London (Global Adventures): Studying the rising acid levels in the Arctic Ocean that potentially threatens marine life is the main focus of the Catlin Arctic Survey 2010. British polar explorer Pen Hadow, Director of the mission, said it will begin in early March and take scientists to an Ice Base 750 miles from the North [...]

Newton (Global Adventures): Americans expect to travel more in 2010 than in 2009. Forty-one percent of U.S. respondents said they plan to spend more on leisure travel in 2010 than they did in 2009 and 92 percent of travelers are planning to take two or more leisure trips in the coming year, up from 89 [...]

Albania (Global Adventures): An international team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of the bow of HMS Volage, a British destroyer that struck a mine off the Albanian port of Saranda on October 22, 1946. In July 2007, the RPM Nautical Foundation, a U.S. and Malta-based not-for-profit organization, began a comprehensive, ongoing archaeological survey of [...]

Florida (Global Adventures): A NACD workshop will focus on basic skills to survey and gather data with a goal to produce a finished map by the end of the weekend. Participants will also learn how to enter data into a cave survey program to get a line plot. The workshop will run on the weekend [...]