(Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON -- Seventy-two airport towers and other air traffic control facilities that were slated to close at night due to budget cuts will get to stay open, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. The FAA had announced earlier this year that it would eliminate midnight shifts of air traffic controllers at 69 airport towers, two regional approach control facilities and one combination tower and approach control facility in order to meet across-the-board, automatic spending cuts required by...

A view of Tsim Sha Tsui West in Hong Kong. The photo is part of a series on Hong Kong cityscapes 'Vertical Horizon' by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze. (Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze) With 1,248 skyscrapers above 100m (328 feet) in height, the most among any country in the world, Hong Kong is the world's most vertical city. In a series titled "Vertical Horizon," French graphic artist and photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze captures Hong Kong's "architectural race to the sky" with breathtaking images of the...

The Lake Project 20, 2002 (Photo: David Maisel) In Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime (, 2013), a collection of aerial photographs of environmentally impacted sites, captures surreal images of open-pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. Though beautiful, Maisel's images tell a tragic story about the American landscape, and humankind's conflicted relationship with nature. Black Maps presents more than 100 photos that span Maisel's two-decade career. Here, we take a look...

Wild Things For many travelers, getting a glimpse of an exotic creature while traveling can make an entire trip. From adorable white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica, to deadly lions in Botswana, Oyster.com has the best picks for what to see and where to see it on your next exotic vacation. Read on to find out. White-Faced Capuchin Monkey Oyster's Pick for Where to See It: Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa RicaHabitat: Many types of forest Among the most adorable...

'The Fire in The Eyes' (Nikita Nomerz) No town is without its eyesores. Abandoned buildings litter most landscapes; in Detroit alone there are some 70,000 of them. Properties fall out of use and are left to a decidedly grim fate: brick soils, mortar crumbles, and veiny overgrowth peeks out of structural flaws. The resulting visual acts as a window into a time when bodies bustled about hallways and voices echoed off walls. Rooms in the long since defunct Domino Sugar...

(Getty Images) FORT WORTH, Texas -- In a quest to speed up the boarding process, American Airlines is letting passengers board sooner if they travel lightly. The airline said Thursday that people carrying just a personal item that fits under the seat - no rolling suitcases - will be allowed to board before most other passengers. American said that the change will allow flights to take off sooner, helping the airline improve its on-time performance. Airline officials say boarding times...

Traffic on the northbound and southbound lanes of the 110 Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles, Calif. (Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) NEW YORK — It's going to be another busy MemorialDay weekend on the nation's highways. From Thursday through Monday, 31.2 million Americans will drive 50 miles or more to a beach, campground or other getaway, according to car lobbying group AAA. That's a small increase from last year but still well short of the record 37.3 million people who drove...

In this May 2013 photo provided by Catlin Seaview Survey, Christophe Bailhache with an SVII camera is escorted underwater by a Spotted Eagle Ray during a survey dive in the Galapagos Islands. Few have laid eyes on many of the volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago that remain closed to tourists. (AP Photo/Catlin Seaview Survey) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and...

A stranded and malnourished juvenile sea lion pup sits on the rocks of White Point Park waiting to get rescued by Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue on April 5, 2013 in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) GULFPORT, Miss. — Four young sea lions stranded on California beaches have a new home at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport. They were among more than 1,000 sea lion pups abandoned on...

These postcards published over a hundred years ago capture the natural world at that time, from a lighthouse on a remote outcropping in Wales to a glacier in the Pacific Northwest to a trip to the beach in locations across the world. Take a tour of the climes of yesteryear through a now-obsolete technology called photochrom with these images obtained by the . The selection of postcards above shows the rich, natural beauty of Europe, the Middle East and Canada...

Guests visit the new attraction at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Fla., Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin on May 24, 2013. With a ride, restaurants and the penguin habitat, it's the largest expansion in the park's history. (AP Photo/Seaworld Parks & Entertainment via PRNewswire) ORLANDO, Fla. — If there's ever been a summer to visit a theme park — or two, or three — this is it. High speed wooden roller coasters? Thrilling, sense-assaulting rides? Penguins? Yes, yes and most definitely....

"Get out of the house and explore. Go to places you would never think of going." That's the advice from Joe Capra, an adventure photographer whose on Iceland are earning accolades. (PHOTOS: ) The project was born after Capra saw another photographer's video on Iceland. "The landscape is unreal," he says. Using the remainder of his vacation days, Capra timed his trip during the summer months, a time of year when the midnight sun would provide extra hours of sunlight....