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Original article: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004763.html
Media: World Changing - USA
Date: July 31, 2006

Altering Antarctica, Geoff Manaugh: There are a wide variety of overlooked and forgotten ways in which humans participate with, and alter, the biological systems around them. A few seeds, trapped in the soles of our shoes, can cross oceans with us in airplanes, bringing gardens, and weeds, and parasite species to the other side of the earth; trace amounts of infectious diseases can cling to our clothes and decimate livestock several nations away; snakes, rats, spiders, mosquitoes – all can easily ride the ships and planes of globalization. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article: http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/travel/30surfacing.html?ref=travel 
Media: The New York Times - United State
Date: July 31,2006

BOBBING off the coast of jungly Belize, south of hard-partying Yucatán, with one pedicured toe in the Caribbean, Ambergris Caye is ripe for picking. Throw in mangroves populated with exotic birds and crocodiles, and a boisterous night life fueled by cheap beer and new resorts — not to mention the Western Hemisphere’s longest barrier reef — and Ambergris might just unseat Vieques as the next Caribbean hot spot. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14121009/
Media: MSNBC - USA
Date: July 31,2006

Brazil’s air force and navy will transport more than 100 penguins to Antarctica next month after the flightless birds were stranded on Rio de Janeiro beaches. Read the rest of this entry »

Oritinal article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073100523.html
Media: Washington Post - United State
Date: July 31,2006

LIMA, Peru — President Alan Garcia cut government salaries, including his own, on Monday, three days after announcing a long list of austerity measures in his inaugural address. Garcia, whose 1985-1990 government was plagued by mismanagement and corruption that left Peru nearly bankrupt, blasted outgoing President Alejandro Toledo for spending lavishly while failing to help Peru’s poor. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, the second day of my trip, I drove down to Dominical, en route stopping off at Matapalo to see the Bahari Beach Bungalows (www.baharibeach.com). This is a joint venture between the Boshoffs and a European couple, and many guests at Rafiki finish off their trip with a 2-3 night stay at Bahari. I could see why. There are 4 walk-in tents, similar in style to those at Rafiki with their own spacious bathroom, that cluster round a pool and look right on to the long Matapalo beach. Unlike Manuel Antonio, where beaches can be pretty crowded at weekends and the high season, you are likely to have most of the Matapalo beach to yourself. So you can relax at heart’s content. And you can also do any of the available activities, such as horse riding along the beach or into the hills, taking a trip to Manuel Antonio, going on the canopy tour at Hacienda Baru, or visiting the Nayauca waterfalls. Read the rest of this entry »

If you avoid rain and traffic, which I somehow managed to, the trip down to Quepos is really very attractive and very changeable. 3 hours to Quepos was pretty good going considering I was going at sightseeing pace.

Neither Quepos nor Manuel Antonio was the destination. I was heading on towards Dominical, first checking out Rafiki Safari Lodge. Well before Quepos, though, I saw an intriguing sign for Xandari Lodge. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article: http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1691737.htm
Media: ABC Science Online - Australia
Date: July 24, 2006

Colder Antarctic waters drove the evolution of deep sea octopuses, suggests new research.Australian researcher Dr Jan Strugnell of Queen’s University Belfast and the British Antarctic Survey says the formation of ocean currents around the continent millions of years ago provided the right conditions for ocean creatures to evolve. Read the rest of this entry »

Original article: http://www.republic-news.org/archive/143-repub/143_dan_adleman_che.htm
Media: The Republic -Vancouver, Canada
Date:  July, 24, 2006

Recent transformations of politics on the continent wrought by Chavez and Morales indicate a new direction inspired by the legendary revolutionary 
by Dan Adleman In Achieving Our Country, Richard Rorty, one of America’s most interesting political philosophers, wrote, “Those who hope to persuade a nation to exert itself need to remind their country of what it can take pride in as well as what it should be ashamed of. They must tell inspiring stories about episodes and figures in the nation’s past. . . . Nations rely on artists and intellectuals to create images of, and to tell stories about, the national past. Competition for political leadership is in part a competition between differing stories about a nation’s self-identity, and between differing symbols of its greatness.” Read the rest of this entry »

Original article
Media: The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date: July 24, 2006

LEADING European supermarkets, food manufacturers and fast-food chains, including McDonald’s, have pledged not to use soya grown illegally in the Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »

Original articles:http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2799
Media: People and the Planet - London, UK
Date: July 24,2006

Twenty per cent of Costa Rica’s terrority has been granted ‘protected status’, yet conservationists worry that biodiversity remains threatened without long-term financial commitment to the country’s national parks. Read the rest of this entry »