After several days immersed in the geothermal intensity of São Miguel, I headed west on my Azores journey. Faial and Pico, separated by just five miles of ocean, form a complementary pair—and could ...

Keith Tavares uncovered surprising family ties to key figures in Portuguese history. Here's how he did it, and how it can ...

HORTA - About 150 experts from around the world are in Faial, Azores, debating about the present and future of artificial science. “I am very proud to see the island where I was born become an ...

PONTA DELGADA - An underwater archaeology mission has discovered a part of the hull of the “Nossa Senhora da Luz,” a ship that sank in November 1615 near Faial in the Azores, it was announced on ...

Maria F. Lindia remembers the volcanic ash raining down. Residents of the former whaling village of Capelo in Faial, Azores, would walk down the streets with open umbrellas, trying their best to ...

The Capelinhos volcano on the Azores island of Faial forced much of the region's population to emigrate when it erupted in the late 1950s. A black-sand wasteland — with an 1894 lighthouse partly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Phylogenetic diversity of the 16S rRNA gene associated with the domain bacteria was examined at the level of operational taxonomic units (OTUs ...