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Environmental tour company Ecoventura has promised to stop using fossil fuels on its vessels by 2015. Ecoventura runs environmentally conscious boat tours to the Galapagos Islands, a unique ecosystem that is under threat by climate change and ...

If Chaoyang was in America, it would be the third largest city after New York and Los Angeles. But even in China, let alone elsewhere, a majority of the people have no clue where the city of 3.4 million is. Yet it's a must-see destination if you have ...

The first time I'd heard of Lucy was at this afterhours spot in LA. A friend of mine had taken me there promising I'd love the reggae music and low-key atmosphere. I did. Red, ites, and green paint coated the walls crying out RAS-TA-FAR-I. Posters of ...

The Imperial-styled strip mall may look like a relic of the past, with its clay tiles, ornate sidings and those Chinese New Year red lanterns, but like much in China, it's spanking new. Yet relics of the past are good business here. In one of the ...

National Geographic News is reporting that the U.S. Department of the Interior has designated Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds a national natural landmark.  The fossil beds, located near the town of Neligh, contain hundreds of fossils, including ...

The new trend among all sorts of green energies is in bio-fuels, those combustible fluids made from renewable sources such as switch grass, corn or soybeans. They're all over the place in the automotive industry, millions of cars burning E38, ...

OK, OK, I took some flak for being insensitive to some of the creationist folks out there. I apologize. It's Monday and maybe I was just a little grumpy. I just wanted to let all the pro-evolutionists out there know that the Museum of Natural ...

I'm intrigued by this photograph of stromatolites, which I've just learned are "fossils which show the life processes of cyanobacteria (formerly called blue-green algae)."  Who knew?  This picture was talen by laRuth at Lake Thetis in ...

For the Gadling series "World Heritage Site new "Tentative List": Places to Love" we are covering the 14 sites that have been submitted for possible inclusion as an official World Heritage Site in the United States. The sites will not be posted in ...

Okay, it's not exactly a cure for cancer, but any initiative that does cut down on fossil fuel reliance still resonates with me. So, I was pretty excited to see that the Jalousie Plantation has adopted a hybrid solar-powered golf cart to move guests ...

The news wires have been aflame for the past couple of months with reports of the amazing new fossil called Ida, which has been hailed as the fabled "missing link" just as Lucy was when it was excavated in Ethiopia in 1974. Journalistic hyperbole ...

Remember when Jurassic Park lit up movie houses and cinemas across the world?  It made great conversation for weeks and could be considered one of the top ten films featuring a T-Rex ever! (Just how many films feature dinosaurs ...

Glass art, gems, minerals, semi-precious stone beads, fossils and jewelry from all over the world seems to be all the rage over in Arizona these days. First glance at their event calendar points those in need of crafty vacations and Bead Holidays to ...