Author name: Anna Ward

At its feet stretch the plains below the Umbrian village of Castelluccio, ironically named Pian Perduto—the Lost Plain. From late June to early July, the landscape turns into a living Monet during the famous ‘Fioritura di Castelluccio’, the ‘flowering of Castellucio’. During this annual show from nature, fields of lentils bloom alongside wild poppies, cornflowers, […]

The tragedy of Air India flight 171 has left many in shock, after the crash killed everyone on board bar one passenger, plus fatalities on the ground. While incidents on this scale are rare, it’s inevitable to feel increased anxiety and fear as a result. Science communicator Dr Hassan Vally puts the risk of plane travel

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Last year, thousands of people took to the streets across Europe in a spate of overtourism protests. Tourists were squirted with water pistols and frustrated protesters chanted “tourists go home.” The action was so significant that the BBC called it “the summer that tourism fell apart.”  And this weekend, it happened again.  Only this time

In South America’s remote southern pampas, local gauchos were once paid by farmers to kill pumas, a huge threat to livestock. Even illegalisation couldn’t stop the slaughter. But one woman has been instrumental in changing hearts and minds; a cultural shift that’s led to thriving puma numbers and a surge in tourism. Meet Pía Vergara.

On a railway route that’s survived against all odds, Ben Lerwill embarks on a journey along the 150-year-old Heart of Wales Line, combining train travel with hiking trails—and a dash of unpredictability. We’re somewhere between the tiny stations of Llanwrda and Llangadog when the two-carriage train I’m on shudders to a brief halt. It’s late

The islands of Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait, between Australia and Papua New Guinea, are under threat. If urgent action isn’t taken to mitigate the impacts of climate change, they may become uninhabitable within 30 years, forcing locals to leave the home they’ve cared for thousands of years.  Sea Country—Malu Lag, a new short film by Patagonia,

Some six thousand miles from her home, a young girl of 15 prepared for her first show in the newly opened San Diego SeaWorld. Wearing the traditional white diving dress of her home village in the Kii Peninsula region on Japan’s main island of Honshu, she plunged into a deep pool in the ‘Japanese Village’,