Insight: Chinese whispers: Who wants to bet on the 'Nicaragua Canal'?ReutersBy Ivan Castro and Lomi Kriel. MANAGUA/PANAMA CITY | Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:59am EDT. MANAGUA/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - For centuries since the colonization of the New World, entrepreneurs have dreamed of building a canal spanning Nicaragua to ...Chinese whispers: Who wants to bet on 'Nicaragua Canal'?Moneycontrol.comall 3 news articles »

National GeographicUncovering the Stone Circles of NicaraguaNational GeographicNational Geographic explorer and archaeologist Alex Geurds is currently in the field investigating a unique, prehistoric, ceremonial center of stone circles in Central Nicaragua. Follow the expedition here on Explorers Journal through updates from him ...

ScienceBlogs (blog)Student guest post: Mission Impossible: Fighting Zoonotic Infections in NicaraguaScienceBlogs (blog)From jungles with jaguars to crystal blue lakes with freshwater sharks, Nicaragua is one of the most beautiful and dangerous countries in Central America. The brilliant biodiversity attracts millions of tourists each year and the looming volcanoes that ...

Transworld SurfUSA Jr. Surf Team Kicks Ass In NicaraguaTransworld SurfSurfing America PacSun USA Jr. Surf Team Post Best Results Ever In The ISA World Junior Surfing Championships. Surfing America, the National Governing Body for the sport of surfing in the USA, is proud to announce the PacSun USA Junior Surf Team has ...Dana Hills grad returns from Nicaragua with surfing medalsOCRegister (subscription)Bringing Home BronzeSan Clemente Times (blog)all 4 news articles »

Nicaragua OKs plan for cross-country canal, environment be damnedGristNicaragua is one step closer to being carved in half by a massive cross-country canal. Leftist President Daniel Ortega rammed the project through his country's congress last week. The lawmakers gave the Hong Kong-based HKND Group a 50-year ...New Canal To Be Built Across NicaraguaLiveScience.comGreen light given for vast new oceanic canal across NicaraguaWired.co.ukNicaragua's $40 Billion Canal Would Fulfill Two Centuries of AmbitionMotherboard (blog)The Evening Sun -Times of Malta -Fars News Agencyall 22 news articles »

Reach for Your Pocket: Nicaraguans Turn to their Phones for Reproductive HealthNational GeographicIn this installment of Digital Diversity, Chloe Lew, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua, shares details of a project which bypasses the need for the Internet and focuses on girls' empowerment and teen pregnancy prevention through widely accessible ...

Poll: Nicaraguans hopeful about canalNicaragua DispatchThe rusted remains of U.S. industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt's old canal-dredging barge still sit at the bottom of the San Juan Lagoon in Greytown. The ?Commodore? failed in his 19th century attempt to build a canal across Nicaragua after getting only ...

Nicaragua DispatchMaryknoll missionary dies after life of service in NicaraguaNicaragua DispatchMaryknoll Sister Rita Owczarek, a long-time nurse, health educator and missioner in Nicaragua, died last Sunday in the Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care in New York. She was 95 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 65 years, much of which was ...

Yahoo! NewsAssembly approves massive Nicaragua canal projectUSA TODAYMANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) ? A multi-billion dollar proposal to plow a massive rival to the Panama Canal across the middle of Nicaragua was approved by the leftist-controlled National Assembly Thursday, capping a lightning-fast approval process that has ...Panama's boom helps drive Nicaragua canal dreamsYahoo! NewsNicaragua Revives Its Canal DreamWall Street JournalChinese firm plans rival to Panama CanalCNNForbes -Fox Newsall 148 news articles »

Nicaragua to drill first exploration oil wellGlobal TimesThe well is near the town of Puerto Cabezas, which is on the northern side of the Caribbean coast, Susan M. Cunningham, the company's Vice President, was quoted as saying by Nicaragua's state-run news website El 19 Digital. The US company was ...Noble Energy eyes Nicaragua's first Caribbean wellGlobalPostall 2 news articles »