| Backpacking Made Easy, With 4-Footed Friends For a family camping in Colorado’s backcountry, llamas act as playmates, guards and furry 325-pound porters to lighten the load. travel.nytimes.com |
King of the Playground When you think about it, the Rockwell Group has been in the business of playgrounds for years, creating a showy interior for a glamorous jeweler, a JetBlue terminal and Nobu restaurants from New York to Dubai. So the Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, which opens next summer in a former parking lot near South Street Seaport, is a logical next step. The peanut-shaped park is inspired by midcentury adventure playgrounds, where children used found objects and postwar debris. It features sand ... nytimes.com |
A Celebrated Scout Camp on Staten Island Is in Jeopardy Financial woes may force the sale of Camp Pouch, 140 acres where generations have learned to rough it. nytimes.com |
Put Vendors in Their Place The right of the people to assemble, pass unmolested and enjoy the view was never meant to be trumped by the right of commercial vendors. nytimes.com |
How Much Global Warming Is Guaranteed Even If We Stopped Building Coal-Fired Power Plants Today? Humanity has yet to reach the point of no return when it comes to catastrophic climate change, according to new calculations. If we content ourselves with the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure we can hold greenhouse gas concentrations below 450 parts per million in the atmosphere and limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels--both common benchmarks for international efforts to avoid the worst impacts of ongoing climate change--according to a new analysis in the September 10 issue of Science . The bad news is we are adding more fossil-fuel infrastructure--oil-burning cars, coal-fired power plants, industrial factories consuming natural gas--every day. [More] Climate change - Fossil fuel power station - Environment - Global warming - Natural gas rss.sciam.com |