Washington, DC (Global Adventures): The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a five-year, $2.2 billion plan to revitalize the Great Lakes, including cleaning up polluted water and beaches, restoring wetlands and fighting invasive species such as Asian carp. At the end of last year, Congress authorized $475 million to be spent on improving the ecosystem that [...]

Cochrane (Global Adventures): A man from Cochrane, Canada, will try to run 250 marathons and raise $250,000 for a charity in 2010. Martin Parnell, an ultra-marathon runner, says that he was inspired by Dean Karnazes who ran 50 marathons in 50 days across 50 U.S. states, and Larry Macon, a sixty-four year old lawyer from [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): The United States takes the top-spot in the fifth annual Futurebrand Country Brand Index (CBI). The Index polls approximately 3,000 business and leisure travelers from nine countries. It also considers expert opinions and compares statistics and global data from 102 countries across 29 image attributes and seven measures of brand strength.
Brand USA [...]

White Plains (Global Adventures): It does not get much cheaper than free – Sheraton offers a free night stay at 86 locations in the US and Canada to drum up business. The massive campaign that starts tonight is intended to highlight the chain’s $6 billion revitalization efforts, according to a press release.
The free stay is [...]

France (Global Adventures): Accor confirmed that it did sell 158 Formule-1 hotels for 272 Million Euro ($401.6 Million) to an international investment consortium.  Europe’s largest hospitality group also confirmed that it will continue to manage the budget hotels and has signed a 12 year lease contract.
Accor ventured into the budget market more than 25 years [...]

London (Global Adventures): Average daily rates (ADR) charged in hotels around the world did fall on average 17 percent in the first 6 months of 2009, according to Hotel Price Index (HPI), published by hotel.com, an Expedia company. This brings rack-rates almost back to 2004 levels, which were only 1 percent higher than rates charged [...]

Arctic (Global Adventures): After discovering a “… unusual underwater mountain on the Arctic sea floor,” the race is on again for Canada and the United States to renew claims that their boundaries extend beyond their existing 200-nautical-mile economic zones, granted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Many countries including Russia [...]

Greenland (Global Adventures): Researchers in Greenland are looking into whether or not one of the world’s largest species of sharks could be a source of bio-fuel for the native Inuit population. The Greenland shark causes problems for fishermen, with thousands of them dying in nets off of Greenland every year, the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper reports.
While [...]