The world’s best hostels get their moment in the spotlight with the booking site’s annual awards. This year honours go to Madrid, St Petersburg and Galway. Julian Worker has written a number of travel books including Travels through History : France Travels through History – The Balkans: Journeys in the former Yugoslavia Travels through HistoryContinue reading “How accommodating! Hostelworld reveals its best budget stays with the 2018 ‘Hoscars’”
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Best photos of the day: cat show and candlelight protest
A selection of photo highlights from around the world, including Las Fallas in Valencia, Somalia famine and retired circus bears
How climate change battles are increasingly being fought, and won, in court
Around the world courts are stepping in when politicians fail to act, with South Africa’s government the latest to lose a groundbreaking climate lawsuit with judges ruling against its plans for a new coal-fired power station
Heathrow aims to make third runway carbon neutral
Plan also targets local air and noise pollution but critics say long-term solutions to environmental challenges are no closer to reality
‘Shell knew’: oil giant’s 1991 film warned of climate change danger
Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics
Expect to see more emergencies like Oroville Dam in a hotter world
Scientists predicted decades ago that climate change would add stress to water management systems like Oroville Dam
Scientists to repeat 19th-century ship’s crossing of polar ice cap
Ambitious Mosaic expedition will study weather patterns and life in melt ponds from vessel drifting with the ice current
What will be the big environment events in 2017?
From air pollution to Trump and wildlife extinction, we look at the major environmental issues for the year ahead
Best photos of the day: a baby orangutan and a beard competition
The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including the death of Fidel Castro and Thailand’s monkey festival
The Hopping Race, Trevelez, Spain
This is an extract from the book Sports the Olympics Forgot Trevelez is a beautiful village in the Sierra Nevada mountains just to the south-east of Granada. This village is situated around 1,500 metres above sea level, making it the highest in Spain. Some of the streets in the village are narrow and others areContinue reading “The Hopping Race, Trevelez, Spain”
