Good news for green-inclined travelers today, online-travel giants Travelocity and Expedia are adding the option to balance out the greenhouse gases produced by flights, rental cars, even the average hotel stay, to their checkout pages.

The NYT asks “Is Qatar the Next Dubai?�- they’ve got man-made resort islands too! It seems like mere weeks ago, Dubai was the next Dubai. And the cannibalizing cycle of the “Next Big Thing� spirals on…

The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting, Machu Picchu is about to slide into the abyss, and tourists are carting off pieces of the temple at Luxor on a daily basis.

Jacques Cousteau progeny Jean-Michel has a new, glossy, HD series of his own underwater adventures, that debuted on PBS this week.