French Guiana News

The use of DNA "barcodes" to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Summit.

ESA PR 29-2009. The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre , near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.

Russia is equipping its spaceport at Kourou, the Space Center of French Guiana. This week it sent there two Soyuz rockets.

Vodafone is mulling involvement in a consortium run by JP Morgan's private equity arm which has tabled an offer for a controlling stake in the Bahamas Telecommunications Company Vodafone is locking horns with Irish mobile phone billionaire Denis O'Brien in the tranquil surroundings of the Bahamas in the fight to grab control of the country's sole ...

Attic Playhouse will present "My Three Angels" by Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack today through Dec.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc agreed to join Tullow Oil Plc, the U.K. oil and gas explorer poised to start production in Ghana in late 2010, in exploring French Guiana.

Dublin and London-listed group Tullow Oil said today it has had an 85 per cent exploration success rate for the year-to-date. In a trading update, the company said its business is continuing to perform strongly with its exploration programmed delivering material successes in Uganda, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

Saint Petersburg - The first Russian rockets to be fired into space next year from a space centre in distant South America were on Saturday to begin the long voyage to the launch site from Saint Petersburg.

The Whidbey Playhouse says ita s a oehomicide for the holidays,a as they present the classic comedy a oeMy Three Angelsa by Sam and Bella Spewack, Nov.

THE MOMENT: The European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft gets a thorough cleaning - including vacuuming and an ultraviolet inspection to check for dust particles - near Kourou, French Guiana, before its launch last May 14.

Last night, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, NSS-12 and Thor 6, into geostationary transfer orbits.

European Space Agency successfully shot two telecommunication satellites NSS-12 and THOR 6 aboard Ariane 5 ECA launcher at 2000 GMT Thursday from Arianespace in Kourou, French Guiana.

An Ariane-5 rocket placed two television satellites in orbit after blasting off from French Guiana on Thursday, space officials said.

My grandmother was the root of this madness I would say, this passion for food. I lived with her in Brittany until I was six and she was always in the garden.

Then there are strange and weird holidays that really have no meaning besides the mere purpose to have an excuse to celebrate something.

Tickets are now on sale for the Whidbey Playhouse holiday comedy "My Three Angels." It's Christmas Eve, 1910 in French Guiana, where a helplessly naive family is threatened by a rapacious landlord and his ruthless nephew.

A historic zoo in Vincennes, France, originally built in 1934 is looking to complete a major renovation , boosting itself to sustainable park status.

Penal Colony, a settlement to which convicts are banished or in which they are confined.

Some people joke that a bass solo is a good time to go get a drink or take a smoke break.

Jefferson Center , with its capacity recently reconfigured to 924, was mostly empty on Sunday night for Christian McBride & Inside Straight .