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Byline: Steve NewmanI'm standing on a carpet of spongy tundra listening to one of the expedition team as he explains what to do if we encounter a polar bear.This health [...]

Byline: Steve Newman Historically, port wine was matured and bottled in the small town of Vila Nova de Gaia, which lies on the opposite bank to where I sit toasting [...]

Byline: Steve Newman This year marks the centenary of Roald Amundsen's trek to the South Pole, and also the 150th anniversary of the birth of another polar explorer, Fridtjof Nansen. [...]

Byline: Steve Newman It--s the start of the pantomime season and you need to get your children, their friends and/or grandparents to the theatre. With that in mind, you really [...]

Byline: Steve Newman 'You do realise that the only thing between us and the jaws of a great white shark is a piece of string?' observed my fellow passenger. Until [...]

Byline: Steve Newman The sun washed the rooftops with a golden glow as we slipped gently out of Bergen harbour on the evening tide. I was on a Hurtigruten Norwegian [...]

Byline: Steve Newman The problem with buying a 4x4 vehicle is that manufacturers are constantly introducing new or updated models, or else joining the sector for the first time. Even [...]

Presents information about the discoveries related to nature, as reported on July 5, 1995. Hatching of a penguin egg by two male strokes in a German zoo; Threat to crops in Somalia from various pests warned by UN; Clouds of cannabis pollens in southern Spain due to bumper crop of hemp, as told by scientists at Cardoba University; More.