Climate Change, Environmental Threats, India
Gaia Discovery Web Editor
Warming Himalayas Drying Up Highest Village

KOMIK, India - The main water sources in the world's highest village in the Himalayas are drying up due to global warming, making life harder for its inhabitants who rely mainly on subsistence farming.

Warming Himalayas Drying Up Highest Village
Beaches, Travel, India, Seychelles, Scuba Diving, geotourism
Gaia Discovery Web Editor
The Indian Traveller in Seychelles

The Seychelles Tourism Board, local and Indian trade partners meet to explore the tourism potential of Seychelles for Indian travellers. Beaches, weddings, snorkelling are popular in Seychelles.

The Indian Traveller in Seychelles

Mantanani Arkitrek Camp: Connecting Tomorrow’s Architects with the Real, Renewable World

Mantanani is a remote island northwest of Kota Belud in the South China Sea, off the coast of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Last month it saw a group of keen architecture students working through an innovative three-week design challenge to build a village centre using recycled and renewable resources.

Thailand’s Green Routes Boost Eco-tourism, Sustainability Standards

Travellers looking for an eco holiday in Thailand can opt for specially planned environmentally-friendly tours, from central Thailand to the northern tribal enclaves of Chiang Mai, and from Chiang Rai to Isaan in the northeast region.

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Shangri-La Bangkok Installs Largest Ever Hotel Solar Heating System

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Solar water heating wins all round by providing piping hot showers for over 800 guests at Bangkok’s Shangri-La hotel – plus it costs less and cuts greenhouse gases too.

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Thai Tourism Seven Green Concepts: Green Direction by Tourism Authority of Thailand

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New green initiative boosts Seven Green Concepts, conservancy and social responsibility in its 2011 policy from Tourism Authority of Thailand.

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Krabi’s Centara Resort Sustainability Review: Green Globe From Bronze to Gold

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Krabi’s Centara Resort Sustainability Review: Green Globe From Bronze to Gold

Krabi’s Centara is just one of the few hotel and chain resorts under Centara’s portfolio to undergo a green wave of change by participating in a global benchmarking scheme through Green Globe to attain sustainability and promote awareness with its employees and stakeholders. The other four properties to also do so are Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld, Sofitel Centara Grand Resort & Villa Hua Hin, Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui and Centara Karon Resort Phuket. 

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Gaia Discovery Partners Big Bubble for Coral Reef Restoration With Biorock® Technology

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Gaia Discovery is embarking on a series of environmental projects in Southeast Asia, starting with coral gardening and assisted reef restoration programmes. It seeks the participation of scuba divers from around the world to join its scheduled group trips beginning 14 May 2011.

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Timor Leste: Easy to Get-To, Unspoilt Ecotourism Destination

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Travelling to Timor Leste is like travelling back in time to a less frantic age. But getting there is a cinch now that regular air services have started fro Changi, Singapore.

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Timor-Leste First Adventure Race Through Dili, Christu Rei, Dare to Comoro – with Sweat!

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Timor-Leste’s first Adventure Race (2010) included goats, bikes, bridges, canoes and carts. But the one-day race offered sights, sounds and smells that were uniquely Timorese.

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Disabled Scuba Divers in Senang Hati, Bali Overcome Stereotype Prejudices

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Avandy Djunaidi is the owner of Bali International Dive Professionals, a scuba diving operation in Sanur, Bali. And together with the Senang Hati (Happy Heart) Foundation he is inspiring a change in local attitudes towards the disabled in Indonesia.

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Bali International School Helps Victims of Mount Merapi Eruption and Indonesian Earthquakes

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Bali International School pupils used their love of fashion and rock music to help make a difference and to raise funds to send help to Indonesian victims of recent eruptions and earthquakes on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. Katyi Denham reports.

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Arkitrek Camp, An Architecture Summer School, To Design and Build In Borneo

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Arkitrek Camp, an architecture summer school in Malaysian Borneo is now taking applications for a three-week camp in May 2011. The camp is aimed at developing young architects’ skills and experience. Malaysia-based British architect Ian Hall, director of Arkitrek is working together with volunteer organisation Camps International for hands-on design and construction in the environmentally and culturally-sensitive Malaysian state of Sabah.

 

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