$2 Million Narco Sub Found in Colombian Jungle.

$2 Million Narco Sub Found in Colombian Jungle, Ready to Transport 8 Tons of Cocaine.  Colombian soldiers have for the first time seized a fully submersible drug-smuggling submarine capable of reaching the...

Sleeping Warthog

A warthog trying to go to sleep.Source: Image of the day

Surviving when lost in the Jungle

From my Blog Hypo GlobalThere are many celebrity shows focusing on the intrigue of survival in the Jungle, however they are all executed with the security of a grand plan and designed to stimulate emotions or shock through wild nature and give Celebrities of otherwise the...

Amazon Rainforest could be 85% gone in 100 years

Scientists at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen this weekend, deliver some alarming news for the Amazon Rainforest: a rise in 4 degrees will kill off 85% of the whole forest in the next 100 years. The fact...

Groups say Peru oil project threatens Amazon Indian groups

The world has a need for oil but in getting the oil care also needs to be taken to protect the rights of the people living there. " The development of a remote oil field in Peru’s Amazon jungle could threaten...

New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests

If this is a world wide trendit will be good for the future health of the environment. "These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the...

Ashlee Simpson & Pete Wentz Have Baby Boy Named Bronx Mowgli

" Ashlee Simpson and her “Fall Out Boy” husband Pete Wentz have finally welcomed their son.So let’s have a Bronx cheer!The new baby’s name is Bronx Mowgli Wentz and he weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., and was 20 1/2 inches long.No clue yet on the basis of the...

Thousands flock to see Nepal's mystery "Buddha" boy

A teenage Nepalese boy claiming to be the reincarnation of the Buddha has re-surfaced after disappearing more than a-year-and-a-half ago.However, he has appeared this time at another location in the...

How To Make Friends…

Seems the American media has found this fine piece of writing from Heather Mallick at the CBC… and it’s starting to really get coverage. Fox did a piece on it today (sorry we can’t watch Fox in Vancouver), and the story is starting to travel. The whole story is rated...

Palin White Trash according to CBC, Yeah Have a Beer aye

"I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to...

French top honour for Betancourt

Former Colombian hostage  Ingrid  Betancourt has been  awarded with one of  the top French civilian award. She hold dual nationality of Colombia and France. "France has honoured the former...

Michelle de Kretser: The urban jungle

Good interview with Michelle de Kretser - anyone not yet familiar with her work might feel like trying some out after reading this well written interview by Boyd Tonkin"The best stories lodge in the memory and...

Chavez sends tanks to Colombian border

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered tank battalions to the Colombian border and mobilized warplanes after Colombian troops struck inside Ecuador in an attack on rebels He also ordered the shutting of...

Satellites Provide Clues to Ancient Mayan Civilization

"Five years ago, archaeologists began working with NASA scientists to better understand the mysterious end of the ancient Mayan civilization that thrived for over 1,000 years in Central America and southern...

An Indian Muslim : Voter more but less Citizen ?

"Baghpat (ABC Live): A small controversy can spark big fire in Jungle, so lit off immediate, it is old quotation but Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms Mayawati is not heeding to this on Haji Ishtiyaq’s issue, who was arrested by local police on January 27."

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