Galapagos Islands, Ecuador News

Karen Yellin and her son, Mike Willey, right, are going on cruise to Galapagos Islands as winners of Jeopardy TV show sweepstakes.

Members of Congress just love to use the American taxpayers as their own personal ATM.

The Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park have completed 50 years of invaluable service to the global community.

Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galapagos Islands.

Two Lehigh Valley residents are among 25 winners of a cruise to the Galapagos Islands with ''Jeopardy!'' game show host Alex Trebek.

A year-old Galapagos Island boy was born with a cleft lip and a cleft palette, facial deformities that could force parents to disown their child in many Third World countries.

The Dolomite mountains in northern Italy and architectural works by Le Corbusier are among sites nominated to join UNESCO's World Heritage List at a meeting that began Monday in Spain.

The Galapagos Islands are isolated in the Pacific Ocean. The closest mainland to the Galapagos Islands is Ecuador.

Just the other day, I was browsing through Google Maps and I saw what is properly classed as a "big ol' building." Aerial shots and even Street View couldn't tell me what said building was, and I wished that Google could just check the repository of the Internet tell me what that building was.

The Third Annual Art in Bloom will take place this weekend at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, located in the beautifully renovated original city hall at 225 W. State Street.

It's often referred to as the Japanese Nobel, and early this morning, Peter and Rosemary Grant got a phone call with news that they had won it.

Construction has started on a multi-million-dollar spaceport in the New Mexico desert that is meant to launch private citizens into space.

A husband-and-wife team of biologists from Princeton University are among the winners of this year's Kyoto Prizes for their decades of research on evolution in the Galapagos Islands and will share an award of $515,000. Peter and Rosemary Grant were awarded the prize in biological sciences for field work over more than 35 years on the response of ...

A group of AU students and professors participating in an interdisciplinary course, Practices of Environmentalism, recently returned from their trip to the Galapagos Islands.

Long haul wildlife adventures "ECLIPSE GALAPAGOS CRUISE - 7 nights for the price of 5 on July departures on an 11-day trip to Ecuador that includes two nights in the capital Quito and a seven-night cruise of the Galapagos Islands on board the M/V Eclipse, one of the most luxurious and spacious expedition ships in the Galapagos.

Blogs Parque Nacional Galapagos works to implement and promote effective conservation and reforestation strategies within the park, and in the region.

K.B. Dixon's "The Sum of His Syndromes," a finalist for a 2008 Oregon Book Award, has just been published by Academy Chicago Publishers.

I'm taking a look at the presence of Ecuador in Chicago because in less than one month, Ecuador will find a piece of Chicago in it.

Blogs Volunteer for Escuela Pedro Pablo Andrade [Galapagos] Unidad Educativa offers educational opportunities for children and teenagers specializing in eduaction, culture, sports, and the knowlegde of flora and fauna conservation in the Galapagos.

Further proof that all law bloggers end up in Cincinnati eventually: Tomorrow I'll be traveling to Covington, Kentucky where, on Thursday, I'll be a CLE presenter at the 2009 Kentucky Bar Association Convention .