What if I’m the bad tourist? How to go on vacation and try not to be part of the problem
Visiting friends, avoiding crowded places, or adapting to the unique characteristics of each city could be part of the solution
New cocaine trafficking methods: From stockpiling drugs until prices rise to using offshore drop-offs
Criminal groups are adopting new methods to smuggle drugs following recent crackdowns on large shipments at ports
The civil engineer who stopped a port from being built in Tenerife
Spaniard Carlos Mallo received the Goldman Prize this week, considered the Nobel Prize of environmentalism: ‘Tourism is the main factor damaging the islands’
The Beast’s environment: How a supermassive black hole shapes the fate of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, dragging space-time with it
The mystery of the Amazigh people in Gran Canaria, Spain
An exhibition at the country’s National Archeological Museum reveals the secrets of the Berber settlement on the island, while exploring the conquest of these pre-Hispanic peoples by the Crown of Castile in the 15th century
When movie and TV locations become hot travel destinations
People once looked to paintings and books for vacation ideas, but now tourism offices are capitalizing on the popularity of major film and television productions
Light pollution is weakening the world’s star-gazing telescopes
Artificial illumination is so bright now that astronomical observatories can no longer see celestial objects clearly
Centuries later, the legacy of European colonialism is still alive in the natural landscape
The British, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish empires standardized the vegetation of regions that were oceans apart and separated by thousands of miles
Get your rocks off: Tenerife calls time on stone towers left on beaches
Volunteers plan to remove hundreds of the man-made piles due to their negative impact on the environment, given that they threaten the island’s flora and fauna