Here’s how the station’s chef keeps scientists fed and happy in one of the world’s most remote places. And there could be plenty more where that came from, as a new global mission has since been launched to discover 100,000 previously unknown marine species.įondue and raclette are the warming comfort foods on the menu at the Princess Elisabeth polar research station in East Antarctica, the coldest region on Earth. Beatriz Flamini said of the experiment, which was conducted 230 feet (70 meters) underground and monitored by scientists, “It’s not that the time passes quickly or more slowly, simply that it doesn’t pass.” When you’re deprived of daylight, it’s always four in the morning.Īlso this month, a species of snailfish was discovered more than 27,000 feet (8,336 meters) below the water’s surface in an ocean trench off Japan. “It’s not easy to knock down an important structure.”Īnd in the little town of Irsina in the southern Basilicata region, more than 300 non-Italians from North America and across Europe, have helped revived this once dying community by taking over dilapidated properties.Ī Spanish woman spent 500 days alone in a cave so you don’t have to. “The amazing thing in Italy is that they really preserve old buildings,” says Doug. Massachusetts couple Doug and Leah Johnson renovated a 14th-century apartment in the town of Vasanello in Lazio that they bought for less than $14,000. With Italy seemingly awash with gorgeous, stone-built homes in need of a little TLC, it feels like these days you’re never more than 10 feet from an American with a measuring tape. Incredible Italian home makeovers, jaw-dropping marine discoveries and ritzy new trains in Scotland and Taiwan: We’ve got all this and more in our latest roundup of news and features from CNN Travel.
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