Island of the Little People
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The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be understated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores , announced in the
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By Rosli Zakaria; Elizabeth John; Jessica Lim  PARADISE islands, the honey pot that lures tourist dollars, have long made for idyllic holidays. But could too many visitors be trampling all over this dream? ROSLI ZAKARIA, ELIZABETH JOHN and JESSICA LIM find out.
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one of the world&#39;s most remote inhabited settlements - came yesterday from a woman who says her island childhood was
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Electricity available day and night is due to come online for a small island community for the first time.
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LISBON, Nov 27 (IPS) - The small West African island nation of Sao TomÃ©  and PrÃ­ncipe is one of the poorest countries in the world, but  there are grounds for hope that conditions there may soon improve  considerably.
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Australian and Indonesian scientists have discovered a species of tiny human beings who lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores 18,000 years ago.
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On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain, was named novel of the year in the Whitbread Book Awards.
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A new species of tree that is not thought to grow anywhere else is found on an island off the west coast of Scotland.
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By ZENA ALLI  PROBLEM: Where do you take a large family group of four generations with ages ranging from two to 70 - plus a couple of their teenage friends - on an affordable holiday and keep them all happy? Solution: The Isle of Wight.
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Paris - In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists say they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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Following Robert David Lion Gardiner's death last week, reports described Gardiners Island as the largest under private ownership, which is charming but far from the case.
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QAQORTOQ, Greenland -- The biggest island in the world is a wind-raked place, gripped by ice over four-fifths of its land, prowled by polar bears, its coastlines choked by drifting icebergs and sea ice. Many of its 56,000 people, who live on the fringes of its giant ice cap, see the effects of gl...
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The tiny island nation of Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, declared the worldâs largest marine protected area, a 164,200-square-mile ocean wilderness.
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The miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 23--Little River and Murrells Inlet used to be sleepy villages with glorious waterfront locations. But because of their beauty, both villages attracted the commercial and residential developers, and grew exponentially as a result.