6 beach cleans you can join in cities around the world

Travelling to pick up litter. On the face of it, this could be a tough sell to your average holidaymaker… But for eco-conscious globetrotters keen to have a positive impact on the destinations they visit, opting to take part in a beach clean during their trip could make for a rewarding experience; a volunteering project that avoids the pitfalls of ‘voluntourism’ schemes and also provides an opportunity to meet like-minded local people. Perhaps not such a rubbish idea after all?

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Where to find America's 10 newest national parks

There is one more good reason to see America's greatest outdoors now. And while you’re probably familiar with some of the more popular national parks—namely Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite—you might not know about many of the 10 newest national parks and where to find them.

Why Trieste will be Italy’s next big destination

For years Trieste has laboured beneath its reputation for melancholy. Twenty years ago, travel writer Jan Morris called it the ultimate “nowhere-place”: an Italian city suspended in a vanished Austro-Hungarian past surrounded on all sides by Slovenia, Croatia and the Adriatic Sea. But borders aren’t where things end, they are where they begin, and Trieste is finally on the radar.

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Wanting to share his love of Africa and its wilderness with his young daughters, Lonely Planet writer Anthony Ham travelled to the continent with them both in tow. Was it all that he (and they) hoped for?

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Horror writer Stephen King’s house in Maine is becoming a writers' retreat

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The steps in 'Joker' have Instagrammers heading to the Bronx

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