Week of July 25th
Intelligent Travel offers up a host of interesting travel tidbits, but even we admit that our cup runneth over when it comes to fascinating facts. So we've compiled a weekly roundup of the things we've found on the web, and share them with you.
North America
-The town of Rock Port, Missouri, is to be powered entirely by wind. [Environment & wildlife]
-A 29-mile stretch of the Mississippi waterway around New Orleans was closed off, following the collision between a chemical tanker and a fuel barge. [Global news & trivia]
-Cave experts have recently surveyed Snowy River, part of Fort Stanton Cave Study Project in New Mexico. Made of calcite crystals, the "river" is thought to be the longest continuous cave formation in the world. [Global news & trivia]
-A U.S./Australian think tank, including high-profile environmentalists, has proposed a simple plan to halt deforestation in the world's tropical forests. [Environment & wildlife]
-The next big thing in medical tourism? The latest trend in the U.S., particularly in Chicago, Beverly Hills, and New York, is to have ones bridesmaids undergo cosmetic intervention en masse as part of the wedding package. [Global news & trivia]
-A wildfire has forced the evacuation of residents near California's Yosemite National Park. [Global news & trivia]
-New DNA research indicates that the wild horses of North America—believed to be an introduced species—are actually native to the continent, suggesting that they, too, should enjoy protection as a form of native wildlife. [Environment & wildlife]
Latin America
-Biologists and community members of Playa Junquillal, Costa Rica, are interfering to save the leatherback sea turtles, whose population is only an estimated 5,000 in the Pacific (a 95 percent drop since 1980). [Environment & wildlife]
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