Las Islas Coco.
A Pablo Lapuente, cartógrafo de la nada La obsesión torno las Islas Coco llegó a mí como por contagio, en mitad de una temporada de ocio en un Madrid cultural y climáticamente árido. Cierto amigo se refería de vez en cuando a las mentadas islas, la mayoría...

Around the water cart.
G'day. Gather round. Fill yet water bottles. Back? `Course I'm back. Dead? Nah, that's just another furphy; old soldiers never die. Fade away? Well, I have lost a bitter weight. Oh, one thing and another. What's new? Nothing much. What've youse heard? Well, can't stay too long....

Oceans: big blue looming?
By adopting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Australia has declared responsibility for an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of surrounding seas and oceans nearly twice the area of the continent. From Torres Strait to Antarctica, and from Norfolk Island to the Cocos-Keeling Islands,...

Alldomains.com Launches Automated .cc Registration Service; Relationship With VeriSign Enables Expedited .cc Registration Process.
PLEASANT HILL, Calif., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Alldomains.com, Hostcentric's Domain Services Group, announced today that, as a result of its relationship with VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) and participation in the Shared Registration System (SRS), it can now offer automated .cc domain registrations starting immediately through Alldomains.com's D-Cart(SM) registration...

Support urged for RP sites in 7 world wonders.
He described both the two sites as the people's "national pride." "We encourage and exhort all Cebuanos to cast their votes for the new seven wonders of nature in the world," Maambong said in his proposal. Recently, President Arroyo campaigned for the inclusion of the...

The war on sharks: a new film documents a corrupt but lucrative international conspiracy.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diver and filmmaker Rob Stewart's plans started going to hell in 2002, while he and his film crew were steaming toward Costa Rica aboard the Ocean Warrior, a ship captained by Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Stewart couldn't wait to get...

The War on Sharks: a new film documents a corrupt but lucrative international conspiracy.
Filmmaker Rob Stewart (above and right) gets personal with underwater wildlife. Below: Diver and filmmaker Rob Stewart's plans started going to hell in 2002, while he and his film crew were steaming toward Costa Rica aboard the Ocean Warrior, a ship captained by Paul Watson, founder of...

Coron in Forbes Traveler's top 10 best scuba sites.
The teeming diverse marine life in and around the sunken Japanese warships off Coron, Palawan have been listed in Forbes Traveler Magazine's top 10 best scuba sites in the world. Forbes Traveler is the travel and leisure publication of leading international business and financial resource Forbes Magazine....

The assault on humanitarianism ... Stuart Rosewarne looks at Australia's celebration of fifty years of the UN convention on refugees. (letters and debate).
Among the many logical anomalies in the Howard Government's approach to refugees, surely the most spurious is the argument that the clandestine entry of asylum seekers breaches Australia's territorial boundaries and undermines Australian political sovereignty. The way in which the present government has sought to manage onshore applications for...

El cerdo cimarron (Sus scrofa, Suidae) en la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica: escarbaduras, alteraciones al suelo y erosion.
RESUMEN El cerdo cimarrón (Sus scrofa) es uno de los vertebrados exóticos más perjudiciales para las comunidades nativas de los sitios donde ha sido introducido, sobre todo en islas oceánicas. Los cerdos cimarrones habitan la Isla del Coco desde 1793 y su abundancia se estima en 400-500...