NEW South Wales’ peak farm body is encouraging flood-affected farmers to report damage as soon as possible and access support services as recovery efforts begin across the state’s Hunter and Mid North ...

LIMA, Peru — Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki ... logs from Ecuador and covered by a bamboo deck. Atop a hardwood cabin, the crew ...

Coll Thrush's new book, "Wrecked," examines the shipwrecks in the Graveyard of the Pacific, the Northwest Coast.

In this episode on Tekniq, we observe the production of the very famous Chukudu bike, a journey on a multi-seat motorcycle taxi, bamboo river rafts for transportation, and transporting sand by small ...

Guided by stars, ocean swells, and currents, the crew is expected to arrive in Lanyu on May 8 and Taitung's Cidong community on May 10, marking a significant milestone in a cross-Pacific cultural ...

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific ... odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees and small ...

Iguanas Likely Crossed the Pacific Millions of Years Ago on a Record-Setting Rafting Trip NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands ...

Alfred Pawlik The ancestors of the Polynesians settled the remote islands of the Pacific between 1100 and ... mere passive sea drifters on flimsy bamboo rafts but by highly skilled navigators ...

People in traditional costumes enjoy plum blossoms while riding a bamboo raft at the Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 18, 2025. The Xixi wetland in ...

Bamboo rafting and river tubing are activities offered at the attraction by Calypso Rafting Company Limited, which has been in operation for many years.

Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in 1947 on a wooden boat ... mast held a square sail made of cotton canvas, and a small bamboo cabin provided basic shelter. No metal was used, keeping the raft as ...