Regions

Book Review: Patrick Cockburn's 'Muqtada' (International Herald Tribune)

9 May 2008

When it comes to the cat's cradle of Iraqi sects, tribes, families, ethnicities, parties, regions and seemingly eternal animosities, there is hardly a better candidate for teasing apart those crisscrossing threads than Patrick Cockburn.

AES posts profit on Latin America strength, higher prices (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

9 May 2008

Power company AES Corp. said it swung to a first-quarter profit, mostly driven by strength in the company's generation business in Latin America as well as higher prices across all regions.

Priority Regions For Threatened Frog And Toad Conservation In Latin America (Science Daily)

9 May 2008

Nearly 35% of all amphibians are now threatened of extinction raising them to the position of the most endangered group of animals in the world. Decline of amphibian populations and species is ongoing due to habitat loss, fungal disease, climate shift and agrochemical contaminants. These impacts are even worse to frogs that reproduce in water bodies such as streams and ponds. Scientists now ...