Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability…
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability…
From late February to early April each year, the Platte River Valley of south-central Nebraska is a stopover point for the largest crane gathering in the world. A half…
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and wild places, named Costa Rica as the first whole country to receive its Natural Biogem Award. Chosen…
For most people, the word “safari” conjures images of stalking Africa’s Big Five in an open air Land Cruiser. And for good reason: safaris have their origins in eastern Africa. …
Beach in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica In honor of Valentine’s Day this week, Travel and Leisure posted their Top 20 List of Waterfront Romantic Getaways. Reefs to Rockies agrees…
Born on the same day 200 years ago, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln changed the world forever. We can’t say that Darwin invented the notion of evolution any more than…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ces82gGH_lM] As I’m sitting down to write this, millions and millions of monarchs are congregated in the oyamel forests on several mountaintops in central Mexico. The monarchs began arriving in…
One of the things you may notice while traveling through Mexico is that the locals love their sweets. The prominence of dulcerias (candy stores) and heladerias (ice cream parlors) is…
Just 40 km northeast of Mexico City lies the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, the largest pre-Hispanic city in the western hemisphere. The city was inhabited from 100 BC to 700 AD and…