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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)
A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many
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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving
Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi
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Taking Time From Volcano Frenzy to Think About Oceans
On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the
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Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup
In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are
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Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans
Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans, and this year got her Mission Blue project up and rolling to create marine preserves. Earle's wish was that we all use all the means at our disposal to tell the story of oceans in
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Happy 200th, Charles Darwin!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by
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Greening Secondary School Education with the Institute of International Education
Though I delved into Toyota's reasons for annually executing their singular teaching program in the Galapagos, I amazingly failed to touch on the
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Bringing the Rich World of the Galapagos into the High School Classroom
Now that the Toyota International Teacher Program has ended, I've decided to turn the spotlight on a few of the teachers involved. First came the middle school teachers. Next up, a couple of the high school-teaching
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5 Things You Must Do When Eco-Touring in Fragile Ecosystems
I've just returned from spending two weeks traveling through some of the most fragile, intricately weaved ecosystems in existence—the Galapagos Islands. Many took issue with my being there at all. Some believe such habitats should be hermetically
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When Teachers Trek Across the Galapagos: A Photo Gallery
What does it look like when 29 acclaimed US teachers embark on a study tour of the Galapagos?
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Middle School Teachers Pioneer New Globally Focused Environmental Education Plans
It seems that we only hear about environmental plans and initiatives being made at legislative, university, and corporate levels—and we can forget that there are still folks like progressive secondary school teachers making
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Revolutionary Recycling Plant Blazes Trail in the Galapagos
One of the final stops on the International Teacher Program was a site not quite as quintessentially Galapagos as wandering an uninhabited beach filled with sea lions and marine iguanas, or gazing at sad ol'
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Why is a Japanese Car Company Promoting Environmental Education in the Galapagos, Anyways?
Every year, Toyota sends a crop of hand-picked teachers to the Galapagos on an environmental study tour. It's a costly program, it doesn't get much press, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the auto industry.
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Galapagos and US Teachers Present New Environmental Education Plans
Only a few days ago, top secondary school teachers from the US and Galapagos were working together to create environmental education plans. Incorporating ideas from their disparate locales, they'd forged some progressive, globally
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What Would Darwin Do? Killing Goats So Others May Live
Why are environmentalists shooting goats? Why have they undertaken an elaborate plan to systematically kill hundreds of thousands of goats by means of aerial and ground hunting operations? Why to preserve life, of course.
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The Last of His Kind: The Lamented Life of Lonesome George
Lonesome George slovenly lumbers out of the brush in his compound, painstakingly climbs the minor incline up to his pool, and collapses. The famed giant tortoise seems exhausted and lethargic, even by tortoise standards. And I
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Survey: Should Brian Be Tromping over the Galapagos?
TreeHugger Brian has been visiting the Galapagos and it has been controversial. He writes: "I've been receiving comments (some angry-seeming) on my series of dispatches from Galapagos with suggestions like only scientists should be allowed entry, and
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To Tour or Not to Tour—Should An Environmentalist Visit the Galapagos?
From a die-hard ecologist's standpoint, the unequivocal answer is simple:
