Menlo Park (Global Adventures): Cyclists in 150 cities in the US can now use Google maps to plane their routes. The new feature introduced by Google gives step-by-step directions. Bike-friendly roads, trails and bike lanes show up as a new layer and are outlined directly on the map. Users can simply enter a starting point, [...]

Stockholm (Global Adventures): 12 well preserved shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a gas consortium building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany. While most of the ships are from the 17th and 18th centuries, some of them are believed to be up to 1,000 years old, the Swedish National Heritage Board [...]

Orkney (Global Adventures): Scapa Flow is best known as the site of the United Kingdom’s chief naval base during World War I and World War II. The huge body of water is sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. The base was reinforced with minefields, artillery, and concrete barriers starting [...]

Amsterdam (Global Adventures): A Dutch undercover journalist did expose a new loophole in airport security, the German magazine “Der Spiegel” reports. Alberto Stegeman has managed to carry on what could have been liquid explosives through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport security. On February 16, he boarded a British Midland Airways Limited plan at Schiphol, traveled to London [...]

Gramat (Global Adventures): With thousands of known caves, France is one of the premier cave diving areas in the world. If a region stands out, it is an area between the rivers of Lot and Dordogne in the southwest of France. The upper valley of the Dordogne is a series of deep gorges. The cliffs, [...]

Siberia (Global Adventures): Huge quantities of Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are bubbling from the seabed north of Siberia. Scientist from Russia, the U.S. and Sweden suspect that the permafrost, a thick layer of soil that remains frozen all year, is “destabilizing.”
“The amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is [...]

Germany (Global Adventures): The Aachtopf is Germany’s biggest natural spring, producing an average of 8,500 liters per second. Production varies seasonally and in response to the weather, but the spring never runs dry. The Aachtopf is a karst spring which is located south of the western end of the Swabian Jura, near the town Aach. [...]

Argostoli (Global Adventures): Cephalonia Island is home to picturesque towns such as Lassi and Fiscardo, the famous Myrtos (or Mirtos) Beach, and the Drogarati cave. Cephalonia is named after the mythological figure Cephalus and part of the lonian Islands on the western edge of Greece. Surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the island offers superb diving [...]