The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Madrid - The thousands of African would-be immigrants arriving on Spain's Canary Islands include increasing numbers of children, the daily El Pais reported Friday. The number of unaccompanied minors arriving annually has risen from a few hundred in 2...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Canary Islands - A boat carrying 229 African would-be immigrants landed on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife overnight, rescuers said Tuesday. It was the largest number of Africans to arrive on a single vessel so far, officials told the national ...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... of Africans who try to get to Europe illegally every year by embarking on boats to Spain's Canary Islands from the west coast of Africa. Many of them die en route.Last week Spanish coastguards rescued a group of 230 Africans -- the largest single boat load of illegal immigrants to reach Spain.Mali is the world's fifth poorest country and an estimated four million of its 12-million...
MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
... brown dwarfs," said Hans Deeg, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in the Canary Islands, Spain.The object has a mass 20 times greater than that of Jupiter, but is roughly the same size. It falls outside the range of planets and stars discovered to date, with the largest planets having 12-Jupiter-mass and the smallest stars 70-Jupiter-mass.If astronomers confirm...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... by collectors and threatened by the international pet trade, and the Palma giant lizard on Spain's Canary Islands, which was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered last year. The reasons for the extinction crisis include habitat loss or degradation, which affect 40 per cent of the world's mammals, pollution, hunting and fishing, diseases, and climate change. "In the marine environment,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the company in 1994, says he has had "vast interest" from dealers in Greece, Israel, Portugal, Canary Islands, Germany and France, among others.However, to export to the EU he would need to take each product through the European safety certification programme to be allowed to put the CE mark on his products. And that would mean paying out R35000 for each amplifier that he wanted to...
From Our Own Correspondent (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
In the USA, Alan Little reflects on how the current financial turmoil is affecting the people of Memphis. David Edmonds visits a prison in Ethiopia, which has been called "Africa's Guantanamo". Wyre Davies reflects on Israel's use of a non-lethal, smelly weapon called "skunk". In the Canary Islands, Richard Black goes on the trail of the beaked whale and Stephen Evans looks at how New...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Largest-ever vessel to reach the Canary Islands from west Africa spotted 55 miles off Gran Canaria
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Spanish coastguards have rescued 229 Africans trying to reach the Canary Islands, after intercepting a boat off the islands' coast. The officers found the 30m fishing boat yesterday evening about 60 miles south of Gran Canaria and took the would-be immigrants to the port of Los Cristianos in Tenerife.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Spanish coastguards Tuesday morning detained a fishing boat with 229 Africans on board, which allegedly tried to reach the country's Canary Island, Naval spokesman said on Tuesday. All the 229 people on board were male including at least 20 minors, said Naval spokesman. The ship, with the largest group of illegal immigrants ever intercepted off the Spanish archipelago, was seen on Monday...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... as part of a 21-game tour that will also take the team to Israel, Turkey, Romania, Morocco and the Canary Islands of Spain. The Globetrotters previously performed in the region when Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the former Yugoslavia, but these are the first games for the team in the country since it declared its independence in 1992. The excursion also marks the Globetrotters...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... as part of a 21-game tour that will also take the team to Israel, Turkey, Romania, Morocco and the Canary Islands of Spain. The Globetrotters previously performed in the region when Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the former Yugoslavia, but these are the first games for the team in the country since it declared its independence in 1992. The excursion also marks the Globetrotters...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
"They go down just as fast, but they come up much slower; and when they reach the surface they go into this pattern of shallower dives - 400m, 300m, 200m - and our interpretation is that they need this, and if they break this dive profile they can enter in a risky situation, into a decompression-like sickness." Now, in the Canary islands, they cannot do any kind of naval manoeuvres Antonella...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
... (Ifaw), is on a mission to acquire more information about the mammals as it sails around the Canary Islands, habitat to numerous beaked whale species. The yacht's key research tools are called hydrophones. They are underwater microphones that listen to, track and record the whales' high-frequency clicks. "Some species have never been seen alive, and these are animals as big as an...
