The list of places overwhelmed by overtourism grows longer every day. Even Juneau, the capital of Alaska, will soon vote on whether to implement “ship-free Saturdays” to reduce the impact of cruise passengers. However, the majority of destinations need more tourists, not fewer. Inbound tourism is the closest thing any nation, resort, town or city… Read More »
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, guidance to address emergency food and nutrition needs is limited. However, existing literature offers ideas on how to effectively address emergency food and nutrition assistance. A position paper recently published by the Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour (SNEB) Journal of Nutrition Education… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances, and more. Fossil chromosomes have been found in a piece of woolly mammoth skin unearthed from the permafrost in Siberia, the first of its kind, according to new research. Researchers unearthed the 52,000-year-old remains in 2018 near… Read More »
Across the whole of Great Britain, there are an estimated 12 million adults living with hearing impairment or deafness. However, only 35,633 of these currently receive additional financial support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Participation Allowance or Adult Disability Payment (Scotland only). Currently, 8,616 people over State Pension age receive either a low rate of… Read More »
The great thing about canonical works is that you can do whatever you want to them — tear them apart, rearrange them, even mock them mercilessly — and they remain intact for the next generation to approve or slaughter. The same is true of Shakespeare’s vice-like tragedy Macbeth, here given a kind of rip-off by… Read More »
For years, Nike has been Louis Vuitton to everyone, building a world-class fashion business around a logo, a passion (in Nike’s case, a passion for sports), and a huge advertising budget. The asset giant spent $4.3 billion on “demand generation” last year alone — a 10-figure sum on “the costs of support contracts, complementary product,… Read More »
Switching to less processed foods does not guarantee a healthy diet; the type of food may be more important than the level of processing. Processed foods get a lot of negative attention, but when it comes to nutrition, that bad reputation isn’t entirely justified. In a recent study, researchers compared two diets: one emphasizing minimally… Read More »
HOUSTON (AP) — Sharon Carr was frustrated. Like many people left without power after Hurricane Beryl slammed into the Texas coast earlier this week, she headed to a cooling center in Houston to escape the summer heat, even as the city’s power company warned that it could take longer than expected for everyone’s power to… Read More »
Sailing from its home port of Southampton, P&O Cruises flies the British cruise flag with wallet-friendly holidays designed to suit UK tastes. It offers ‘no-flight’ cruises as well as affordable fly-by-night holidays to the Caribbean, Northern Europe, North America and the Mediterranean from London and nine regional airports. The line’s seven ships have Britons in… Read More »
According to a report published by the United Nations, fertility rates around the world are falling faster than expected and this seems likely to lead to a decline in the world population before the end of the century. More than 60 countries and regions, including Italy, Japan, Russia and China, reached their population peaks in… Read More »