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The Traveler Review Awards, which Booking.com presents annually, honor travel destinations that provide the greatest overall travel experience.  To identify the world’s most welcoming city, the company examined over 309 million verified customer reviews for lodging in over 221 countries. The winner The charming seaside village of Arraial d’Ajuda in the Brazilian state of Bahia was declared victorious. One of the most affluent and international locations on the Brazilian coast is Arraial d’Ajuda. Condensed into the tiny village size, it is home to people from all over the world who first visited as ...... Read Full article on HadNews

There is a growing consensus that environmental problems, particularly the effects of climate change, pose a grave challenge to humanity. Pollution, habitat destruction, intractable waste issues and, for many, deteriorating quality of life should be added to the list. Economic growth is the chief culprit. We forget, though, that environmental impacts are a consequence of per capita consumption multiplied by the number of people doing the consuming. Our own numbers matter. Population growth threatens environments at global, national and regional scales. Yet the policy agenda either ignores human population, or fosters alarm when perf...... Read Full article on HadNews

2023 was the hottest year on record. Humidity is rising too. Heat and humidity are a dangerous combination, threatening all aspects of our lives and livelihoods. Climate change is pushing humid heat dangerously close to the upper limits of what people can survive. Parts of the world are on track for conditions beyond the limits of human tolerance. Yet our new research shows poor weather station coverage across the tropics leads to underestimates of heat stress in cities. This means global climate change assessments probably overlook the local impacts on people. Concentrated across tropical Asia and Africa, informal settlements, commo...... Read Full article on HadNews