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TripAdvisor will no longer sell tickets to attractions that breed, import or capture whales, dolphins, porpoises and other cetaceans for public display, the company announced on Wednesday. The move will ban sales to attractions and events at parks and aquariums worldwide, including SeaWorld, which has locations in Florida and California, Loro Parque in Spain and […]

A senior Boeing engineer filed an internal ethics complaint this year saying that during the development of the 737 Max jet the company had rejected a safety system to minimize costs, equipment that he felt could have reduced risks that contributed to two fatal crashes. Boeing has provided the complaint, which was reviewed by The

There are no lines on the road — and very few paved roads to paint a line on. There are no chains and no commercialization. There is no A.T.M., no restaurant open year-round, and the first police station is currently under construction. Here, visitors are guests, not tourists. I stayed in Ms. Matas’s homestead property

In another sign that California condors are making a comeback in the wild three decades after nearing the brink of extinction, a condor chick left its nest and made its first attempt at flight in Utah’s Zion National Park. Visitors last week saw the park’s first successful hatchling stretch its wings and stumble out of

In less than one year, the sporting world will descend on Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games. An estimated 600,000 overseas visitors are expected to flock to the Japanese capital and surrounding regions, and the Games — as they are every four years — will be an endurance test of planning and

A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to dismiss lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a 2017 decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in Utah. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan’s written decisions issued Monday night means the legal challenges seeking to return the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to their

Along with taking in the beautiful sights, tasting the local cuisine and immersing yourself in the culture, meeting new people is one of the most exciting and enriching parts of travel. But for some, making friends as an adult can be an awkward, uncomfortable and, quite frankly, scary undertaking. “As a former introvert-turned-extrovert thanks to

“To my mom’s credit she said, ‘That’s fine, do what you love; you have my support,’” said Mr. Yip, who went on to get a masters of architecture and an M.B.A. at the Georgia Institute of Technology before starting work at an architecture and design firm in Atlanta. “I was working 80 hours a week

George Dimopoulos, 72, remembers when the sea was a lot closer to the site of his car dealership. But that was before Athens’s coastal highway was constructed, a raised six-lane artery carrying traffic between Athens and the port of Piraeus, cutting off access to the water and leaving a large expanse of fallow terrain on

When Aziza Chaouni was a girl, she spent holidays with her grandmothers at Sidi Harazem, a thermal bath complex built next to an ancient magnesium-rich spring about seven miles east of Fez, Morocco. One grandmother loved the new complex, designed by Jean-François Zevaco and completed in 1960, soon after Moroccan independence. “She was born and