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...But a martini, with its mid-century Manhattan associations, is the right match for the architecture. And, as it happens, the one served there comes as close to my ideal than any I’ve ever had....
...France, which colonised the island in 1896, accelerated environmental destruction by expropriating the best farmland, forcing rice farmers up the slopes on to unsustainable land....
...Only one who had crossed a continent could report, as Rasmussen did, that a youth in Greenland would recognise a tale told by a grandfather on the northern slope of Alaska, just as that elder would know...
...The morning sun rises slowly over the slope of the fells, spotlighting the craggy surface blanketed in frosted bracken....
...He has since worked with various public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the American Public Gardens Association....
...Since then, the white demersal fish native to the Atlantic has been one of Iceland's most important exports, and the UK one of its biggest consumers....
...Details Pico Iyer was a guest of the Alaska Travel Industry Association and Explore Fairbanks....
...Scrambling up the stony slopes of a Swiss Alpine hillside just before midnight, Jean-Marc Landry is on a mission. Guard dogs bark as we climb over a low, electrified fence....
...On the outskirts overlooking Lake Wakatipu is Azur Lodge, nine cabins (or villas, as they prefer to be known) sprinkled down a steep slope....
...Wistman’s Wood is a rare example of a native high-altitude oak wood consisting mainly of pedunculate or English oak (Quercus robur)....
...As the Arctic warms, this temperature differential is reducing and the jet stream weakening....
...Greenlanders dream that the seabed beyond its northern coast might one day yield hydrocarbons to rival the riches on the slopes of Alaska....
...Surely architecture, with its history, its language, its associations, its embodied memories, must be more than problem-solving?...
...So it was great to get back on the slopes and come away injury-free! Have you ever had a great idea on holiday? Lots of Virgin companies have been dreamt up on holidays....
...The Olympic meadows will comprise colourful fields of annual flowers (exotic and native) and separate areas of native wildflowers that will be cut about six weeks before the games so that they regrow and...
...Wary of both global grandstanding and association with failure, David Cameron chose not to be represented at all....
...There might be no raindancing but the accommodation at first suggests all the dread associations many have with camping: long, damp and sleepless nights on hard ground....
...Winter in Yellowstone is just as impressive, but much quieter (except, of course for the tinny roar of your Arctic Cat four-stroke engine)....
...From the National Trust car park, the path ascends 900ft along the eastern side of the gorge, whose sheltered microclimate nurtures plants usually found only in the Arctic....
...As the leader of a small native Indian community in the remote and lawless mountains on Venezuela’s north-western border with Colombia, Mr Romero heartily approves of the president’s apparently pro-indigenous...
...“The Shenzhen Lawyers Association is like a father, and its lawyers are like brothers and sisters,” said Lai....
...“Why has Arctic sea ice recovered partially in the last two years?” he asks. “What does this mean for the ‘tipping point’ that people talk of?”...
...The 29-year-old, a postgraduate music student, started boxing two years ago while studying at university in her native Germany....
...Fifty per cent of visitors are native Norwegians – many come up from Oslo for the weekend, just two hours to the south....
...With arctic winters, the Finger Lakes is still essentially white wine country....
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