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Garden dinners bloom again

The highly anticipated roof-top dinner series at the Vancouver Fairmont Waterfront returned again this past summer. Under open skies and set against the breathtaking background of the harbour and North Shore mountains, each dinner offered thoughtfully curated, multicourse menus. Each was locally inspired and paired with premium BC wines and live local music.
fairmont-waterfront.com

“The Dell”opens new spa

Reimagined and reopened after a 7 year $550 million US reno, San Diego’s latest spa has an outdoor lounge, a new area for men and a Marilyn Munro inspired Bar. Partnered with longevity platform Lumati, the spa offers a 5-1
recharge station that offers five, consecutive fifteen-minute therapies: Full spectrum photobiomodulation light therapy, molecular hydrogen inhalation therapy, micro-impact therapy, sound therapy and supplementation.
hoteldel.com

Weighing 1.5 trillion trees

The European Space Agency’s 1.2 ton biomass satellite nicknamed Space Brolly. It was built in the UK and is equipped with radar that can penetrate the forest canopy to map entire trees, to help scientists to determine just how much biomass the Earth’s forests actually contain. The rocket recently left ESA’s Kourou station in French Guinea to study the Amazon rainforests.
European Space Agency

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