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Mar 31
Travel Guide Galapagos / All About The Galapagos Archipelago
openPR (press release) - Hamburg,Germany
(openPR) - Germany, March 2008 -- Galapagos is known as last
paradise with a various, endemic wildlife and nature. Turtle-Media has now
published "Galapagos ...
Educator walks in footsteps of Charles Darwin
Hamilton Journal News (subscription) - Hamilton,OH,USA
By Lindsey Hilty FAIRFIELD — For Jenn Webb, a third-year biology teacher
at Fairfield High School, there was no greater place to visit than the
Galapagos ...
Mar 30
The antichrist for feminists
Guardian Unlimited - UK
They were usually privately educated, annoying, brash and had spent a gap
year breast-feeding endangered turtles in the Galapagos before
coming up to a ...
Valedictorian to address class from Europe
United Press International - USA
Blute beat 2000 rivals for the Student Travel Association internship, which
will take him from London to the Galapagos Islands with stops in
between in ...
Mar 29
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CHARLES DARWIN FOUNDATION SPEAKS AT COLORADO ...
Colorado State University - Fort Collins,CO,USA
The executive director of the Charles Darwin Foundation,
Graham Watkins, will present a public lecture, "Galapagos at a
Critical Crossroads," ...
The designer's poking fun at her
Now Magazine Online - London,England,UK
Now the pair are thought to have jetted to the Galapagos Islands to
celebrate with a break at the =A3400-a-night Royal Palm Hotel.
'They'll be welcome if they ...
Mar 28
Travel Guide Galapagos / All About the Galapagos Archipelago and ...
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
The Galapagos Islands are one of the last animal and nature
sanctuaries and have not lost any of their attraction for nature and animal
lovers...
Ecotourism and economics
Economist - UK
TOURISM has a long history in the Galapagos Islands. An early
visitor was Charles Darwin nearly 175 years ago, on a trip that inspired
his theory of ...
Drug Resistance, Explained
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
The process of natural selection, the same one that brought us a
four-chambered heart and different sizes of beaks on Galapagos
finches, does the rest.
Mar 27
Darwin was right
Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Of all the places
he visited, Charles Darwin is perhaps most closely associated with the
Galapagos ...
Mar 26
Luxury Resort to Open on Kangaroo Island
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
Until now, lodging possibilities on Kangaroo Island, often considered the
Australian Galapagos, with its 21 national parks and five
wilderness protection ...
Northstar inks IMAX deal
Variety - Los Angeles,CA,USA
"Galapagos," "Fires of Kuwait," "The Secret
of Life on Earth," "Survival Island," "L5: First City
in Space," "The Last Buffalo" and "Skyward."
Mar 25
Lure of lagoon fishing vs. trap of NASA intrusion
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
In fact, it may be our own little Galapagos as research suggests the
redfish here represent a separate subspecies due to the unique isolation of
the lagoon.
Andy says: Go Beyond!
Daily Echo - Southampton,England,UK
Excedo's portfolio includes small ship experiences along the Amazon ,
into Antarctica, around the Galapagos, Tahiti, the Caribbean, the
Nile and the Far ...
Mar 24
The lowly sweet potato may unlock America’s past
Times Online - UK
The much shorter crossing from Ecuador to the Galapagos was second,
at almost 10 per cent, followed by the central Polynesian island groups of
Tuamotu and ...
Mar 23
Before they're gone
Detroit Free Press - United States
You say visitors even helped introduce invasive species to the
Galapagos Islands. A: Some sites can't handle the load they are
receiving.
D'ARCONTE: Don't bet casinos are dead
Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
"While in Ecuador, we spent four days in the Galapagos
exploring the wildlife ..." "The big news while we were in
Ecuador was the floods .
Intelligent Design Movie Is Not for Heathens
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - Hartford,CT,USA
... and to some of the other odd activities that have come his way
from time to time in a long career that’s more varied than the
Galapagos finches.
Mar 22
Couple's slaying grabs national attention
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
"America's Most Wanted" states that the couple had just
returned from trips to Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands, when
they had actually just traveled to ...
Luxury Resort to Open on Kangaroo Island
New York Times - United States
By HILARY HOWARD Until now, lodging possibilities on Kangaroo Island, often
considered the Australian Galapagos, with its 21 national parks and
five ...
Sven Lindblad Receives Major Conservation Award in Galapagos
Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine (press release) - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
By YV&C News Desk From the 24th to the 27th of September 2008, the
companies of the luxury yachting sector will return to Port Hercules for
the 18th Monaco ...
Mar 21
Two new tours to Peru
Group Travel Organiser - Hastings,England,UK
The 17-day ‘Machu Picchu and Galapagos Islands’ tour takes you
to the Peruvian capital of Lima then to the city of Cuzco. From here you
take a train through ...
Parker Travel Series
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA
Galapagos Islands: Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm Visit three of the
Islands of the Galapagos Archipelago with Kathy Ullyat as she shares
information and ...
Saving the Galapagos from Disneyism
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
By JENNIFER CONLIN Tourists snorkeling at Isla Bartolome as they visit
Pinnacle Rock in the Galapagos. Mostly because of increased tourism,
UNESCO has added ...
Mar 20
Sven Lindblad Receives Major Conservation Award in Galapagos
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
This award honors Lindblad's commitment to the preservation and
conservation of the Galapagos archipelago and his commitment to the
welfare of the Galapagos ...
Galapagos giant tortoise has baby at 70
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Becoming a mother at 70-years-old doesn't present a problem - for a
Galapagos giant tortoise. Nigrita produced her baby a few weeks ago
at Zurich Zoo in ...
Little and large: The tiny tortoise who's a fraction of the size ...
Daily Mail - UK
Nigrita is a 70-year-old Galapagos Giant Tortoise — the largest
living species — who has lived at Zurich Zoo since 1946, and hatched this
baby a few weeks ...
Ecuador’s “Galapagos Invasive Species” Fund gets first injection ...
UNESCO World Heritage Centre (press release) - Paris,France
The Ecuadorian National Environmental Fund's "Galapagos
Invasive Species" account received its first injection of US$2.19
million on March 18 under the ...
Mar 19
Pineapple Dreams
New York Times - United States
Island chains like Hawaii and the Galapagos, and lake systems like
the Great Lakes of Africa, are famous for the unusual species that have
evolved there.
Wavehunters Special Bulletin: High Surf Advisory For Central ...
Transworld Surf (press release) - Oceanside,CA,USA
A major SW ground swell is on the way to Central America for the week of
Mar 24-31. This will be one of the biggest swells of the year with double
overhead ...
New Northwest WorldPerks Online Auction
WebFlyer - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
Items will include luxury vacation packages such as a 10-day cruise of the
Galapagos or 11-day Nile cruise, sporting events, merchandise,
unique experiences ...
Charles Darwin’s SUV
Assembly Magazine - Bensenville,IL,USA
Now Peter Cooke, a professor of automotive management at the University of
Buckingham in England, is talking about something called the
Galapagos Syndrome ...
Mar 18
Winds of change blow from Arrowsic man to the Galapagos Islands
Brunswick Times Record - ME, United States
The Galapagos are famous as the site where Charles Darwin observed
its flora and fauna and devised the theory of evolution. It remains one of
the most ...
The Earth’s beauty is worth preserving
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
On a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands, I could see the impact of
people and tourism on the environment. The problems of the Galapagos
began during World ...
Mar 17
Police Searching For Suspect In Hartford Robbery
Hartford Courant - United States
An employee at Galapagos Envios told police he was robbed around
10:42 am The suspect threatened to shoot the employee unless he was given
all the money ...
SUNTREK features Ecuador and Galapagos tours
e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - Sydney,NSW,Australia
The highlights of Ecuador and the Galapagos can be experienced on
SUNTREK’s new adventure and active tours in Central America.
Mar 16
Repeatedly paving the road to hell
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Charles Darwin's study of finches on the Galapagos Archipelago,
aka the Enchanted Islands, in 1835 led to his The Origin of Species.
...
Mar 15
The evolution of Darwin; ROM exhibit examines life of famed naturalist
Brantford Expositor - Canada
And not just because they are living cousins of the species the famed
naturalist observed on the Galapagos Islands in 1831, but because of
what they are ...
Galapagos ADR listing operational; CEO presents at Cowen Health ...
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
The live webcast of thepresentation can be accessed via
Galapagos' website at www.glpg.com.The archived webcast will
also be available for replay.
Mar 14
Charity Islands
Ventura County Reporter - Ventura,CA,USA
“I’ve been to the Galapagos, and I think what we have here is
much more special, especially in terms of the marine environment. I mean 27
whale species...
Dr. Peter Glynn with coral.
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Since the early 1980’s Glynn's research has focused on coral reef
disturbance ecology in the equatorial eastern Pacific (Panama,
Galapagos Islands...
Mar 13
Machu Picchu Galapagos tour & luxury vacation packages announced ...
openPR (press release) - Hamburg,Germany
Machu Picchu & Galapagos are two of the premier travel
experiences to visit in Latin America. Eric Sheets, founder of Latin
Excursions on the announcement ...
Britons robbed at gunpoint in Ecuador
Times Online - UK
Nine Britons were held at gunpoint and robbed in a terrifying 45-minute
ordeal on the first night of a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos
Islands.
Mar 12
Stop the Mutants!
New York Times - United States
Galapagos finches, famously, differ in the shapes of their beaks.
Indeed, one of the great surprises of the past decades has been how much
genetic variation ...
In New York, art and development go hand in hand
Taipei Times - Taiwan
The Galapagos Art Space will pay around US$20 per square meter a
year when it moves into a 102-year-old, 929m2 former stable at 16 Main St
this spring.
Mar 11
Trio of UMSL science events
Current - St. Louis,MO,USA
On Monday, March 10, the Monday Noon Series this week offers "Threats
to the Wildlife of the Galapagos Islands," a talk by Dr.
Patricia Parker...
Live: AGF at Monkeytown; Vladislav Delay at Galapagos
Village Voice - New York,NY,USA
The back room at Galapagos is packed, necks craning to get a glimpse
of the reclusive, albeit prolific, producer. Hunched over his
laptop—though leaning to ...
$35m plan to rid island of rats and feral cats
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Described as New Zealand's biggest conservation project, it aims to
"make Stewart Island the Galapagos of the South". Copies
of the proposal have been given ...
South America Luxury Travel company Latin Excursions announced the ...
Emailwire - USA
It is a unique exploration trip that includes both the 'Mysterious lost
city of Machu Picchu' & the 'Enchanted isles of
Galapagos' .
Galapagos Announces 2007 Full Year Results
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
MECHELEN, Belgium, March 7, 2008 – Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG)
announces its 2007 full year results and provides market guidance for 2008.
...
Mar 10
Galapagos announces 2007 full year results
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
In 2007 Galapagos grew revenues by 87% and made sound progress
towardentering the clinic with its bone and joint programs. In a year
ofrestructuring and ...
Galapagos loss widens in 07 as R&D escalates
OutSourcing-Pharma.com - London,UK
By Kirsty Barnes 10-Mar -2008 - Galapagos has watched its loss widen
over the past year as it stepped up its internal research and development
activities.
Galapagos FY net loss widens; sees 2008 sales guidance 75-80 mln eur
Forbes - NY,USA
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Galapagos reported a wider full-year
net loss on increased research and development costs, along with a loss of
3.9 mln eur ...
Galapagos Announces Level 1 ADR Listing and Cancels AIM Listing
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
MECHELEN, Belgium, March 6, 2008 - Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG)
announced today that it will launch a Level 1 American Depositary Receipt
(ADR) facility in ...
Mar 8
Taking a walk in Darwin's shoes
Globe and Mail - Canada
The pair, on loan from a local reptile zoo, are African spurred tortoises,
a different species from the much larger Galapagos tortoises Charles
Darwin ...
Galapagos announces level 1 ADR listing and cancels AIM listing
Trading Mar kets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Galapagos will cancel its listing on the Alternative Investment
Mar ket (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. Galapagos' Board of
Directors has approved the ...
Stockberger goes on mission trip to Pacific island
Mount Vernon News - Mount Vernon,OH,USA
“The Galapagos Islands are one of the most popular destinations
for eco-tourists,” he said, “and I wanted to see what that was all
about.
Planktos gets that uncomfortable sinking feeling
Fortnightly Tenerife News - Tenerife,Spain
It was turned away from jettisoning thousands of tons of iron filings into
the sea near the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific last year.
...
Mar 7
Galapagos Posts Wider Loss In FY07, Despite Strong Revenue Growth ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
3/7/2008 4:51:00 AM Drug discovery company Galapagos NV (GLPG.L) on
Friday reported wider net loss in its fiscal year 2007, reflecting higher
operating ...
Galapagos announces 2007 full year results
CNNMoney.com - USA
Mechelen, Belgium; 7 March 2008 - Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG)
announces its 2007 full year results and provides market guidance for 2008.
...
Galapagos 2007 Loss Widens; Provides 2008 Revenue Outlook - Quick ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
3/7/2008 2:30:24 AM Galapagos NV (GLPG.L) reported 2007 net loss of
EUR 21.9 million or EUR 1.06 per share, compared to a loss of EUR 11.3
million or EUR ...
PROBUS CLUB GUEST SPEAKER
Guide and Gazette - Arbroath,Scotland,UK
... after lunch, the main speaker, Michael Baughan, to give an
illustrated talk on his travels in South America and the Galapagos
Islands.
BioFocus revenue surge boosts Galapagos
Business Weekly - UK
A =A310m revenues increase by the East of England service division of
Belgian’s Galapagos NV has underpinned major group growth for the
global drug discovery ...
Real Estate Round-Up
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
For instance, this spring the Galapagos Art Space, which has been in
Williamsburg, is moving into a 102-year-old, 10000-square-foot former
stable at 16 Main ...
Galapagos Islands in search of clean energy
Dos Mundos - Kansas City,MO,USA
TORONTO, (IPS) - Ecuador has taken the first step towards ending the oil
dependence of its Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean,
...
Mar 6
Galapagos announces level 1 ADR listing and cancels AIM listing
CNNMoney.com - USA
Mechelen, Belgium; 6 March 2008 - Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG)
announced today that it will launch a Level 1 American Depositary Receipt
(ADR) facility in ...
Galapagos Islands search for Clean Energy
iNSnet - Heerlen,Limburg,Netherlands
Ecuador has taken the first step towards ending the oil dependence of its
Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with the official
opening of a ...
Surfline: surf reports cameras forecasts surfing news videos photos
Surfline.com Surf News - Huntington Beach,CA,USA
The surf for the Galapagos Islands, our February 2008 Best Bet, was
even better than we thought it would be. To review, we suggested the
Galapagos as an ...
Mar 5
Editorial: Student Government Election UPUA voting must equal fund ...
The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA
The Galapagos tortoise knows a thing or two about longevity;
members of the species can live for more than 150 years, according to The
San Diego Zoo.
BBC Motion Gallery Expands HD Footage
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
Available via www.bbcmotiongallery.com, the expanded HD offerings feature
content from Galapagos, which is now available for the first time
for licensing ...
Panamanian Boat Detained in Galapagos
Guardian - UK
AP QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuadorean authorities have detained a Panamanian
boat and its 21 crew members on suspicion of fishing illegally in the
Galapagos ...
Mar 4
Panamanian boat detained in Galapagos
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP QUITO, Ecuador—Ecuadorean authorities have detained a Panamanian boat
and its 21 crew members on suspicion of fishing illegally in the
Galapagos Islands...
Panamanian Boat Detained in Galapagos
Forbes - NY,USA
AP 02.29.08, 10:22 PM ET Ecuadorean authorities have detained a Panamanian
boat and its 21 crew members on suspicion of fishing illegally in the
Galapagos ...
TV Review: Life in Cold Blood, BBC One, Monday 3 March, 9pm
TV Scoop - London,UK
But although they may have originally evolved in such predator-free places
as the Galapagos Islands, today's tortoises have more defences
up their sleeves ...
Plants Rapidly Evolve New Reproductive Systems in Cities
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Because seeds grew up so close to home, the plants evolved super quickly --
sort of an urban Galapagos Islands effect. (One of the ways that
Darwin first ...
Mar 3
Wildlife sightings in political jungle
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
From that, experts surmise that the origin of the species might be found
not in the Galapagos Islands, but in The Cat in the Hat, where Dr.
Seuss managed to ...
Hot and Heavy Hols
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
Or take a volunteer-work vacation, feed cheetahs in Namibia, sail to the
Galapagos, delve into your DNA and genealogy, eat your way through
Asia.
WHERE is the capital of Ireland? a) Cork b) Donegal c) Dublin.
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
WHAT’S the average life expectancy of a tortoise from Galapagos ?
a) 300 years b) 200 years c) 100 years.WHO was the first president of the
United States? ...
Mar 1
Panamanian Boat Detained in Galapagos
The Associated Press -
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorean authorities have detained a Panamanian
boat and its 21 crew members on suspicion of fishing illegally in the
Galapagos ...
ENVIRONMENT: Galapagos Islands in Search of Clean Energy
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome, Italy
Ecuador has taken the
first step towards ending the oil dependence of its Galapagos
Islands...
Apr 6
Apr 5
Wineke: Didn't we know this would happen?
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
In the meantime, Time magazine reports this week that the Amazon
rain forest is being destroyed at an ever-faster rate, in part because the
American corn ...
Botanist from Broadmoor shares what he learned in the Amazon
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
And ultimately he set up a foundation for the preservation of the Amazon
rainforest culture. Every year for the 30 years, Plotkin has visited
Suriname...
Trip to Brazil and Peru an eye-opening glimpse at life both rich ...
Anniston Star (subscription) - Anniston,AL,USA
We had our eyes opened to life as it is for those from the mountains and
the rainforest the next day. These people come to Lima for a
"better life," but ...
New exhibits unveiled at SEA LIFE Centres
Group Travel Organiser - Hastings,England,UK
Meanwhile, at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham, ‘Amazon
Attack’ features dangerous creatures from the Amazon river and
rainforest including ...
Apr 4
Malthus' Theories Revisited As Global Grain Prices Rise
CattleNetwork.com - Overland Park,KS,USA
"Pressures to increase deforestation to up crop output will increase,
with the Amazon Rainforest under particular threat," said the
Earth Policy Institute's ...
Book Review: The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
CityWire.co.uk - London,England,UK
... the Rift valley in Ethiopia, Mayan villages in Guatemala, and
the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, as well as affluent countries such
Sweden, France...
Apr 3
Chevron Accused of Lying to Shareholders Over $16 Billion Damages ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
... human rights catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest by
dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste, said representatives of the
Amazon Defense Coalition...
Co-operative Bank’s ethical card has lowest rates
Banking Times - UK
Firstly, it supports the protection of the Amazon rainforest, and
secondly it offers a lower rate (7%) for selected partners deemed to be
more ethically ...
Win a luxury 10-night holiday to Peru with Excedo and KLM
Times Online - UK
South America is home to some of the most spectacular and diverse natural
wonders on Earth: the vast Amazon River, the largest tropical
rainforest in the ...
Big Amazon Fish takes adventurers to Brazil
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
They take clients on fishing trips and eco tours on the Amazon River
in Esteves's home country. "Our guests experience the
rainforest jungle...
Land invasions undermine Amazon forest law
Mongabay.com - USA
Land invasions are undermining a Brazilian law that requires ranchers to
keep 80 percent of their land forested, according to reports from the
Amazon state ...
The great carbon con: Can offsetting really help to save the planet?
Independent - London,England,UK
... Brown on deforestation and green energy, provoked the ire of the
Brazilian government with his purchase, in 2006, of 400000 acres of
Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon: A Cousteau Family Adventure
TheShowBuzz - New York,NY,USA
"We've managed to cut down 20 percent of the Amazon rain
forest," said Fabien. "And that's within a quarter century.
We're talking about a pace of about 1 ...
Expert: Chevron should pay $7B to $16B for Amazon pollution
USA Today - USA
Chevron Corp. should pay at least $7 billion and as much as $16.3 billion
for polluting the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, a court-appointed
expert has ...
Apr 2
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
Mongabay.com - USA
I've been reading my entire adult life about the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest, yet it's still happening. What's the
problem? Frankly, lack of money.
Chevron Gets Adverse Legal Opinion
Briefing.com - Burlingame,CA,USA
... environmental contamination caused to Ecuador's Amazon
rainforest during a 26-year period when the oil giant operated a large
concession in the country.
Court Expert Smacks Chevron With Up to $16 Billion in Damages for ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
(NYSE: CVX) pay a minimum of $7 billion and up to $16 billion to compensate
for environmental contamination caused to Ecuador's Amazon
rainforest during a ...
EcoHip taken over by Green CO2
AboutProperty.co.uk - London,UK
Working with Ecotribal, EcoHip is helping to pay for trees to be planted in
the Amazon rainforest by donating money for the planting of one tree
from the ...
Fuel or folly? Ethanol and the law of unintended consequences
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... and encroachments upon the Amazon rainforest due to
Brazilian sugar cane production — all these developments indicate that
biofuels are turning out to ...
SEEING IS BELIEVING?
NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA
... showing a flock of them flapping thousands of miles across the
frigid Antarctic to the Amazon rainforest, you know all too well
what it’s like to be ...
Apr 1
4/17: San Francisco Premier of Documentary JUSTICIA NOW
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Mar tin O'Brien ‘Justicia Now’ is a documentary about
ChevronTexaco's toxic legacy in the Northern Ecuadorian region of the
Amazon rainforest - and a ...
Did our April Fools penguin story get you in a flap?
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
... a BBC1 nature documentary called Miracles of Evolution was to
feature amazing footage of penguins flying and even heading off to the
Amazon rainforest.
Mercury Research Bears Fruit in the Amazon
CRDI - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
As new settlers streamed into the region, the rainforest was being
cleared for pasture and farmland at a rapid rate. Tropical downpours washed
topsoil from ...
COUSTEAU FAMILY RETURN TO THE AMAZON, TO AIR ON PBS: 31/03/2008 ...
MaximsNews Network - New York,NY,USA
Emptying into the great Atlantic Ocean , it flows through the world’s
largest tropical rainforest, the vast, natural theater where
evolution has gone wild...
Mar 31
Corn's connection to the rainforest
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson,MI,USA
... wetlands and rainforests to plant corn. • Deforestation
accounts for 20 percent of all current carbon emissions. • The basic
problems is that the Amazon ...
Top Three Quizzical Quotes at State of the Planet
It's Getting Hot In Here - Washington,DC,USA
“The Amazon Rainforest is not being used for sugar cane for
ethanol. This is absolutely wrong! The Amazon region is far from the
consumer centers and ports ...
Adventure travel: Young travelers seek more authentic experiences
MLive.com - MI,USA
... such as this tropical frog, was a part of the
education-adventure-service trip for Hope College students to the Amazon
rainforest and Galapagos Islands.
Food versus fuel, or can we have both?
Scientific American - USA
And planting more sugarcane displaces other crops or pasture, which can
then lead to more clearing of the Amazon rainforest, as a recent
study in Science ...
Putting a value on rainforests
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
According to Dr Antonio Nobre, of Brazil's Institute for Research in
the Amazon, the Amazon tree canopy releases 20bn tonnes of
moisture each day into the ...
Pupil’s Amazon plan
ic Wales - United Kingdom
A GROUP of green fingered schoolchildren will be heading for the Amazon
Rainforest next year – if they can raise the funds to travel.
...
Coalition of rainforest nations complain
The New Nation - Bangladesh
A 15-country coalition of rainforest nations has complained that the
UN climate change mechanism encourages countries to replant forests they
have cut down...
'Tele-learning' gets top marks in remote Amazon schools
AFP -
Then comes an hour-long trek through dense Amazonian rainforest. The
school's teacher, Lisandro Augusto, is a former trucker who switched
professions when ...
Planet Earth, Part Two
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia
The third episode, “Jungles”, heads to remote New Guinea
rainforest to film the courtship rituals of three species of birds
of paradise.
Mar 30
A girl, her parrot and the man at the shore
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
On a hunch, the fifth-grader scoped out one likely hide-out, the known
watering hole of many a scofflaw parrot - the Rainforest Cafe.
...
Racing to hug those trees
Economist - UK
A British outfit called Canopy Capital is betting that many of the natural
functions of the Iwokrama rainforest in Guyana—such as storing
carbon...
Mar 29
Guest Soapbox: Destroyed forests bad for humans, wildlife
Hi-Desert Star - Yucca Valley,CA,USA
... that equates our forest with the other major forests of the
world, for example, the Amazon rainforest or the redwood forests of
Northern California.
Dishy picks
Dispatch Online - South Africa
Travel deep into the heart of the Amazon rainforest and find out how
a jungle works by focusing on one giant tree and all the life that lives
around it.
Mar 28
An Ecuadorean Environmental Ultimatum
Energy Tribune - Houston,TX,USA
... the government roughly $350 million a year for the next two
decades, or see oil companies drill in the pristine heart of Ecuador’s
Amazon rainforest.
Sister Dorothy Stang, slain in Brazil in 2005, still lives on in the
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
... the name she went by when she began missionary work in Brazil in
1966 until two assailants shot and killed her in the Amazon
rainforest in 2005.
Mar 27
Paying for biofuels in your supermarket
People's Weekly World - USA
Brazil’s hundreds of miles of sugarcane plantations for ethanol have come
at the expense of huge areas of the Amazon rainforest basin. Asian
rainforests are ...
Investor puts his money in the rainforest
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
Iwokrama is home to the same level of biodiversity as the neighbouring
Brazilian Amazon but, unlike the Amazon, it is not
disappearing.
Million acres of Guyanese rainforest to be saved in groundbreaking ...
Independent - London,England,UK
The Amazon generates the rain that falls on the vast soya estates of
Sao Paulo, helping to make Brazil the second biggest agricultural exporter
in the world ...
Mar 26
A River rafting Amazonian adventure
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
The annual Great Amazon River Raft Race in the rainforest
waters of Peru is considered just as extreme, but reasons entirely
different since jungle is like ...
SEC Complaint Lodged Against Chevron for Hiding $10 Billion ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"Chevron created an environmental catastrophe in Ecuador and as a
result thousands of vulnerable rainforest residents are suffering
from dangerous toxic ...
Dolphin woos with wood and grass
BBC News - UK
... researchers studied the dolphin's unique courtship behaviour
over three years in the Mamiraua Reserve, a flooded rainforest area
on the Amazon.
Two Turkey Run fourth-grade teachers to travel to the Amazon
Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute,IN,USA
They are heading to the Amazon Rainforest. The pair learned recently
that they are the lucky recipients of a Teacher Creativity Fellowship,
enabling them to ...
Mar 25
Sting on green trip
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
The 56-year-old the Grammy winner, whose real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas
Sumner, and his wife Trudie Styler are active in the Save Amazon
Rainforest ...
Sting comes calling yet again
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
The singer who has so far sold 105 million records and his wife Trudie are
extremely active in the ‘save Amazon Rainforest’ campaign.
...
Rainforest Action Network's new pledge petition
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
Soy has become a leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon as
Brazil has overtaken the United States as the world's largest exporter
of soy...
Peruvian Tribe Takes on Oil Giant
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
The Achuar tribe, inhabitants of the Amazon Rainforest of
north-eastern Peru for thousands of years, alleges that Occidental
Petroleum has contaminated ...
Paying for biofuels in your supermarket
People's Weekly World - USA
Brazil's hundreds of miles of sugarcane plantations for ethanol have
come at the expense of huge areas of the Amazon rainforest basin.
Asian rainforests are ...
Railroad could reduce Amazon deforestation relative to proposed ...
Mongabay.com - USA
Building a railroad instead of improving a major highway could reduce
deforestation and biodiversity loss in the heart of the Amazon
rainforest says an ...
Mar 24
Ocean City countersues over rainforest boardwalk wood
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... in ways that would be less damaging to the rainforests
than the traditional clear-cutting that is destroying vast sections of the
Amazon jungle.
I'M CERTAIN THAT I MAY HAVE WON THE LOTTERY
Express & Echo - Exeter,England,UK
To be honest if it is a toss-up between the lottery's good causes fund
and me, my vote goes to me, much as I love the Amazon rainforest,
small invertebrates ...
Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution
BBC News - UK
The story of the Achuar tribe living in the Amazon rainforest of
north-eastern Peru is one of them. Last year, they filed a class action
lawsuit against oil ...
Mar 22
Rounding up all the news
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Coca plantations and a fully-equipped laboratory for making cocaine were
found for the first time in a Brazilian part of the Amazon
rainforest.
Mar 21
Family adventures in the Amazon
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
While this is the leafy, rainforest section of the trip, there’s
also an urban part (Rio de Janeiro), a waterfalls part (at Igua=E7u, on the
Argentinian ...
Ecuador's Yasuni Park: Oil Exploration or Nature Protection?
CorpWatch.org - Oakland,CA,USA
... a Waorani woman from the Ecuadorian Amazon, was born in
the Yasuni National Park, a 2.5 million acre primary tropical
rainforest at the intersection of ...
They're Producing Cocaine in Brazil Now, Too
Drug War Chronicle - Washington,DC,USA
The discovery shocked authorities, as coca plants do not normally thrive in
the dense, humid Amazon rain forest. [UPI] I suppose these precious
rainforests ...
‘Civilising’ Brazil’s native Indians
Thought Leader - Johannesburg,South Africa
... being the world’s fourth-largest carbon emitter; 78% of this
is attributed to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, 60% of
which lies in Brazil.
Business Beat: San Clemente Business News
San Clemente Times - San Clemente,CA,USA
... launched Amazon Energy, a new organic energy drink made
with the a=E7a=ED berry and other antioxidant-rich Amazon rainforest
superfruits and botanicals.
Mar 20
Mar tin Strel`s Amazon Swim - for Peace in the Middle East, Dalai ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Q: You say, you swam the Amazon for clean rivers, rainforest,
but also for peace in the Middle East and for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
...
Mar 19
Tropical forest changes 'explained by multiple factors'
MyNews.in - Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh,India
Recent studies in the Amazon rainforest have suggested that changes
such as the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (see Carbon emissions
'''may alter ...
Young Vic explores the rainforests
Guardian - UK
The theatre has just started work on a year-long season of shows exploring
the popular culture of Brazil's Amazon region, and the life and
legacy of the ...
First coca crop found in Brazilian rainforest
Guardian - UK
Drug cartels have moved into Brazil's Amazon and are producing
cocaine deep in the rainforest, opening a new frontier in South
America's narcotics trade.
Strategic Forest, Paper & Packaging Sustainability News
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
The action exposes Europe’s role in fuelling the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest by buying timber illegally logged in the region.
...
Mar 18
Satellite image reveals the floristic variation of the Amazonas region
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
In her dissertation, Ms Thessler examined the field observations made by
the University of Turku Amazon research group in the
rainforests of Ecuador...
Metals: Big Business in the Amazon
BusinessWeek - USA
The company has committed to protecting primary rainforest of around
1.2 million hectares (2.96 million acres) that surrounds its mining
properties...
Ship with Amazon wood tracked to Europe, blocked by activists
Greenpeace International - Amsterdam,Netherlands
Illegal logging is fuelling the destruction of the Amazon rainforest
and this in turn is driving global climate change, harming biodiversity and
communities ...
Mar 17
Amazon Disgrace
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
Despite protests from environmental and human rights groups, Peru's
government plans to auction off dozens of parcels of remote
rainforest for oil and gas ...
First coca find in Brazil Amazon
BBC News - UK
The authorities in Brazil say it was satellite images of a large area of
Amazon rainforest that had been cleared which first attracted their
attention.
Mar 16
The Tree Farmer
Farm Bureau News - USA
By Stewart Truelsen When trees are in the news, the story is often about
the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest. When an entertainer or
sports figure pops ...
Mar 15
One and a Half Acres of Rainforest VANISHES Every Second!
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
I just want to raise at least $100 grand to help save a stunning virgin
rainforest. an urgent request went out from deep in the heart of
the Amazon ...
Vital forests
Sandusky Register - OH, USA
Rainforests are critical in maintaining the Earth's limited
supply of drinking and fresh water. One-fifth of the world's fresh
water is found in the Amazon ...
Mar 14
Amazon environmentalist gunned down in Peru
Mongabay.com - USA
After reporting a truck loaded with mahogany illegally logged from the
Amazon rainforest, Don Julio Garcia Agapito, a Peruvian
environmentalist was gunned ...
The 'war' on biofuels comes to Brussels
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
Sugar cane today takes up 0.4 percent of Brazil's territory, while the
Amazon rainforest covers some 40 percent of the country.
Tea to help lose weight
Mar ie Claire.co.uk - London,England,UK
The herbal brew is made from the leaves of a small tree that grows in the
Amazon rainforest. Already the number one beverage for the
beautiful...
Leasing the environment to protect it
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... for instance, equals one acre of rainforest leased for a
year. Rice calls it an Amazon.com that is "actually doing
something for the Amazon.
Ecuador and Colombia, the maelstrom for border
Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias - Caracas,Venezuela
... framed at its left by the Andean range and to its right by the
lush Amazon rainforest, with high rainfall, high humidity and
oppressive temperatures.
Mar 13
The rise of high-end escorted tours
MSNBC - USA
Our favorite on the list: a nine-day Amazon and Rio de Janeiro
cruise-tour for $3249, with two summer departures. The appeal of the
Amazon rainforest is ...
Industry-driven road-building to fuel Amazon deforestation
Mongabay.com - USA
Unofficial road-building will be a major driver of deforestation and
land-use change in the Amazon rainforest, according to an analysis
published in ...
'Sister Dorothy' documentary sweeps SXSW film awards
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
The film follows the courtroom drama at the trials of Sister Dorothy's
killers and explores her life's work in the Brazilian
rainforest.
Mar 11
Skoll Foundation puts $1M toward indigenous groups, conservation ...
Mongabay.com - USA
"Indigenous peoples know, manage and protect the rainforest far
better than we do," said Dr. Plotkin, President of the Amazon
Conservation Team.
From the Galapagos to Brazil's Rainforest
Farms.com - Guelph,Ontario,Canada
Despite some misconceptions the rainforest remains alive and well.
The Amazon River is the largest fresh water river in the world and
traces to two ...
Amazon Corridors Far Too Narrow
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
PROTECTED forest strips buffering rivers and streams of the Amazon
rainforest should be significantly wider than the current legal
requirement, according to ...
Skoll Foundation Adds Eleven Pioneering Organizations to its ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
Since its inception, ACT has mapped and provided land management for 40
million acres of Amazon rainforest and anticipates reaching 80
million acres in ...
Two weeks can change a life
Inverness Courier - Inverness,Scotland,UK
By Val Sweeney THE mosquito-infested Amazon rainforest is a world
away from the smart surroundings of the Heathmount Hotel in Inverness.
...
Westport Couples Home Safe After Amazon Ship Disaster
Westport Now - Westport,CT,USA
From there, they went to Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian
rainforest, where they caught a flight to the capital of Lima and
then home.
Mar 10
Lost in the Amazon
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
Gurupa is a rare success story in the threatened Amazon rainforest.
The town is buried so deep in the jungle that the most intrepid traveler
would be hard ...
Emissions from deforestation offset by increased tree growth in ...
Mongabay.com - USA
A new study, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
B, this trend may slow in the future, causing the world's largest
rainforest to ...
Mar 9
Inside the Farc camps in Ecuador
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... the bombardment that turned this remote, mosquito-ridden corner
of the Amazon rainforest in northern Ecuador into an international
flashpoint last week.
Mar 7
Local calendar
Saugus Advertiser - Beverly,MA,USA
The lecture will discuss preserving the Amazon rainforest through
sustainable aquarium fisheries. Hear about the surprising role that tiny
fish play in not ...
Weekly green web: the art of waste
Greenpeace UK - London,UK
... "the different experiences and opinions of the people that
live and work in the Amazon rainforest", as well as raising
awareness about climate change.
Switching Majors and Values in Ecuador
CU Columbia Spectator - New York,NY,USA
It was a program that allowed me to travel to a biological reserve in the
middle of a pristine primary rain forest in the Amazon, where I took
a plane...
Mar 6
Birmingham Airport backs Brazilian rainforest project
Cheapflights.co.uk - London,UK
As part of the project, money will also be spent on classroom equipment,
solar powered internet and a boat for a school in the heart of the
Amazon called ...
Brazil fails to implement deforestation plan - Amazon destruction ...
Mongabay.com - USA
... the Brazilian government has failed to enact reforms designed to
slow deforestation in the Amazon rainforest says Greenpeace, an
environmental group.
Brazil town at centre of logging crackdown
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... square kilometres of rainforest had already been lost by
December, it is going to be a major challenge to keep Amazon
deforestation on a downward trend.
Brazil cracks down on illegal logging
United Press International - USA
BRASILIA, Brazil, March 3 (UPI) -- Brazil has shut down three illegal
lumber mills that were operating inside the country's Amazon
rainforest...
People need to be more active in preserving rainforests
TCU Daily Skiff - Fort Worth,TX,USA
The video is about a man named Johan Eliasch who recently purchased 400000
acres of the Amazon rainforest. I must admit, the idea that one man
could posses ...
Mar 5
Airport in Bid to Protect Rainforest
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
The airport's sponsorship also includes buying classroom equipment,
solarpowered internet and a boat for a Escola Estadual school in the heart
of the Amazon ...
Moses: Let My People Get High?
Forbes - NY,USA
... reportedly shows that two plants in the Sinai desert have a
similar molecular structure to a powerful plant concoction from the
Amazon rainforest.
Rainforest Action Network Joins Brazilian and Paraguayan Groups in ...
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland,ME,USA
Cargill has also drawn fire for its soy port in Santar=E9m, in the Brazilian
Amazon. The port’s opening in 2003 doubled deforestation rates in
the surrounding ...
Sri Lanka has enormous respect for trees
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In the rainforest, leeches hear you squeal and they love it. The
little critters almost ruined my first experience of a Sri Lankan
rainforest.
Mar 4
Adventurous pupils need help
Sunderland Echo - Sunderland,England,UK
The six Easington Community Science College pupils are set to explore the
Amazon rainforest, the Arctic and the Himalayas as part of a British
Schools ...
How accurate is long-term climatology data from the Amazon?
Mongabay.com - USA
With some models forecasting significant change in the Amazon
rainforest over the next century, it has been unclear whether the
temperature and ...
Mar 3
The Amazon Jungle Comes Alive in the Concrete Jungle
CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
Exhibit-goers will be able to bring a piece of the rainforests home
when they buy crafts made by artisans in the Brazilian Amazon, with
a portion of the ...
Brazil Through Foreign Eyes
Gringoes.com - Sao Paulo,Brazil
While doing exchange, I was fortunate enough to travel to the beautiful
beaches of the northeast of Brazil, to the Amazon rainforest, to the
Iguassu Falls in ...
Brazil Sends in Police, Sacrifices Jobs to Protect Rainforest
Bloomberg - USA
Environmental groups are pressing Brazil to halt deforestation in the
Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, after logging
accelerated in the second half ...
King of soya: environmental vandal or saviour of the world's poor?
Guardian - UK
Wearing jeans and work boots, he can be found on a typical day driving a
battered Fiat car on one of his farms south of the Amazon
rainforest.
Mar 2
Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years
Mongabay.com - USA
More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed
within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue
apace...
Mar 1
Daytripping With Kyle Jordan: ECHO Global Farm
Winknews.com - Fort Myers, Florida, USA
Maybe you want to see the Amazon rainforest, but you don't want
to travel all the way around the world. You don't have to, because you
can see them all in ...
Brazil takes battle to the Amazon
Financial Times - London, England, UK
... symbolise the conflict between those who see the Amazon
rainforest as an expendable resource and those seeking to slow its
rapid rate of disappearance.
Logging in Brazil
Sky News Australia - Australia
Logging in the Amazon rainforest has once again become divisive
issue in Brazilian politics, after satellite images taken in January
revealed significant ...
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