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Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026 and is now cruising a million miles to L2 — carrying a 300.8-megapixel camera that will map the sky a thousand times faster than Hubble and beam home 1.4 terabytes of data every day.
More than 1,500 tourism neighbours — hoteliers, farmers, students and non-profits — gathered at Angsana Laguna Phuket on September 7 for PHIST 2026, a free full-day summit on keeping the Andaman coast thriving.
A Phang Nga village of 500 people whose mangrove forest absorbed the 2004 tsunami now teaches mangrove co-management to visiting communities — including 20 representatives from Koh Panyee in February 2026.
From queen conchs wearing sensor backpacks in Grand Cayman to an 18,000-year-old conch horn that still plays real notes, scientists are discovering that shells are among the ocean's most faithful record-keepers.
On Thai Mueang Beach, rangers, villagers and hotels guard one of Earth's rarest nests. Discover how the Phang Nga coast carries leatherback hatchlings to the sea — and how you can help.
A NOAA expedition is live-streaming free daily ROV dives from 2,000 to 6,000 metres deep around American Samoa until September 17, 2026 — and every byte of data will become public.
From September 14–18, 2026, Phuket's second Ganesh Chaturthi Festival fills Old Town with processions and sacred drums — ending with a sunset Ganesha immersion at Rawai Beach. Here is the day-by-day guide.
For centuries Europe treasured narwhal tusks as unicorn horns. Now six of these "sea unicorns," fitted with satellite sensors, have mapped the deepest winters of the world's largest fjord system — logging 2,060 dives and collecting data ships can never reach.
From September 14 to 18, 2026, the second Phuket Ganesh Chaturthi Festival fills Rawai and Phuket Old Town with processions, sacred drumming, a 56-dish food offering, and a sunset immersion at Rawai Beach — and everyone is welcome.
Designers are trading mass-produced beach trinkets for artisanal shell art, richer wood tones and hand-crafted texture in 2026 — a return to a centuries-old craft the French call coquillage, with four practical moves you can try at home.
Thailand's new 10+10 MICE Adventure campaign is putting kayaks, mud crabs, GI pineapples and elephant baths on the official business-travel agenda — and routing the income to village hands along Phang Nga Bay.
Donald Duck Bay on Phang Nga's Similan Islands just placed 10th on The World's 50 Best Beaches 2026 — and the national park reopens October 15, making this the perfect moment to plan your visit.
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