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Showcasing Hawaiian Cultural Heritage to tourists

April 11, 2022397 Views

Outrigger Reef in Waikiki comes up with a new cultural centre Partnership with the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Bishop Museum, artists Kamea Hadar, Marques Hanalei Marzan and others shows the archipelago’s rich culture in a contemporary manner Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort has unveiled its new A’o Cultural Center and a renewed commitment to Hawaiian heritage as part of its US$80 million transformation, which is nearly complete. The A’o Cultural Center at the lobby level features a collection of art pieces such as a model outrigger canoe, paddles, conch shells and traditional feather lei. The adjacent Herb Kane Lounge has also been updated with a new open-concept design and a conceptual woven map of the Hawaiian Islands by renowned rope artist Marques Hanalei Marzan. ...

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US scraps COVID warning for cruise travel after 2 years

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March 31, 2022307 Views

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday removed its COVID-19 notice against cruise travel, around two years after introducing a warning scale showing the level of coronavirus transmission risk on cruise ships. The move offers a shot of hope to major U.S. cruise operators such as Carnival Corp, Royal Caribbean Group and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd that have struggled to bring in revenue since the pandemic started. FILE PHOTO: The Norwegian Getaway and the Norwegian Pearl cruise ships are seen docked at Miami port, after Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd cancelled sailings amid rising fears of Omicron-related coronavirus infections, in Miami, Florida, U.S. January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello Cruise operators had also said the health agency wa...

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After pandemic peace, fresh swarms of crabs invade Cuba´s Bay of Pigs

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March 27, 2022878 Views

Migrating crabs around Cuba´s Bay of Pigs have emerged early and in unprecedented swarms, according to local residents, following two years of pandemic that allowed them to cross normally trafficked roadways and reproduce in peace. After the island´s spring rains begin, millions of red, yellow and black landcrabs emerge at dawn and dusk and march from the forest across the road and down to the bay on Cuba's southern coast to spawn in the sea. A car drives over migrating crabs as they are marching from the forest across the road and down to the bay to spawn in the sea, following two years of pandemic, around the Bay of Pigs, in Playa Larga, Cuba March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer Most years, untold thousands fall victim to the tires of passing motorists. But for the past two years, ...

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Migrants from south carrying maize were early Maya ancestors

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March 25, 2022336 Views

New research published this week by University of New Mexico archaeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. According to the paper South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region, published this week in Nature Communications and co-led by Prufer, excavations in Belize, along with ancient DNA analysis, indicate a previously unknown migration of people–carrying maize–from an area of South America northward to the Maya region. Scientists excavate findings at the Belize Rock Shelter Site. Prufer and his colleagues excavated 25 burials dating from 10,000 to 3,700 years ago from two cave or rock shelter sites located in the rem...

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Women’s History Month art event honors the eco-feminist artist Mira Lehr

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March 21, 2022822 Views

Featuring all new works by Lehr never exhibited before, on view now through April 20 in Miami In the 1950s in New York, Mira Lehr was a trailblazer in the male-dominated art scene while raising a young family. Now, in her sixth decade of artmaking and at the bold age of 87, Mira Lehr is the subject of an art exhibition honoring Women's History Month at the Kimpton EPIC Hotel Miami that continues through April 20th. She is creating more new work now than ever before, and inspiring new generations. When Lehr moved from New York to Miami in 1961, Lehr was shocked at how women artists were treated so she founded one of the country's first artist collectives for women. It was called Continuum, and it thrived in Miami for 35 years. Lehr's visionary leadership is celebrated as a precursor ...

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World’s most beautiful endangered snail crowned Mollusc of the Year 2022

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March 19, 20221231 Views

Results are out! The Cuban Painted Snail has won an international competition – and will now have its DNA blueprint unravelled and the key to its beauty unlocked, potentially helping to protect this iconic species from extinction. Scientists in the UK and Cuba have been campaigning for the eye-catching snail to be crowned winner of the Mollusc of the Year 2022 – an international public vote led by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (TBG) and the Worldwide Society for Mollusc Research. Orange form of Polymita picta, Photo: Adrián González Guillén There were five finalists in the competition - three snails, one mussel and a tusk shell or scaphopod. The Painted Snail won with a staggering 10,092 votes, taking 62...

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U.S. fires four times larger, three times more frequent since 2000

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March 17, 2022733 Views

New analysis confirms a palpable change in fire dynamics already suspected by many Fires have gotten larger, more frequent and more widespread across the United States since 2000, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder-led paper. Recent wildfires have stoked concern that climate change is causing more extreme events, and the work published today in Science Advances shows that large fires have not only become more common, they are also spreading into new areas, impacting land that previously did not burn. “Projected changes in climate, fuel and ignitions suggest that we’ll see more and larger fires in the future. Our analyses show that those changes are already happening,” said Virginia Iglesias, a research scientist with CU Boulder’s Earth Lab and lead author of the paper...

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Russians vanish from Cuba beaches, casting doubt on tourism recovery

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March 11, 2022979 Views

When planeloads of Russian tourists left Cuba this week, their vacations interrupted by war in Ukraine, it marked a sad day in the resort town of Varadero, a visible sign the conflict will rattle the island nation's fragile economy. Varadero, a finger of white sand extending out into the blue Caribbean sea, has long been a magnet for Russians fleeing the northern winter. In 2021, with much of the world hunkered down amid the coronavirus pandemic, visitors from Russia soared to 40% of total arrivals in Cuba, according to government figures. Tourists sunbathe at the beach in Varadero, Cuba, March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli Varadero's beaches, usually teeming with tourists at this time of year, are suddenly quiet, said Yanet Costafreda, who sells trinkets to tourists along...

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With a nod to climate change, Alaska’s Iditarod marks its 50th running

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March 5, 2022296 Views

Every year since 1973, Alaska has celebrated the virtues of perseverance and fortitude by hosting the Iditarod, a 1,000-mile (1,610-km) dog sled race across the state's frozen wilderness that pushes its participants to the limits of endurance. But Alaska is much less frozen than it was 50 years ago. The state has warmed at more than twice the global rate, altering the Anchorage-to-Nome race along with nearly every aspect of life in the far north. "Alaska is a bit of a poster child for global warming," said Rob Urbach, chief executive of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, which holds its traditional ceremonial start in Alaska's largest city on Saturday. Nearly 50 mushers and their dogs have registered to compete in the race. The Joe Redington Sr. Memorial Trail, named for the homestea...

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Cuban women emerge from shadows to promote body art

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March 3, 2022873 Views

Once seen as taboo, it is slowly getting more acceptability in the society An eclectic group of Cuban women brandishing tattoos has emerged from the shadows on the insular, communist-run island, pushing the boundaries of a legal vacuum and leveraging the internet to promote an ancient art that has only recently become common again in Cuba. The nearly 200-member woman´s association, called Erias, was founded in July 2021, and is the first to actively and openly promote body art on the island, a practice for decades considered taboo in Cuba, especially among women. Women with tattoos pose for a selfie in Havana, Cuba, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli While tattoos themselves are not illegal in Cuba, the island's traditional "machista" culture has long stygmatized the ...