Users of the web giant’s Google Street View program will be able to take a panoramic tour of the island – both above and below the waterline. In this May 2013 photo provided by Google, Daniel Orellana ...

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world’s largest tortoises and other fantastic creatures. Soon it will take only ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

The remote Galápagos Islands of the Pacific, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have no historic monuments, only a handful of human settlements and the barest smattering of amenities such as ...

GOOGLE Maps has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty and biological diversity of the Galapagos Islands. A Google Maps team carrying 360-degree cameras sticking ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Visitors can wander through the escalecia forest, take in scenic views and observe birds, including ...

The Galápagos Islands are famed as a bizarre menagerie of blue-footed boobies, giant tortoises and seafaring iguanas. But the waters surrounding the archipelago are also brimming with biodiversity, ...

This heat map produced through ESA's Medspiration project shows the sea surface temperatures around Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean for March 18, 2007. Galapagos Islands and ...

Galápagos National Park and the marine reserve protecting the islands’ surrounding waters welcome 300,000 visitors a year and support sustainable fisheries and tourism jobs for about 30,000 residents.

When you take a closer look at the South American map, there’s one country that tends to stand out. Her name is Ecuador. That’s because, roughly a thousand kilometers off its coastline lies the ...