Richard Preston on the giant trees

Aldabra is almost entirely free of human interference and is home to the world's largest population of giant tortoises.

Probably the best documented basking shark fishery in the world is that from Achill Island.

Mexican indigenous groups snub corporate giants, launch their own telco

Speaking on gigantic television screens, Karol Wojtyla blessed Catholic believers in Russian.

And we thought that basking sharks were temperate animals and only lived in our latitude.

Specifically, weeds, the little wild plants that grow in cracks of sidewalk everywhere, the plants that people step on.

No word could get beyond the soundproofing of the giant cabbage like leaves.

As one might expect, people in Japan are excited about the prospect of a giant robot battle.

And it's a fantastic opportunity in science to see and experience basking sharks, and they are awesome creatures.

They found that there was no genetic differentiation between any of the world's oceans of basking sharks.

On Twitter, some are quite naturally comparing the real life American and Japanese giant robots to those found in anime and manga

Private funds cannot operate without these two giant markets, and would have to comply with their requirements.

And we're very lucky in Ireland, we have plenty of basking sharks and plenty of opportunities to study them.

In fact, the streetlights in 1742 of Galway, Dublin and Waterford were linked with sunfish oil.

And, unfortunately for giant hornets, there is not a live and let live mentality in Japan I found a hornet's nest underground.

As trade links with the former Soviet world collapsed, most of these giant firms collapsed.

The Ngorongoro Crater is a large, unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera located in the west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania.

American and Japanese robotics companies Megabots and Suidobashi Heavy Industries have agreed to participate in a giant robot battle one year from now.

Mural artist Mona Caron uses city walls all over the world as canvases for her magnified portraits of wild plants.

When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited India in 2005, he signed eleven agreements, including a comprehensive five year strategic cooperation pact.

As Ukraine so clearly shows, the process of self liberation from communism was, by definition, associated with a gigantic privatization.

America depends on China s trade surplus and savings to finance its outsize budget deficits, while China relies on its huge exports to the US to sustain its economic growth and finance its military modernization. By plowing more than two thirds of its mammoth foreign currency reserves into US dollar denominated assets, China has gained significant political leverage.

A gold plated, oversized key to the city and that is all I need, 'cause if I get that, I can unlock the air.

By plowing more than two thirds of its mammoth foreign currency reserves into US dollar denominated assets, China has gained significant political leverage.

The most recent endogenous processes were mainly tectonic in nature and caused the formation of the canyons, which are actually giant cracks in the ice crust.

Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that the two giant, rapidly growing markets will become an economic Chindia.

Even with large 3 MW turbines, this would require more than 400,000 new tall towers and giant triple blades.

While everyone is afraid of giant hornets, when you see them eating sap from a tree they're actually kind of cute.

If you look at nucleotide diversity, which is more genetics that are passed on through parents, you can see that basking sharks, if you look at the first study, was an order of magnitude less diversity than other shark species.

The impetus for a big subprime market came from within the private sector innovation by giant mortgage lenders like Countrywide, Ameriquest, and many others, backed by the big investment banks.

And when you see the two giant cats here, pushing forward, you see that in between them and ahead of them, is the whole emerging economies of the world, which Thomas Friedman so correctly called the flat world.

The park s waterways contain one tenth of the world s remaining 1,000 giant river otters, along with black and speckled caiman, pink river dolphins, and capybaras.

Sverd i fjell (sword in the mountain) is a collection of giant swords framed by the Hafrsfjord Mountains in the background and commemorating the victory of Harald Hårfagre s forces, making him the first king of Norway in 808.

The weapons should be used to help preserve the independence of all states, rather than for imperial aggrandizement, and steps should be taken to reduce arsenals as political conditions permit.

In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.

Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that, given their rapid growth, the two giant markets will become an economic Chindia.

After slowing its dam building program in response to the serious environmental consequences of completion in 2006 of the Three Gorges Dam the world s largest China is now rushing to build a new generation of giant dams.

And you see that when you distort a map based on attention, the world within American television news is basically reduced to this giant bloated U.S.

A giant crocodile in southern Philippines and crocodiles in the flooded waters of Thailand and Cambodia were among the top news topics in Southeast Asia in the last quarter of the year.

From early August until the beginning of September (horizontal axis) the danger from Japanese giant hornets skyrockets as the number of active wasps (vertical axis) dramatically increases within each nest.

The black, you can't really see this, but these are Norwegian basking shark hunting vessels, and the black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel rather than a whaling vessel.

Whereas thirty years ago, people wanted to dismantle the police force because of its horrifying repression, today people are putting hope in the police as the one thing that could stand in the way of a new generation of shocking violence. Forcing Ríos Montt to face trial for his crimes is not going to solve any of Guatemala s enormous problems, but it might at least force the defenders of violence in that nation to think twice about their actions.

An important research of Ambartsumian and his followers was dedicated to the blue ejections from the nuclei of the gigantic galaxies, galaxy systems of new type, the so called compact galaxies, etc.

Kurata said he would prefer to utilize hand to hand combat to devastate his American rivals, vowing not to let another country beat Japan in a giant robot battle, since giant robots are a part of Japanese culture.