Tiny Mercury Had Huge Volcanic Eruptions Oct 30, 2008
Images returned earlier this month from NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft reveal about 3,600 cubic miles (15,000 cubic kilometers) of solidified lava inside a single crater on Mercury's western hemisphere. SHARE RELATED. (National Geographic)
4 new rules travelers should know for 2009 Oct 23, 2008
On June 1, the U.S. government will implement the full requirements of the land and sea phase of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). That means U.S. citizens entering the United States at sea or land ports of entry must either have a passport, passport card or WHTI-compliant document. (CNN -- Travel)
More options for border-crossing travelers Oct 22, 2008
New rules take effect next yearThe Pt. Bob briefing was part of the governments ongoing efforts to get the word out about the next stage of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which mandates stricter requirements for all travelers, including U.S. citizens, entering or re-entering the United States. Under the initiative, U.S. citizens 16 and older will no longer be able to travel between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Bermuda or the Caribbean with just a birth certificate and... (MSNBC -- Politics)
Protected 'Swimways' Urged For Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle Oct 21, 2008
25, 2004) In one of the most ambitious marine conservation initiatives in the western hemisphere, four Latin American nations, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the United Nations Foundation (UN Foundation). (Mar. (Science Daily)
Missouri Botanical Garden mounts milestone 6 millionth herbarium specimen Oct 18, 2008
(ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis operates one of the largest and fastest growing herbaria in the world, and the second largest in the western hemisphere. With the addition of a specimen of Anthurium centimillesimum, a gigantic new aroid species from Ecuador, the Garden's permanent collection of pressed and dried plant specimens has reached a milestone of six million specimens. (EurekAlert!)
Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved: Martian Weather Sep 23, 2008
In the western hemisphere of Mars, this creates a strong low-pressure system near the south pole, and a high-pressure system in the eastern hemisphere, again near the south pole. Giuranna found that the temperature of the low-pressure system is often below the condensation point for carbon dioxide, so the gas condenses and falls from the sky as snow and builds up on the ground as frost. (Science Daily)
Haiti Gets No Mercy From Hanna, Ike Sep 9, 2008
When Faye and Gustav hit Haiti last month, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere began searching for a humanitarian lifeline. Then came Hanna, dumping more than nine feet of water on Gonaives, the resource-starved country's second largest city. (TIME)
No room at the beach Aug 11, 2008
In the last year and a half, the initiative has pooled and focused the resources of conservation groups and governments throughout the western hemisphere and ramped up scientific research on shorebird population trends ... On South Beach last week, Duncan traced a crude map of South America in the sand and made a divot halfway down the coast of Argentina - at San Antonio Oeste, one of the premiere sites of Manomet's Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. (Boston Globe)
Opinion: America the breakup artist Jun 3, 2008
The US strategic signal should be clear and loud: Partition is neither good nor welcome in the Western Hemisphere. It should also make clear that autonomy is not the same thing as secession. (Christian Science Monitor)
Spy Scholar Dr. Sylvanus Morley May 27, 2008
The united states, the great neutral for the first part of World War one, was very apprehensive of German influence and designs on the western hemisphere. It was known that German commercial interests in South America could lead to the establishment of new U-boat bases that could strangle the United States if it did come into the war. (Suite101.com)
Volcano Eruption Forces 600 to Evacuate in Indonesia Apr 17, 2008
Indonesia is prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes because of its location on the so-called Ring of Fire, a series of fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia. The country, which is comprised of about 17,000 islands, has nearly a hundred active volcanoes. (National Geographic)
VIDEO: Oldest Gold Jewelry in Americas Apr 3, 2008
April 2, 2008 See the earliest known gold necklace created in the Western Hemisphere found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca in Peru. 2008 National Geographic (AP). (National Geographic)
Green Thoughts: Where dead plants talk Jan 5, 2008
The Steere Herbarium is the fourth largest on the planet, and while it contains flowering plant, conifer, fern, moss, liverwort, algae, fungi and lichen specimens from around the globe, it specializes in those from the Western Hemisphere. Housed in a new state-of-the-art building, it's a quasi-museum/library designed to contain the products of wild field and forest. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
The year's 10 top travel stories Dec 20, 2007
On Jan. 8, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) went into effect, requiring all passengers flying into U.S. to carry passports upon entry and reentry. (Expect more restrictions to be rolled out in January, 2008. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Extinct Armadillo-like Fossil Discovered Dec 14, 2007
Flynn added that Chucal, at more than 14,000 feet above sea level, is the highest elevation vertebrate fossil site in the Western Hemisphere. The highest site in the world is much younger and is found in the Tibetan Plateau at an altitude of more than 15,000 feet. (Science Daily)
Photo in the News: First "America" Map to Go on Display Dec 5, 2007
ller in 1507, is the first document to show a separate Western Hemisphere and label the Pacific Ocean as its own body of water. Before he drew the document, Waldseem. (National Geographic)
Photo Gallery: Ancient "Fire Temple" Found in Peru Nov 13, 2007
The large, vibrant wall paintings found at the site are likely the oldest murals ever found in the Western Hemisphere, he added. Some of the paintings feature red-and-white designs, and one depicts a deer being hunted with a net. (National Geographic)
AIDS study spurs Haitian outrage Nov 1, 2007
Gay South Florida www. Steve Rothaus' blog for and about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people throughout Miami and Fort Lauderdale. (MiamiHerald.com)
Lessons for the Left on the Price of Civilization Oct 10, 2007
He ended up finding the Western Hemisphere instead. So maybe he wasn't a great navigator, but he was an extraordinary mariner and certainly one of the most important explorers. (Human Events Online)
Jaw-to-jaw with nature's nastiest fish Sep 15, 2007
Third and by far tops in the Western Hemisphere is Guadelupe Island off the coast of Mexico. When dealing with the mythologized man-eater that inspired "Jaws", most operators put divers in protective steel cages. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Seven lessons from the summer of 2007 Sep 4, 2007
On January 23, the U.S. government began requiring citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Bermuda to present a passport to enter the United States when arriving by air from any part of the western hemisphere. Don't Miss. (CNN -- Travel)
Researchers try to uncover lives of Mexican mummies; bodies accidentally preserved in crypts Sep 1, 2007
The bodies from the Guanajuato's Museo de las Momias (Museum of the Mummies) are believed to be the largest mummy collection in the Western Hemisphere. Guanajuato Mayor Eduardo Romero Hicks invited scientists from Texas State University and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut in to find out more about the people whose remains are on display at the museum. (North County Times)
Mexico mummies lure U.S. professors Aug 30, 2007
The bodies, believed to be the largest mummy collection in the Western hemisphere, were apparently mummified by oppressive heat while stored in above-ground crypts in Guanajuato, Mexico. They were found between about 1865 and the mid-1950s and now are part of a museum there. (AZCentral)
What Has Caused The Red Knot Bird Population To Plummet? Aug 21, 2007
The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN), a partnership of organisations working to conserve shorebirds and their habitats through a network of key sites across the Americas, will soon release a Species Conservation Action Plan for the Red Knot in the Western Hemisphere. The plan is the work of the Red Knot Species Assessment Team, comprising dozens of expert authors across the hemisphere. (Science Daily)
Thousands flee as volcano spews lava, ash Jul 13, 2007
Indonesia has more active volcanoes than any other nation because of its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire a series of geographic fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia. Search the News Search. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Hemisphere's First Gunshot Victim Found? Jun 21, 2007
(AP) The musket blast was sudden and deadly the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere. "We didn't expect it. We saw this skull and saw the almost-round hole and thought people must have been shooting around here recently," said Guillermo Cock, an archaeologist who found the remains near Lima, Peru. (CBS News)
Researchers find first gun victim in Americas Jun 21, 2007
WASHINGTON - The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere. We didnt expect it. (MSNBC -- Environment)
West Nile virus hit birds hard May 17, 2007
"The globalization of trade and travel that brought West Nile virus to the Western Hemisphere has completely altered our bird communities and may make some of our backyard birds relatively uncommon.". West Nile virus, native to Uganda in east-central Africa, arrived in New York City in 1999, most likely in a mosquito on a ship or plane. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Posada Case Fuels Anti-Terror Tensions May 17, 2007
Seventy-three people were killed in what was, until September 11, the deadliest attack on a civilian airline in the Western hemisphere. Posada was also linked to a series of bombings in the 1990s, one of which killed an Italian tourist. (Forbes -- Business)
PRI's celebrates 75 May 10, 2007
Begun in 1895, it is the oldest continuously published paleontology journal in the Western Hemisphere. The continuing existence of the Bulletins is a reminder that PRI's research mission has not been abandoned in the face of its new commitment to public education. (Ithaca Times, NY)
Rudy Versus the Enviros Apr 20, 2007
The West Nile virus debuted in the Western Hemisphere in Queens, New York s College Point community in August 1999. Among 62 New York State residents who contracted West Nile encephalitis (brain swelling) that year, seven died. (Human Events Online)
April Holladay Apr 10, 2007
In the Western Hemisphere, the longest is in the Wheaton Washington DC Metro station: 230-feet long.. Jesse Reno patented the moving stairs in 1892 and, four years later, created a six-foot escalator "ride" on Coney Island in New York City. (USA Today -- Tech)
Robinson: Immigrants & Latin America Mar 12, 2007
But they are in my view all the more pressing in light of the transnational processes sweeping the Western hemisphere and the world as globalization proceeds ... Therefore, bound up with the immigrant debate in the United States is the entire political economy of global capitalism in the Western Hemisphere the same political economy that is now being sharply contested throughout Latin America with the surge in mass popular struggles and the turn to the Left. (Zmag.org)
Common cold may send some young children to the hospital Feb 22, 2007
Founded in 1904, The Journal of Infectious Diseases is the premier publication in the Western Hemisphere for original research on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune mechanisms. Articles in JID include research results from microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines. (EurekAlert!)
Communiqu at the Conclusion of the High-Level Conference on Investment in Central America Feb 3, 2007
Anoop Singh, Director, Western Hemisphere Department, International Monetary Fund. Eduardo Stein, Vice President of the Republic, Guatemala. (IMF News)
Castro's Cuba: Quo Vadis? Jan 12, 2007
Few of them would be considered admirable in a democratic society or ethical by any standard, but they have been critical to his success in holding on to power for more than 47 years, longer than any other leader in the history of the Western Hemisphere except one ... Fact Sheet, Cuba: Espionage, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, 7/30/2003 ... Fact Sheet, Cuba: Espionage, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, July 30, 2003. (Ocnus.net)
