Battlesteads in the village of Wark-on-Tyne, near Hexham, Northumberland, was crowned the Best Pub in Britain in the Great British Pub of the Year Awards 2010, held in London. What’s more, the popular pub-hotel also picked up the title of Best Green Pub 2010! Licensees Richard and Dee Slade saw off stiff competition from pubs […]
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Where can you look for diamonds, go ice fishing, and play golf 24 hours a day? Easy! It’s Northwest Territories (NWT). Since the discovery of diamonds in 1991 NWT operates three diamond mines, which makes it the diamond capital of North America, and yet with area covering 1,140,835 sq km and a population of 41,464 […]
Read MoreThis weekend I volunteered at the local small cinema during the first few screenings of the documentary by David Suzuki, entitled “Force of Nature”, to generate viewer support for the David Suzuki Foundation. The film is a winner of the People’s Choice Documentary Award in the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, showcasing 339 films from […]
Read MoreDid you know parts of our ocean contain more plastic than plankton?! About 1300 kilometres North of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean on the Eastern corner of a 13-billion-hectare oval known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, lies a stretch of ocean which is avoided by most boats and top predators, alike. These waters look […]
Read MorePapua, New Guinea is perhaps one of the last unexplored land areas in the world. The remote rainforests on this small island are known for their last indigenous cannibal tribes, some of which date to as early as 40,000 B.C. Scientists propose the first human settlement on the island could date back to 60,000 years […]
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