“All Creatures Great and Small” charmed viewers with its pastoral setting in Britain’s Yorkshire Dales. Here, the show’s production designer explains the eternal appeal of the region’s landscapes. Photographs by Tom Jamieson By Jennifer Vineyard Feb. 26, 2021 “All Creatures Great and Small,” a new adaptation of the James Herriot books, follows the gentle adventures…
Passengers on board a United Airlines flight from Denver to Honolulu had several moments of terror on Feb. 20 when their plane, a Boeing 777-200, experienced a right-engine failure shortly after takeoff, causing a massive bang and sending debris raining down over a quiet Denver suburb. Passengers captured video, much of it shared on social…
Tomorrow’s Air, a new climate action group incubated by the Adventure Travel Trade Association, is taking a different tack, both technologically and socially. It champions carbon removal and storage, as done by the Swiss company Climateworks — an expensive process that filters carbon dioxide from the air, sometimes injecting it underground in basalt rock, where…
A Sprawling Complex Outside Santo Domingo $2.5 MILLION This 12.5-acre property drapes over the peak of a sweeping mountain range in rural Pedro Brand, a northwestern suburb of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The complex, known as Compostela del Camino, includes a five-bedroom, seven-bath main house, a separate three-bedroom house for staff…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher and political iconoclast who inspired and nurtured generations of San Francisco artists and writers from City Lights, his famed bookstore, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 101. The cause was interstitial lung disease, his daughter, Julie Sasser, said. The spiritual godfather of the Beat movement,…
Nine-year-old Dastan, the son of a Kazakh eagle hunter, rode his pony alongside mine, cantering effortlessly without a saddle and giggling at my attempts to show my fluffy pony some affection — a gesture that the animal wasn’t accustomed to. Surrounding us was the vast, desolate landscape of the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia. From…
Two avalanche warnings have been issued for parts of Washington and Oregon as heavier-than-usual rainfall and snowfall is expected to hit part of the West Coast through Monday. One of the warnings, a Level 4 on a scale of 5, said there was a high avalanche danger for parts of North Cascades National Park by…
A United Airlines flight with 241 people on board experienced engine failure over Broomfield, Colo., on Saturday afternoon, shedding debris across three neighborhoods before landing safely in Denver, the authorities said. There were no injuries reported, officials said. The flight, No. 328, took off from Denver International Airport at 12:15 p.m. local time, said Alex…
It was “a year of going through hell” for United Airlines. Delta Air Lines had “the toughest year” in its history. And for American Airlines it was “the most challenging year.” That’s how the executives who run those companies described 2020 in recent weeks. The airline industry is eager to move on, but it hasn’t…
Even during a normal year, Jacqueline Kim, a stay-at-home mother of two in Encinitas, Calif., is pretty bullish about making travel plans to national parks. She researches trails and sites, and logs on to the websites right when reservations open up. “Six months ahead, I book it, because I know exactly where I want to…