BBC News : Maria Esther de Capovilla - officially the world’s oldest woman - has died in Ecuador aged 116, relatives said.Capovilla died at dawn on Sunday in the coastal city of Guayaquil after succumbing to pneumonia. Her funeral was planned for Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Astor, FOX News : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Scientists on Monday unveiled a replica of a skeleton scientists said was from the largest dinosaur species yet discovered in Brazil _ a mid-sized herbivore that roamed central Brazil some 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period.A scientific description of the dinosaur, which represents a previously unknown species and measured some 13 yards from head to tail, was published on Aug. 11 in Brazilian National Museum’s bulletin. Read the rest of this entry »
Taipei Times, Ecuador. EMERGENCY: Tungurahua volcano has covered a large area in ash, and those fleeing the scene not only require food and medicine, but feed for their livestock as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Mirsky, Scientific American: Four score and seven years and four score and nine more years ago, a tortoise hatched in the Galápagos. She spent the past half a century known as Harriet. For more than a century before that, she was called Harry. Before that she almost was called dinner, but fate had other plans. Her heart, which began beating when Abraham Lincoln was barely out of his teens, finally stopped on June 23. Her fame came from her longevity and from her celebrity friends. She spent her last years at the Australia Zoo in Queensland, run by Terri and Steve “the Crocodile Hunter” Irwin. And she was most likely rescued from the soup tureen that she strongly resembled by Charles Darwin. Yes, that Charles Darwin, born the same day as Lincoln. Read the rest of this entry »
Russell A. Mittermeier, International Herald Tribune: A few weeks ago, I flew over the Amazon in a single-engine Cessna to a reunion with the leaders of the Kayapó nation, one of South America’s proudest and most famous indigenous groups. For decades, 7,000 Kayapó have defended their 113,000-square kilometer, Cuba-sized homeland in the Brazilian states of Pará and Mato Grosso from incursions by speculators, ranchers, gold miners, loggers and squatters. Read the rest of this entry »
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Media:The Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA USA
Date:August 7, 2006
By Nick Squires, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor: Antarctica under siege. Stunning beauty and the promise of oil and minerals are bringing more people to the once-pristine continent.
At the bottom of the world, more than two miles beneath the wind-blasted surface of Antarctica, sits a wonder of the last untouched continent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Media: ABC News - USA
Date: August 7,2006
Rare Cloud Formation Seen Over the Skies of Antarctica, Scientists Say
The Associated Press. Some of the coldest temperatures on Earth brought a rare cloud formation to the skies over Antarctica, scientists said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS/608060323/1326
Media: The Ledger - Lakeland, FL, USA
Date: August 7, 2006
By Arthur Frommer. To most Americans, even those who have never been there, Costa Rica is their favorite tropical destination. But although everyone wants to visit it, hardly anyone has any notion of what exactly you do once you arrive. That’s what this column hopes to correct. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article:http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=8482
Media: Merco Press - Montevideo, Uruguay
Date: August 7, 2006
Chile and Argentina agreed to turn 4.7 million hectares of land in northern Patagonia into a biosphere reserve, safeguarding some of the region’s most magnificent wildlife. Read the rest of this entry »
