Galapagos Islands, Ecuador News Archives

Faculty recognizes the evolution of thought over a century and a half has done nothing to calm the academic fervor over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and Tech will host more of the debate next week.

By Jim Cook A million pound Charles Darwin-themed children's play centre is due to be opened in early 2010.

There is no shortage of people seeking to turn ghosts into gold and spooks into silver.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the US remains focused on reversing the "ongoing dire human consequences of genocide" in the Darfur region.

A Chinese man has built up a repertoire of more than 100 impressions. From the sounds of planes, trains and birds, Cheng Jiaqiang can reproduce an amazing array of sounds with his voice and mouth.

Known as one of the world's most beautiful natural refuges, the Galapagos Islands, located off the cost of Ecuador, are home to a variety of endangered species and a fragile ecosystem that fascinates visitors from around the globe.

For IWC , 2009 is the year of the Aquatimer relaunch. IWC's first Aquatimer saw daylight in 1967 and I doubt that one of these first models ever saw some water, because they didn't look very water resistant.

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species , forever changing man's fundamental view of life on Earth .

Just as the Galapagos Islands served to inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pacific Ocean paradise has motivated Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology applied biology student Johanna Moore toward a career in studying animal behavior.

Over the past 36 years, Meals On Wheels volunteers have delivered more than half a million meals and traveled many miles.

MEMBERS of Knaresborough Probus Club were fascinated by Sue Whalley's talk and her slides about her visit to the Galapagos Islands last year.

The scent of fresh avocados, potato cakes, and "tres leches" filled the air in the Hoblit Suite on Monday afternoon.

THE mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador's Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago a ' man.

Commonly known as the World Heritage Convention, the international treaty created to protect the world's treasures was created in 1972.

Ever since The New York Times named the Galapagos Islands No. 3 on its "44 Places to Go in 2009," we've bumped it up on our own travel checklist.

Drawn to the Galapagos Islands by their booming tourism industry, thousands of poor Ecuadorians are being booted from the sensitive ecosystem to counteract the negative impact of the rising human population.

Under the volcano : "While some of you are going autumnal and fruitful, I have been going volcanic.

Don't miss it! October 6th, on a PBS station near you. NOVA and National Geographic Television present the extraordinary human drama that led to the birth of the most influential scientific theory of all time.

He took a plane, sailed on a boat, rode horseback, flew on a helicopter and trekked across a volcano -- all for science.

The mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador's Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago whose unique wildlife inspired Darwin's theory of evolution : man.

Galapagos Survivor : "There's good news and bad news on the subject of Lonesome George, the last surviving giant tortoise from the Galapagos island of Pinta and described by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "rarest living creature". First the good news.

From Dave Weigel of The Washington Independent : Watch Franks touch his tonsils with his big toe for the camera while kinda-sorta disavowing birtherism... Allow me to be the first to call on Congressman Trent Franks of Arizona to prove his U.S. citizenship -- and citizenship in the human race -- by presenting his original, long-form birth ...

It transcends even the most creative of imaginations and is known as the greatest wildlife sanctuary on earth.