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May 31
Galapagos tortoises safe from volcano
Radio Australia - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A volcano in the remote Pacific Galapagos islands that's spilled
molten lava is not a threat to 100-year-old giant tortoises living around
the crater. ...
Galapagos eruption no threat to giant turtles
Reuters - USA
By Alonso Soto QUITO (Reuters) - A volcano in the Galapagos islands
that spewed molten lava is not a threat to 100-year-old giant tortoises
living around ...
'I'm going to see the world'; Teen hopes to become youngest person ...
St. Catharines Standard - St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Sunderland will sail across the
Atlantic, pass through the Panama Canal then visit the Galapagos
Islands before ...
Volcano erupts in Galapagos Islands, no threat to tortoises or people
International Herald Tribune - France
AP QUITO, Ecuador: A volcano on the largest of the Galapagos Islands
has begun erupting and authorities are evaluating possible dangers to the
island's ...
Galapagos tortoises may be airlifted to escape volcano eruption
ABC Online - Australia
Officials in the Galapagos islands say they may have to airlift
100-year-old tortoises away from a volcano which is spewing molten lava.
...
Galapagos volcano eruption threatens giant turtles
Reuters - USA
By Alonso Soto QUITO, May 30 (Reuters) - A volcano in the Galapagos
islands spewed molten lava, threatening 100-year-old giant tortoises living
around the ...
Galapagos volcano eruption threatens giant turtles
Reuters - USA
By Alonso Soto QUITO (Reuters) - A volcano in the Galapagos islands
spewed molten lava, threatening 100-year-old giant tortoises living around
the crater...
Giant tortoises threatened as Galapagos volcano erupts
AFP -
QUITO (AFP) =97 A volcano on the largest of the Galapagos islands
has erupted and is threatening rare giant tortoises that live in the area,
...
Volcano erupts in Galapagos Islands
The Associated Press -
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) =97 A volcano on the largest of the Galapagos
Islands has begun erupting, park officials said Friday. Rangers and tour
guides spotted lava ...
May 30
Ecoventura Helps Guests Become Responsible Visitors in the Galapagos
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
A visionary travel company, Ecoventura, whose mission is to safeguard the
Galapagos ecosystem by offering environmentally sensitive cruises
that minimize ...
California teen hopes to be youngest to sail solo around the world
Seattle Times - United States
His eyes widen as he lists some of his intended destinations: the Solomon
Islands, Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, the Galapagos
Islands. ...
Companies to use stem cells in discovery of new drugs
SmartBrief - Washington, DC, USA
California Stem Cells will supply neural cells over the next year to
BioFocus DPI, a subsidiary of Belgian drugmaker Galapagos NV, for
use in developing ...
May 28
The height of exploration - Ecuador & Galapagos
Easier (press release) - Chester, UK
Next, head to the Galapagos archipelago for a 7-night voyage around
the islands, viewing their unique wildlife including migrating Humpback
Whale (June)...
Galapagos confident of profit turnaround in services unit
OutSourcing-Pharma.com - London, UK
By Kirsty Barnes 27-May-2008 - In a business update discussing its first
quarter results of 2008, Galapagos said it is on track to pull its
services ...
May 25
Thanks for the memories
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park, NJ, USA
I've had a ball and am grateful for having been able to visit many
dream destinations, from Egypt to the Galapagos Islands, and share
the experiences with ...
Humans are the danger
guardian.co.uk - UK
I first became aware of their plight in 1999, on an assignment in the
Galapagos Islands. Instead of photographing them, I wound up cutting
dying sharks from ...
May 23
Seeing places before they disappear
Budget Travel - New York, NY, USA
A few notables include the Great Barrier Reef (haven't been there yet),
and the Galapagos (haven't made it there yet, either).
...
Best bets for Fringe fun
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando, FL, USA
'Galapagos': Three guys with great faces and another with a
great voice take you on a tour of the strange and arresting wildlife in the
Galapagos Islands...
Rename Galapagos for $1000 in Booze
BlackBook Magazine - New York, NY, USA
In a similar vein, Brooklyn's famed Galapagos bar is offering an
$1000 bar tab to whoever comes up with their new name. Deadline appears
open-ended...
Barnie's announces first specialty coffee since founder ...
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando, FL, USA
The coffee, called Galapagos Peaberry Select, will be unveiled May
29 at a fundraiser for The Chelonian Institute, a Florida-based nonprofit
dedicated to ...
Galapagos wildlife thrives in safe haven
Canada.com - Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
A nesting pair of blue-footed boobies on Galapagos Islands. Still, I
felt as unthreatened as I was unthreatening. This wild sea mammal,
obviously more a ...
Touching emotions, touching the mind
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
She took off to Cambridge, where she read Charles Darwin's notebooks,
and the Galapagos Islands where Darwin developed his ideas about
natural selection and ...
May 22
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
DVDTOWN.com - USA
The arrival at the Galapagos Islands is pivotal for one subplot
contained in the film. Maturin is a naturalist and pines to discover new
species of animal ...
Playing post office
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
These goofy-looking seabirds graced the front of a postcard I'd sent to
myself about three weeks earlier -- April 3 -- from the Galapagos
Islands.
Galapagos Signs Research Agreement with UCL
HTScreening (press release) - Sudbury, UK
Galapagos NV has announced that is has signed a drug discovery
research agreement with UCL (University College London).
Galapagos' BioFocus DPI service ...
May 20
Capital of Ecuador gets a makeover
Los Angeles Times - CA, USA
... efforts have helped bring back middle-class residents and
encouraged tourists headed to the Galapagos Islands or the Amazon to
linger for a few days.
Climate change hitting bird species, shows study
Reuters - USA
The population of rare birds such as the Floreana mockingbird of the
Galapagos Islands or the spoon-billed sandpiper, which breeds in
northeastern Russia ...
Ecology group wins grant for Galapagos tortoise work
The Missoulian - Missoula, MT, USA
Ecology Project will use the grant to improve its Galapagos program
and to help local students become conservation leaders. The BBC fund is a
grant-giving ...
Galapagos signs research agreement with UCL
FOXBusiness - USA
Galapagos' BioFocus DPI service division will perform medicinal
chemistry services for a UCL research project. It is also intended that
BioFocus DPI will ...
May 19
Teacher explores Galapagos Islands
Arizona Republic - Phoenix, AZ, USA
Oakwood Elementary teacher Dennis Rees, and his principal, Paul Bower,
embarked on a journey of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands.
...
Galapagos Islands: 'A zoo without cages'
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Fifteen of us -- six couples and three women who left our husbands at home
-- were sailing through the Galapagos Islands last month on an
eight-day cruise ...
May 17
Galapagos Wind
Living on the Earth - Cambridge, MA, USA
The Galapagos is a wind-swept archipelago, famous for
inspiring Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Now even the wind there
is evolving...
Tracing early stages of species differentiation: ecological ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York, NY, USA
The Galapagos archipelago provides an ideal opportunity to examine
the evolutionary processes of local divergence in an isolated marine
environment.
May 16
Amorous turtles and flightless birds
Redlands Daily Facts - Redlands, CA, USA
On the last two days of our tour of the Galapagos, we visited four
islands. The evening before we left for the first, Isabela, a sign-up sheet
labeled ...
I never have time on my hands - or even on my wrist
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool, England, UK
... bee) while the slowest live on and on (the Galapagos
tortoise for more than 200 years), bringing some truth to the expression
"live fast, die young".
Saga ship marks anniversary of Darwin's birth
TravelMole - London, England, UK
The 352-passenger ship will visit the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica
and the Amazon Rainforest during its 2009 cruise schedule.
Name That Space in Williamsburg
Gothamist - NY, USA
Matt Roff & Co. decided not to name their new venue Natural Selection
after all...so as Galapagos moves to DUMBO, the space is going to
need a moniker ...
The natural selection for wildlife cruises
Easier (press release) - Chester, UK
The 352-passenger ship will visit the rich habitats once trodden by
Britain's greatest naturalist - born in 1809 - throughout the
Galapagos Islands...
May 13
Preclinical services news in brief
OutSourcing-Pharma.com - London, UK
By Kirsty Barnes 12-May-2008 - In this week's review of activity within
the preclinical research services arena, news has emerged involving
Galapagos...
Our own Galapagos
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
So it was only a matter of time before I visited Kangaroo Island, a
450000-hectare haven often labelled "Australia's
Galapagos". Separated from the South ...
May 11
Dispatch from the Galapagos: The summer I gave up meat
Gadling - Santa Monice, CA, USA
by Jerry Guo May 11th 2008 @ 11:00AM Rachel Atkinson hops like a Darwin
finch from one volcanic outcropping to the next, then plunges into
ankle-deep mud.
May 10
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
DVD Talk - Portland, OR, USA
Bettany's Maturin is quiet and reserved, a naturalist far more
interested in collecting previously unknown specimens off the
Galapagos Islands than ...
Elmes grows new roots
Brooklyn Papers - Brooklyn, NY, USA
By Adam Rathe Robert Elmes stands on the area inside Galapagos which
will contain a bar-side lake. New location: Galapagos Art Space will
offer a sneak peak ...
Renaissance Man: Photos from the Garden
Concierge - New York, NY, USA
[READ MORE] Later on, I bumped into the garden's curator and told her
about my conversation with the woman studying Galapagos tomatoes. As
it turns out...
May 9
Renaissance Man: Galapagos Tomatoes
Concierge - New York, NY, USA
As it turns out, there are two species of tomato endemic to the
Galapagos. That means they don't natively grow anywhere but the
Galapagos Islands...
Jaws for thought
cairns.com.au - Cairns,QLD, Australia
... and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in
the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos
Islands, Ecuador.
May 7
Secrets of the very old
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Walter Bieri/AP The giant
Galapagos tortoises can live more than a century and keep growing
for 30 or 40 years to ...
May 6
Lovelanders cross borders to lend health, construction skills to those
ReporterHerald.com - Loveland, CO, USA
For Lamoine and Ruth Pearson, their latest volunteerism voyage landed them
at the remote Galapagos Islands. Working with a missionary group,
...
Galapagos and Allergan enter drug discovery collaboration
FOXBusiness - USA
Total contract value for Galapagos could reach up to EUR 1.3 million
over the next 12 months, contingent on the number of BioFocus DPI compounds
screened.
Blu-ray Review: Master and Commander
TVPredictions.com - USA
This is especially clear when the ship arrives at the Galapagos. As
one who has been lucky enough to have been there recently, I can assure you
that the ...
Film-maker seeks to bust popular shark myths
ABC Online - Australia
His first port of call was the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific
ocean, a marine sanctuary - at least it is supposed to be. The kind of
place where it should ...
Useful Strangers or Faithful Friends?
Latin Business Chronicle - Miami, FL, USA
Early cases include visits in 1800 by US Captain Amasa Delano (an ancestor
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) who completed the first studies of the
Galapagos ...
Size isn=B4t everything!
Easier - Chester, UK
Tailor-made specialist, Trips Worldwide, has opted for more bijou vessels,
Coral I & II (both around 108 ft. long) for its four night
Galapagos wildlife ...
May 4
Quito cleans up act for visitors
Arkansas Online - Little Rock, AR, USA
BY AIMEE DOWL THE NEW YORK TIMES Quito, the bustling capital of Ecuador,
was for many years just a stopover for tourists heading to the
Galapagos.
May 3
Deadpan Debate: A Satirical Forum
Daily - University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
By Eric Uthus, Will Mari NOTE: All references to religion, communism, cults
and the Galapagos Islands are to be taken lightly and only for
comedic purposes.
Walking on water
Brooklyn Papers - Brooklyn, NY, USA
By Adam Rathe Galapagos Art Space, the Williamsburg institution that
is preparing to re-open in a newly renovated space at 16 Main St. in DUMBO,
...
City Tech Walk Shows the Green Side of Downtown Brooklyn
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn, NY, USA
Then, we moved on to Galapagos, a music club/theater originally in
Williamsburg whose new DUMBO location, originally a stable, is being
rebuilt.
May 1
Matthew Roff, Southpaw/Franklin Place/Natural Selection
Gothamist - NY, USA
Not satisfied with that, he also went in as co-owner of the (soon to be)
old Galapagos space -- where he'll be opening a new venue called
Natural Selection.
Kumuka adds new range of Galapagos tours
e-Travel Blackboard - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Kumuka has added five new Galapagos Explorer tours, spanning from
four through to eight days in duration. The Galapagos Explorer tours
allow travellers to ...
Marketing Galapagos Eco-tourism Company
MarketingProfs.com (subscription) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
How can I market my eco-tourism company for free on the internet? I want to
reach an audience of adventurous travelers who are interested in the unique
...
Bklyn music men form supergroup
BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
Five Brooklyn nightclub owners have joined forces to take over the
Galapagos Art Space this week, announcing big plans to change the
quirky Williamsburg ...
Franklin Park Brings Beer Garden to Crown Heights
Gothamist - NY, USA
As he works on the Galapagos space transformation, he somehow fit in
opening up a beer garden last Friday in Crown Heights. Franklin Park is a
2000-sq-ft ...
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