The president of the Maldives and his cabinet met underwater today to urge global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives are a beautiful archipelago of more than 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean, famous for their clear waters, clean beaches, and coral reefs. But with the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Underwater cabinet meeting highlights need to save Maldives
The president of the Maldives and his cabinet met underwater today to urge global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives are a beautiful archipelago of more than 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean, famous for their clear waters, clean beaches, and coral reefs. But with the ...Maldives President proposes green tax for tourists
The Maldives, an archipelago of over 1000 islands in the Indian Ocean known for their stunning beauty and expensive, luxurious resorts, aren't exactly cheap to visit. And they aren't about to get any cheaper. The President of the Maldives has proposed a $3 per day "green ...The top ten beach hotels of the world
European hotel booking site Trivago, recently released the results of their guest survey to find the ten best beach hotels in the world. The lineup has a bit of a European tint to it, and no hotels in North or South America made the cut. Still, the list has 10 hotels I ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Bluepeace
Saffah Faroog sips a mango juice and continues explaining the history of the Maldives oldest environmental group, Bluepeace, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. He is its communications director, a volunteer like the rest of its staff, and has a great story to ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Fishing in the Maldives
Mohammed Jarrad and his four-man crew left the dock in their slow-chugging dhoni at five this morning. When I meet them unloading the day's catch just as they sun disappears it means they've been at it for fourteen hours, a typical day for a Maldivian fishermen. The haul? ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Eydhafushi, Maldives
Late on a Sunday afternoon, hardly a day of rest in this part of the world, the small island of Eydhafushi is quiet. The men, most of who go to sea each day to fish or work at one of six nearby tourist resorts, are absent. School is out for a week's holiday so kids of ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Snorkeling through the Maldives
Swimming along the coral edge of what transplanted marine biologist Anke Hofmeister calls her "home reef" the line dividing the shallows and deep blue is exact. To our left in the brightly sunlit coral, hundreds of shiny reef fish dart and feed; in the dark blue, just to ...Gadling Take FIVE: Week of April 18-- April 24
When I read through Gadling posts each week, there's this potpourri of options. Jon Bowermaster has traded Antarctica for the Maldives, Tynan has been roughing it on a cruise ship and Mike has the scoop on the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. This week let's hone in on places ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- The Maldives and carbon effects
The call to Friday prayers on Eydhafushi are spread island-wide by plastic loudspeakers affixed to poles and buildings scattered around the Maldivian sand-spit, home to three thousand. When it comes I'm floating a quarter mile offshore and it wakes me from a heat (90 ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Welcome to the Maldives
The last time I was in the island nation of the Maldives – nearly 400,000 people scattered among 1,200 tiny islands running south for a thousand miles off the tips of Sri Lanka and India – the place was on edge. It was early in 2005 and the tsunami waves had ...Five More Places To See Before They Are Changed Forever
Last week we posted a story from CNN.com that named five places to see before climate changed altered them forever. The destinations that made their list included the Great Barrier Reef, the city of New Orleans, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, the Alpine Glaciers ...The Maldives, where tourists and extremists mingle
As for anyone who likes to dive, the Maldives have been high on my list for years. I have heard that virtually all of the 1200 coral islands are magnificent and the diving incredible. I haven't been able to swing a trip there yet, but I am thinking I should do so very ...Boy Scout thwarts attempted assassination of Maldives' president
On Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy from the Maldives prevented a would-be assassin from stabbing the country's president during a stop in the north of the archipelago. The boy, Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim, dressed in full Boy Scout uniform, was waiting to shake the hand of the ...Undersea Eatery
I caught news about this cool restaurant in the Maldives at first over at this blog, and I was getting all giddy over the post heralding a "all new undersea restaurant". Then I realized that the blog post was dated in 2005, so I had to rewrite things. But I am still going ...World's First Underwater Restaurant
Ever wanted to eat fish amongst the fish, or watch a stingray swim past during dinner? If this sounds like your thing, travel to the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa, where you can eat at Ithaa -- the world's first-ever undersea restaurant.
By the looks of it, you'll be ...Photo of the Day (12/17/2006)
Here's a photo of a place that might not be with us much longer. According to some reports and research, the Maldives might someday disappear beneath the ocean waves due to rising sea levels and global warming. Bad news, especially for Maldivians. I understand, actually, ...Places Still Struggle
It's amazing how fast time passes. The December 2004 tsunami in Asia now seems like it happened a hundred years ago. But the fact is, some places are still struggling to rebuild. I had little notion the Maldives were struggling so badly, but as this article reports, the ...Maldives Interactive
And speaking of Bowermaster, because it's so dreary and hot outside, I figured you might enjoy a little visual respite. Go take a gander at this sweet little interactive feature about Bowermaster in the Maldives. You know the Maldives? The islands that likely won't exist in ...Go Before They're Gone
This month's Men's Journal features an article whose theme is horribly depressing; phenomenal travel destinations that will soon disappear.
For those of you who don't believe in Global Warming, you may want to click over to some feel-good fantasy site because the following ...
