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The reason I did that is ,better now then later,that was always the right way,2nd i did it just for fun during the game with other players. i have a small Q ? I would like to know about what are you thinking with this 😄

For your info i got much more hours on servers like this one, I know i dont have a lot of here,but it was enough time to see what the server needs,maybe stricter discipline with admins,dont give easily admin to everyone,much more time to fro ugprades and etc. Dont allow anyone to get comfortable so easily. I know,i respect your opinion,i jsut wanna say make someone who's active during night or atleast stay there on the server as AFK just to prove those who break the rules to dont do any damage to other players/server.

Greetings NewlifeZM members. After a long time a came back to play sometimes and enjoy this game, a lot changed from the last time i was here, mostly bad things then the good once. First of all i would like to complain about admin work which is misarable,no game,technical or any other kind of support. During the night there is literally no admins active even if one of the important questions by making a request is ( ¤ Can You Stay Spectator Or Playing Between These Hours (24:00 To 12:00 PM): ) Players take that as advantade and team up to make themselve easier during the rounds/mods and etc. There is such many example which will distract players, especially the new ones. As I see this server forum is lead by so many players which aint possible to see in the server, many of the admins also dont care,just use their authority to their own sake. Its so sad to see all of this from day to day. Everyone is just thinking about being human and making frags, collecting points and etc. I could count many more mistakes but i think you know what I want to say. That path aint good for this server at all. Nobody is making any complain so I decide to say it first. Accept this a positive criticsm. Greetings Whoo! a.k.a Mandza.

The US Open normally marks the end of the grand slam season. But the coronavirus pandemic changed that and having another major just around the corner could be exactly what Novak Djokovic needs to overcome the lowest point of his career. That is the thought of his friend and former coach Radek Stepanek, and former world No. 1 Jim Courier. He has made an eye-catching pronouncement on vaccines, discussed the effects of emotions on water, organized the Adria Tour exhibition series in the Balkans that went badly wrong and, most recently, left the US Open in shame. There wouldn't have been as many players in recent history as strong a favorite to land a major than Djokovic in New York this year, given his dominance -- unbeaten in 2020 -- and the absence of his two biggest rivals, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Djokovic, though, was defaulted Sunday when he hit a ball that inadvertently struck a line judge in the throat. Frustration got the better of the 17-time grand slam winner after missing three set points in the first against Pablo Carreno Busta, hurting his left shoulder in a fall and then getting broken to trail 5-6 in a frantic 10-minute spell. He later apologized on social media. 'He is very sad inside' Stepanek is a massive fan of Djokovic but he had no issue with the decision tournament officials made. The Czech, who coached Djokovic alongside Hall of Famer Andre Agassi for several months from 2017 to 2018, suspected the Serb was suffering. "I know he is very sad inside himself and he is in pain," Stepanek, a former world No. 8 and a Davis Cup hero for the Czech Republic, told CNN. "He is in pain because it was unintentional and, in that moment, the pain is bigger. "And it's hard for him because we know how hungry he is to become the player with the most grand slams. I believe he felt -- everyone felt -- this one should be for him, reachable. "All these circumstances make it very sad for him and in the first moment, empty, because I believe he himself knew that it was wrong that she got hit. "Obviously the pressure on him and the criticism he is getting over time, it's hard. He's trying to do the best he can. He might be by the end of his career the greatest of all time. We are all human beings. We have a right to make a mistake." When it was pointed out to Stepanek that Djokovic might have made a few mistakes, he didn't disagree. "We create our own world and mistakes," said Stepanek, who irked an opponent or two during his career but was one of the most entertaining players of his generation. "We have to accept the outcome of it." For the time being, Stepanek said Djokovic is likely seeking refuge with those nearest and dearest to him. They would include his wife, Jelena, and their two young children. "I think he's going to go back to his family and the closest ones to feel in the safe environment," said Stepanek. "Be with his loved ones. I think that one of his biggest strengths is his mental power. "No matter how sad and empty he is right now -- and from what I know, it is very deep because he is a deep feeling person and he is sensitive -- he is also hard on himself right now. I think the thing that gets him out of this will be getting back to work."

An Australian man died after he was attacked by a shark on Tuesday at a po[CENSORED]r surfing spot in Queensland, authorities say. The 46-year-old man was bitten on his leg just after 5 p.m. while surfing at Greenmount Beach in Coolangatta, a suburb of the city of Gold Coast, according to the Queensland Police Service. He was surfing near the local lifesaving club's headquarters. Video from the scene showed at least six people rushing to get the victim out of the surf and onto the beach. Witness Jade Parker told CNN affiliate 7 News that he saw the man floating next to the surfboard as people went to help. "I just presumed he might have got knocked out, because he wasn't moving in the water," he said. Parker told 7 News that he saw that the man was badly injured, but surf lifesavers began treating him as soon as rescuers got him to the beach. Parker said the wound extended from the man's groin to slightly past his knee. "He was pretty much already gone by then," Parker said. Beach protected by shark nets People on the beach panicked as news of the attack spread, witness Leo Cabral told CNN affiliate 9 News. "Everyone was running around, there were kids crying on the sand ... A few people were standing by and were watching and couldn't believe what they were seeing," he said. "It was so sad, it was really sad." Cabral told 9 News that he was filming his 13-year-old son in the water when he heard people yelling "shark, shark, shark." "The first thing that came to my mind was that I just wanted my son and his friends to be out of the water ... I couldn't feel my body at all, I was completely frozen, I was blank, he told 9 News. "I started screaming to my son to get out of the water." A police helicopter to launched to search for the shark while beaches north and south of Greenmount were closed after the attack and nearby beaches will be closed on Wednesday, 9 News reported. Greenmount Beach is protected by shark nets, which are designed to catch potentially dangerous sharks, so they can't harm people. "The equipment lowers risk, but does not provide an impenetrable barrier between sharks and humans," according to the Queensland Government Shark Control Program's website. There have been at least six fatal shark attacks this year, according to the Australian Shark Attack File at the Taronga Conservation Society Australia. There were no fatal shark attacks last year and only one in 2018, according to the society's database. Gavin Naylor, the program director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, told CNN that the number of fatal shark attacks can jump dramatically from year to year. The program runs the International Shark Attack File, a global database of shark attacks. "We see fluctuations every year and we don't make too much of them," he said. Last month in New South Wales, a male surfer punched a great white shark repeatedly on the nose when it bit the woman he was surfing with. She was airlifted to a hospital for surgery and survived. In July, a 36-year-old man died after being attacked by a shark while spearfishing off the coast of Fraser Island in the Australian state of Queensland, and a 15-year-old boy died in a suspected shark attack while surfing in New South Wales. In June, a 60-year-old surfer died while surfing at Salt Beach near Kingscliff in New South Wales -- about 10 miles away from Tuesday's attack. In April, a Queensland wildlife ranger was killed by a great white, and in January a 57-year-old diver died from a shark attack in Western Australia state.

The US Open was supposed to be a slam dunk for Novak Djokovic but instead of moving closer to Roger Federer in the Grand Slam record books, the world No. 1 was defaulted Sunday when he struck a line judge with a ball. The Serb had just been broken to trail 6-5 in the first set against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta when he hit a ball behind him on the court. Djokovic wouldn't have been aiming at anyone but it hit the line judge -- seemingly near the face -- and she fell to the ground. The chair umpire, Aurelie Tourte, and Djokovic, went to check on her before they were joined on court by tournament referee Soeren Friemel and supervisor Andreas Egli. Djokovic then had an extended conversation with Friemel before he was officially defaulted. He left the tournament site without speaking to the media. In truth, according to the rules, default was going to be the only outcome even if the intent wasn't there from Djokovic, although Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene wasn't defaulted last week at the Western & Southern Open when he hit a ball and it struck a cameraman. "Players shall not at any time physically abuse any official, opponent, spectator or other person within the precincts of the tournament site," according to the Grand Slam rule book. Djokovic had no recourse since the Grand Slam rule book states that, "in all cases of default, the decision of the referee in consultation with the Grand Slam chief of supervisors shall be final and unappealable." Moments earlier, he had smacked a ball in frustration when he was unable to convert three set points at 5-4. He did not receive a warning ball abuse. Then he took a tumble in the 11th game, appearing to injure his shoulder. The trainer came out to visit the 17-time Grand Slam winner in the middle of the game before Djokovic returned to the court. In the past, Djokovic has received ball abuse warnings and been asked about his on-court conduct in news conferences. Defaults in tennis, especially in Grand Slams, are extremely rare. Former Wimbledon semifinalist Tim Henman was defaulted when he struck a ball and it hit a ball girl at Wimbledon in 1995. John McEnroe was defaulted for several violations -- not one, like in Djokovic's case -- in a match at the Australian Open in 1990. In a 2012 ATP tournament in London, David Nalbandian was defaulted from the final when he kicked an advertising board that then hit a line judge. Denis Shapovalov, who faces David Goffin in Sunday's night session at the Open, was defaulted when he struck an umpire in the eye with a ball at the Davis Cup in 2017.

Before Donald Trump ever sought the Oval Office, he was preoccupied by its occupant President Barack Obama, publicly questioning his birthplace and privately describing him as "a Manchurian candidate" who obtained his Ivy League degrees only by way of affirmative action, according to a new book by Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen. Trump's disdain for Obama was so extreme that he took his fixation a step further, according to Cohen: Trump hired a "Faux-Bama" to participate in a video in which Trump "ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him." Cohen's book, "Disloyal: A Memoir," doesn't name the man who was allegedly hired to play Obama or provide a specific date for the incident, but it does include a photograph of Trump sitting behind a desk, facing a Black man wearing a suit with an American flag pin affixed to the lapel. On Trump's desk are two books, one displaying Obama's name in large letters. CNN obtained a copy of Cohen's book ahead of its Tuesday publication. As an insider who spent years as Trump's personal attorney and self-proclaimed "fixer," Cohen says he is uniquely equipped to unleash on Trump, whom Cohen describes as "a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man" and a person interested in using the presidency exclusively for his personal financial benefit. But according to federal prosecutors and Cohen's own guilty pleas, he, too, is a liar and a cheat. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to nine counts of federal crimes, including tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign-finance violations he and prosecutors have said were done at Trump's direction to help him win the 2016 presidential election. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment. In a statement to the Washington Post, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, "Michael Cohen is a disgraced felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress. He has lost all credibility, and it's unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off of lies." Cohen acknowledges and apologizes for his role in Trump's rise, saying he was "more than willing to lie, cheat, and bully" to help his long-time boss win the White House. And he recounts the pressure and guilt he experienced as he spoke out against Trump, writing that he considered suicide "as a way to escape the unrelenting insanity" in the weeks prior to testifying to Congress in 2019. But in the book, he disputes having committed certain crimes to which he has already admitted, portraying himself a victim of the "gangster tactics" of the federal prosecutors of the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Still, Cohen's account of Trump's personal nature and presidency is damning, and during Cohen's time in prison, he writes, "I became even more convinced that Trump will never leave office peacefully." Trump's model of a man in power, according to Cohen, is Vladimir Putin, and Trump is described as enamored of Putin's wealth and unilateral influence, and awestruck by what he sees as the Russian president's ability to control everything from the country's press to its financial institutions. "Locking up your political enemies, criminalizing dissent, terrifying or bankrupting the free press through libel lawsuits -- Trump's all-encompassing vision wasn't evident to me before he began to run for president," Cohen writes. "I honestly believe the most extreme ideas about power and its uses only really took shape as he began to seriously contemplate the implications of taking power and how he could leverage it to the absolute maximum level possible." He also argues that, with Trump himself expecting to lose the presidential race, Trump's goal in cozying up to Putin was to position himself to benefit financially from a planned real-estate development in Moscow after the election. "By ingratiating himself with Putin, and hinting at changes in American sanctions policy against the country under a Trump Presidency," Cohen writes, "the Boss was trying to nudge the Moscow Trump Tower project along." (One of the crimes to which Cohen pleaded guilty was lying to Congress about the duration of the negotiations regarding the Moscow development.) Cohen also portrays Trump as aspiring to have ties to the Russian president. After Trump sold a Palm Beach mansion he purchased for $41 million to a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million in 2008, Cohen says, Trump told Cohen he believed the real buyer was Putin. Cohen, however, disputes the validity of a rumored videotape depicting Trump during a trip to Moscow, saying, "this claim never occurred, to the best of my knowledge and investigations." But Cohen discloses that during the summer of 2016, he received an anonymous call from a man who said he was in possession of a tape matching its description. Cohen told the caller that he would need to see a few seconds of the tape to determine if it was real, and the caller demanded $20 million before hanging up, never to be heard from again. Blacks & Latinos, 'They're not my people' If Putin is held in the highest regard in Trump's mind, Cohen writes, Trump's own voters rank among those in the lowest. Speaking to Cohen after Trump gathered religious leaders at Trump Tower in the lead up to the 2012 presidential race, an encounter during which they asked to "lay hands" on him, Trump asked Cohen, according to the book: "Can you believe that bullsh*t?...Can you believe people believe that bullsh*t?" In the wake of Trump's presidential kickoff announcement in 2015, in which he called Mexicans criminals and rapists, he dismissed concerns that he had alienated Latinos. "Plus, I will never get the Hispanic vote," Trump allegedly told Cohen. "Like the blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump. They're not my people." (Trump won 28% of the Latino vote in 2016.) Trump's contempt, in Cohen's telling, extends broadly. Cohen characterizes Trump bluntly as racist, and says that while he never heard Trump use the "N-word," Trump used other offensive language. Ranting about Obama after he won office in 2008, Trump said, "Tell me one country run by a black person that isn't a sh*thole...They are all complete f*cking toilets," according to Cohen. After Nelson Mandela died, Trump allegedly said of South Africa that "Mandela f*cked the whole country up. Now it's a sh*thole. F*ck Mandela. He was no leader." Cohen also divulges personal details about Trump, including his hair routine, described as a "three-step" combover designed to disguise "unsightly scars on his scalp from a failed hair-implant operation in the 1980s." Writing that he once witnessed Trump shortly after he showered, Cohen recalls that "when his hair wasn't done, his strands of dyed-golden hair reached below his shoulders along the right side of his head and on his back, like a balding Allman Brother or strung out old '60s hippie." Many instances of Trump's alleged deceit have previously been detailed by Cohen and others in recent years: Trump's alleged inflation of his net worth to publications like Forbes and Fortune and his minimizing of the value of his properties to avoid taxes, Cohen's pressuring of the New York Military Academy to not release Trump's high school records to avoid their public disclosure, Cohen paying to rig CNBC and Drudge Report polls in Trump's favor, Trump campaign officials hiring extras for $50 apiece to attend Trump's 2015 announcement that he was running for president and the alleged fraudulent Trump University scheme, over which Trump settled a class action lawsuit for $25 million.

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has opened up about his mental health struggles, admitting he has "a lot of difficult days" and suffers from loneliness on the tour. The six-time world champion posted an emotional message on his social media channels this week, explaining the two very different sides of him -- one being the "cut throat, hungry racer" people see on television and the other being a man "figuring life out, day by day." He also said he is struggling during the pandemic, with the bubble system adopted amid sport's restart hard to cope with. "You get lonely, you miss your friends and family, and with back-to-back race weeks it means there's not much time for anything but work," he wrote. "So I'm grateful for the ones closest to me helping me to keep a balance, even if it's just thru [sic] text, phone or FaceTime. "I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's never a bad thing to ask for help if you need it, or to tell somebody how you feel. Showing your vulnerable side doesn't make you weak, instead, I like to think of it as a chance to become stronger." Lewis Hamilton takes a knee on the grid in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Mercedes driver has won five of the seven races since the sport returned with a rescheduled calendar after lockdown and is currently in Monza for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix. When asked about his comments on loneliness and mental health, Hamilton said he was just trying to tell his fans the truth. "I think as competitors, it's not the first thing you think of doing, being open and expressing yourself," he told reporters during a video press conference. "But I think it's really important, more important than what's happening here." The 35-year-old, who has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement in recent months, has previously spoken out about his struggles. In October last year, he posted a series of messages of social media saying he felt like "giving up on everything" with the world being in "such a mess." Hamilton is only two wins away from equaling his hero Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 91 career wins.

In August 2020, the RAS Institute of Oil and Gas Problems, supported by the local Yamal authorities, conducted a major expedition to the new crater. Skoltech researchers were part of the final stages of that expedition. Credit: Evgeny Chuvilin A Russian TV crew flying over the Siberian tundra this summer spotted a massive crater 30 meters (100 feet) deep and 20 meters wide -- striking in its size, symmetry and the explosive force of nature that it must have taken to have created it. Scientists are not sure exactly how the huge hole, which is at least the ninth spotted in the region since 2013, formed. Initial theories floated when the first crater was discovered near an oil and gas field in the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia included a meteorite impact, a UFO landing and the collapse of a secret underground military storage facility. While scientists now believe the giant hole is linked to an explosive buildup of methane gas -- which could be an unsettling result of warming temperatures in the region -- there is still a lot the researchers don't know. An aerial view of the newest crater that appeared this year. It's one of the largest that has appeared so far. In August 2020, the RAS Institute of Oil and Gas Problems, supported by the local Yamal authorities, conducted a major expedition to the new crater. Skoltech researchers were part of the final stages of that expedition. Credit: Evgeny Chuvilin "Right now, there is no single accepted theory on how these complex phenomena are formed," said Evgeny Chuvilin, lead research scientist at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology's Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, who has visited the site of the newest crater to study its features. "It is possible they have been forming for years, but it is hard to estimate the numbers. Since craters usually appear in uninhabited and largely pristine areas of the Arctic, there is often no one to see and report them," Chuvilin said. "Even now, craters are mostly found by accident during routine, non-scientific helicopter flights or by reindeer herders and hunters." Permafrost, which amounts to two-thirds of the Russian territory, is a huge natural reservoir of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and recent hot summers, including in 2020, in the region may have played a role in creating these craters. Mining a mystery Chuvilin and his team are among the few scientists who have been down inside one of these craters to investigate how it formed and where the gas that causes them comes from. Accessing the craters has to be done with climbing gear and there is a limited window -- the craters turn into lakes within two years of being formed. The scientists took samples of permafrost soil, ground and ice from the rim of a hole -- known as the Erkuta crater -- during a field trip in 2017 after it was discovered by biologists who were in the area observing falcon nesting. The researchers conducted drone observations six months later. "The main issue with these craters is how incredibly fast, geologically, they form and how short-lived they are before they turn into lakes," Chuvilin said. "Finding one in the remote Arctic is always a stroke of luck for scientists." The study, which was published in June, showed that gases, mostly methane, can accumulate in the upper layers of permafrost from multiple sources -- both from the deep layers of the Earth and closer to the surface. The accumulation of these gases can create pressure that is strong enough to burst through the upper layers of frozen ground, scattering earth and rocks and creating the crater. "We want to stress that the studies of this crater problem are in a very early stage, and each new crater leads to new research and discoveries," he said. With the Erkuta crater, the scientists' model suggested that it formed in a dried-up lake that probably had something called an underlake talik -- a zone of unfrozen soils that started freezing gradually after the lake had dried out, building up the stress that was ultimately released in a powerful explosion -- a type of ice volcano. "Cryovolcanism, as some researchers call it, is a very poorly studied and described process in the cryosphere, an explosion involving rocks, ice, water and gases that leaves behind a crater. It is a potential threat to human activity in the Arctic, and we need to thoroughly study how gases, especially methane, are accumulated in the top layers of the permafrost and which conditions can cause the situation to go extreme," Chuvilin noted. Cryosphere refers to portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form -- ice. "These methane emissions also contribute to the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and climate change itself might be a factor in increasing cryovolcanism. But this is still something that needs to be researched," Chuvilin said. He said his team will publish more detailed information on the newest crater shortly in a scientific journal. He added it's one of the biggest found so far. Extreme summers Marina Leibman, a Russian permafrost expert at the Earth Cryosphere Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, was part of a team of researchers who have analyzed five gas emission craters using remote sensing data and field surveys. The researchers found the craters shared some similar features, most notably a 2- to 6-meter-high mound that formed before the explosion. The craters were all also located on gentle slopes and had a lower portion that was cylindrical like a can before opening into a funnel, with the opening diameter around 20 to 25 meters wide. The explosions all ejected ground ice, which in some cases leaves holes where huge frozen blocks have fallen on the surface. Leibman believed that extremely hot summers in the region in 2012 and 2016, and again this year, may have played a role in the growth and blowout of these mounds. The mounds appear and explode within as a little as three to five years. "The release of methane from permafrost ... is likely caused by rising air and ground temperature over the past decades. The formation of all GECs (gas emission craters) was preceded by anomalously warm summers," the study, which published in July this year, said.

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Something unusual happened to Novak Djokovic at the US Open on Wednesday. He lost a tiebreak. But the world No. 1 recovered to beat Kyle Edmund 6-7 (5) 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the second round and -- despite dropping a set and the distractions stemming from spearheading a new players' association -- continues to be the heavy men's favorite. With a record of 25-0 this season and closest rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer missing, how could he not be? Still, it was some shock that the Serbian conceded the opener, even if his British opponent possesses one of the biggest forehands in the game. France's Kristina Mladenovic lost a tiebreak but also the match in one of grand slam tennis' biggest blown leads, having been up 6-1 5-1 and four match points on the 102nd-ranked Varvara Gracheva. And women's top seed Karolina Pliskova fell to Mladenovic's compatriot Caroline Garcia in another outing featuring a tiebreak, 6-2 7-6 (2). It was a mild upset, given Garcia is a former top-5 player and Pliskova has made one quarterfinal at a major since the start of 2019. "I'm not a robot, so I don't have to play every day amazing," Pliskova, handed the top seeding because of the absences of Ash Barty and Simona Halep, said. Djokovic has been playing amazing in the truncated 2020 campaign and in tiebreaks. He had won 18 of his previous 20 tiebreaks, the lone blemishes both coming in London against Dominic Thiem at the ATP Finals in November and Hubert Hurkacz at Wimbledon in July. However, London was also the site of his greatest tiebreak success in a single match. He memorably won all three in last year's Wimbledon final against Federer, not making a single unforced error. That included Wimbledon's first ever 12-12 tiebreak in a finale. On a steamy day in New York where ball people needed to clean sweat marks on court, Djokovic did make a few unforced errors in the tiebreak against Edmund -- notably a drop shot into the net when leading 4-3. But an early break in the second got the 17-time grand slam winner on the path to victory against Edmund, who topped Djokovic on the clay in Madrid in 2018 and made the Australian Open semifinals months earlier. We should have known there would be some drama in the tussle, since British players had produced their fair share of theater the opening two days. Cam Norrie rallied from two sets down and saved match points against Diego Schwartzman on Monday, prior to Andy Murray saving a match point and coming from two sets down to top Yoshi Nishioka. Murray watched his fellow Brit take on Djokovic as select players benefit from having their own luxury suites on Ashe in the absence of paying fans, who are being kept away amid the coronavirus. Djokovic tested positive for the virus in late June off the back of his controversial Adria Tour exhibition. Mladenovic's collapse Mladenovic said she had been placed in what the US Open has called an enhanced protocol plan -- or in her words a "bubble in the bubble" -- after coming into close contact with a player who had tested positive for the virus. For that, she likened it Monday to being in a "nightmare." There was another nightmare for Mladenovic to endure Wednesday, as she "collapsed" against Gracheva. She held the four match points returning serve at 5-2 in the second set before exiting 1-6 7-6 (2) 6-0. "Yeah, it's definitely the most painful match and loss I've had in my career because it's a grand slam and I was 6-1, 5-1 and 0-40," she told reporters in English in a Zoom call. "I was playing really good tennis there but couldn't close it out and convert my match points. I think that she saved it well. "She was brave and went for it but I didn't take my chances and I would like to answer that question but from 5-2 slowly I started feeling that I was crashing down and I got tight and I just collapsed. I had nothing left in the tank."

Let's journey back to a different time. One that feels far away. Early January 2020. Travelers were gearing up for another booming year of adventures -- from visits to Japan for the Olympics to cruises galore. But while we aimed for another year of far-flung trips, environmental activists continued their warnings about a growing climate catastrophe and the role travelers were playing. Some people had been heeding their calls and trying to plan more sustainable trips. Tips on going green from CNN Travel and other sites were po[CENSORED]r reading then. But for the most part, travel projections were for more of the same. We couldn't let problems such as emissions and overtourism keep us at home -- we had a world to see in 2020! Meanwhile, a new and different kind of threat -- one that couldn't be so easily swept aside -- was about to be unleashed. Reports were coming out about a new, mysterious virus in the interior of China. It wasn't SARS. It had infected dozens of people. But what was it? We had no idea that our world and the travel industry with it were about to be turned upside down. A disquieting quiet Almost in the blink of an eye, everything changed because of that new virus. It swept the globe. Countries closed their borders. The Summer Olympics were postponed. Cruise ships desperately searched for harbors to let passengers off. Airports were nearly empty. Beach resorts were deserted. Amusement parks became ghost towns. Covid-19 and coronavirus soon became household words. Then, we noticed something rather nice -- a silver lining of sorts -- during the spring shutdown. In normally polluted cities such as Los Angeles, skies were clearer. So was water -- people could see marine life in Venice's normally turgid, busy canals. To our delight, birdsong became easier to hear. There seemed to be a cause and effect at work. And it raised a lot of questions. Did the sudden drop in global travel really have an unexpected benefit for the environment? Are there ways to keep the perceived benefits going if or when the virus is under control? And perhaps most importantly, can we return to roaming the world one day but be better stewards of our planet while doing so? As with everything else involving the pandemic, the answers are hard and complicated. Emissions and carbon footprints One statistic -- a seemingly small number -- had big things to say about tourism and its effect on the environment before the pandemic: 8%. That's how much tourism contributed to global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a groundbreaking study from researchers at the University of Queensland Australia and University of Sydney in May 2018. (Greenhouse gas emissions trap heat in the atmosphere and cause the planet to warm quickly.) That was some four times higher than previously estimated. And the majority of this carbon footprint (the total amount of greenhouse gases we generate with our actions) came from high-income countries. The study also found the fast rise in tourism demand was "effectively outstripping" the technological improvements the industry was making toward reducing its carbon footprint. The study didn't have a sunny outlook going forward, either. "We project that, due to its high carbon intensity and continuing growth, tourism will constitute a growing part of the world's greenhouse gas emissions." Everything goes out the window No one knew in 2018 that we'd have a history-making coronavirus pandemic in 2020. That threw everything out the window about where we thought we'd be. The quarantines and shutdowns caused unprecedented slowdowns in the air transport and tourism industries, according to a July 2020 study from the University of Sydney. It found that overall global emissions dropped by 4.6%. That happens to be the largest drop in history. But while the environment got a break, the world's economy got slammed. Transport and tourism have been the worst-hit sectors, the study found. Arunima Malik of the University of Sydney's Business School and one of the authors of the study, put it this way in the study: "We are experiencing the worst economic shock since the Great Depression, while at the same time we have experienced the greatest drop in greenhouse gas emissions since the burning of fossil fuels began." Small countries hit hard Ya-Yen Sun, senior lecturer at the University of Queensland Australia's School of Business and another author on the studies, told CNN Travel that countries heavily reliant on tourism have been devastated. "We know tourism is one of the largest [economic] sectors in the world. It contributes about 10% of the global GDP and one in 10 jobs are related to tourism," Sun said.