Sharp plans to extend the Galapagos service to connected TVs and smartphones in the future.
She's been to Argentina, the Galapagos Islands and Thailand, and she recently visited Namibia.
Similarly, one glitch in one key ecosystem component of the Galapagos could do the same thing.
But unlike island chains like Hawaii, the Galapagos still maintains 95 percent of its native plants and animals.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Near the largest freshwater lake in the Galapagos, park ranger Gianni Arizmendi resentfully yanks out a root.
An isolated archipelago, the Galapagos are set in the Pacific Ocean more than 500 miles west of Ecuador .
Hawaii, Oahu, Bermuda, the Azores, the Galapagos and Mauritius are natural nets sitting in the path of gyre currents.
There is a mystery here, and the more you think about it, the more implausible the Galapagos story seems.
The Committee also decided to remove the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.
The idea for OceanElders was seeded during the TED Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos Islands in April 2010.
Three army officers who were his bodyguards claimed they had sailed with him on a yacht to the Galapagos Islands.
On the Galapagos Islands off the Pacific coast of South America, conservationists are waging a battle of man vs. goat.
George became a symbol of the Galapagos Islands after he was found on Pinta Island by biologist Joseph Vagvolgyi in 1971.
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People who want to visit the Galapagos Islands have to take approved tours, designed to protect the islands' fragile ecology.
At least three types of parasitic fly are thought to have been accidentally introduced to the Galapagos, the first having been found in 1997.
From rafting the Grand Canyon to sailing the Galapagos to trekking in the Himalayas, the world is filled with true once-in-a-lifetime adventures and destinations.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Meaning they can reduce a forest to a lawn in a few years, leaving vulnerable animals like the Galapagos tortoise struggling to survive.
The World Heritage Committee also added four sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger, and removed the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.
Today the Galapagos are a designated UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site.
"It's just a fantastically wonderful place, " said Herb Wilson, a biology professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, who has been to the Galapagos twice.
With their remote location, the Galapagos used to be more of a legend than a destination for most people -- but that's no longer the case.
Lake Malawi is a UNESCO World Heritage site and UNESCO says the lake's importance for studying the evolution of fish is comparable with finches in the Galapagos Islands.
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The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
The Galapagos e-bookstore service sells e-books, movies, games and music.
Bennett has logged time with Reinhard in the mountains of Greece and Peru, and has traveled to the Galapagos Islands to help evolutionary theorist Frank Sulloway record ecological changes there.
Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- has so far stopped at Miami, the Galapagos Islands and Cancun, in Mexico -- the latter during the United Nations World Climate Conference.
The giant tortoises of the Galapagos helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution after he visited the islands in the 1830s, on his five year voyage aboard HMS Beagle.
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That's exactly what Ann and Tom Kent did when they took their kids and grandkids to the Galapagos Islands last Christmas to celebrate their 50th anniversary, a trip arranged by Thomson Family Adventures.
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Once one of the country's worst-polluted cities (because of metals manufacturing), it recently got mentioned by CBS television as being an eco-friendly destination, in the same breath as the Galapagos Islands and Burlington, Vt.
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