laboratory setting that we've had for over a year in our greenhouses," Amber Whittle, the aquarium's director for conservation, told AFP Monday."It's been done before at the Horniman Museum in London with Pacific corals, never with...
August 27, 2019

Scientists reproduce coral in lab, offering hope for reefs

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Lovers of Tuscany's 'paradise' beach have factory to thank
ROSIGNANAO SOLVAY-CASTIGLIONCELLO, ITALY - Holidaymakers splash in the turquoise waters of the Rosignano Solvay beach in Tuscany and laze on its pristine white sands -- most of them fully aware that the picture-perfect swimming spot owes its allure to a nearby factory."I discovered it on Google Maps," said Dutch tourist Lieuya, who traveled to the beach with his family to enjoy a setting more reminiscent of the Caribbean than of northern Italy."I was told it's not dangerous, that the color comes from the soda factory next door," he told AFP.Questions have lingered for decades over why the sea and sand are such startling colors -- with some environmentalists suggesting the phenomenon is caused by heavy metals emitted by the plant.The beach, about four kilometers...
August 27, 2019

Lovers of Tuscany's 'paradise' beach have factory to thank

Indonesia's Komodo dragons. -Courtesy photo
Indonesia to close giant lizard island leaving guides, villagers in the lurch
KOMODO, INDONESIA - Almost every day 20-year-old Rizaldian Syahputra puts on his blue uniform, laces up his high boots and leaves his wooden house on stilts for a job many nature-lovers would envy.But by next year, he may no longer be employed.Syahputra works as a wildlife guide at Komodo National Park on the eastern Indonesian island of Komodo, taking visitors around the park on foot to get up close to the leathery Komodo dragons, the world's largest living lizard species.The Indonesian government plans to close the island to the public from January next year in a bid to conserve the rare reptiles.The scheme also involves moving about 2,000 villagers off the island. Authorities are holding talks with community leaders on how to relocate the residents, Josef Nae Soi, deputy governor of...
August 27, 2019

Indonesia to close giant lizard island leaving guides, villagers in the lurch

Tourists take a cruise on August 19, 2019, in the Scandola Nature Reserve, on the western coast of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. -AFP
'Red lights' as over-tourism threatens Corsican nature reserve
GIROLATA, FRANCE - "It's nature's magical design," says a tourist guide, waxing poetic as he comments on the impressive red cliffs plunging into a turquoise sea at the Scandola nature reserve on France's Corsica island."Amazing!" exclaims Irena Snydrova, a Czech tourist visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site with her family, along with groups from Italy, Spain and France.Their boat sidles up to the Steps of Paradise, rocks shaped into a stairway some 15 meters long, then glides on to Bad Luck Pass, a former pirates' redoubt.The ages have sculpted the volcanic cliffs into myriad shapes that beguile the visitor, who might imagine a kissing couple here, a horse's head there, Napoleon's two-cornered hat further on...The park, created in 1975, is an...
August 25, 2019

'Red lights' as over-tourism threatens Corsican nature reserve

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