16th Century Biblical inscriptions discovered in Caribbean cave
By Veronica Neffinger From Christian Headlines Cave inscriptions dating back to the sixteenth century have been discovered in a cave on a small island in the Caribbean. According to FoxNews.com, the inscriptions include both indigenous art and Christian inscriptions from European…
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How A Caribbean Island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases
By Phil Galewitz From Kaiser Health News More than 1,400 Americans contracted Zika while traveling outside the U.S. this year and a Caribbean-island nation is one of the top destinations where they caught the virus. Visitors to the Dominican Republic…
Amazon’s giant glass domes
Amazon is building three giant glass domes filled with endangered species at its new HQ Eugene Kim Amazon is building a new office in downtown Seattle. But it also wants to make sure its employees get to enjoy some green…
Bahamians in the dark about Rubis fuel leak report and effects on their health
From Caribbean360 NASSAU, Bahamas, Thursday July 21, 2016 – Residents of Marathon, a community in the Bahamian capital of Nassau, are waiting for answers, more than three years after a fuel spill in the centre of their community. And more…
June does it again: Global temperature sets 14th consecutive monthly record
By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson From Weather Underground Even with the intense 2015 – 2016 El Niño event out of the picture, June 2016 was still the planet’s warmest June since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA’s National…
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Jamaican delegation visits Cayman Islands MRCU
A high-level delegation from Jamaica visited the Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) last week to learn more about the facility’s methods to control mosquito-borne diseases. Jamaican Minister of Health, Dr. Christopher Tufton and Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Winston De…
This mysterious orange moon 800 million miles from Earth might be home to a unique form of alien life
By Ali Sundermier From Business Insider At first glance, Saturn’s moon Titan doesn’t seem like the kind of place that could host alien life. The average temperature of this distant orange ball is a frigid -290 degrees Fahrenheit. And while Titan…
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Dominica is CARICOM forerunner in renewable energy use, latest ECLAC report reveals
With renewables accounting for 28 per cent of electricity generation, Dominica is the CARICOM member which consumes the largest proportion of its energy from renewable sources according to the newly released ECLAC study ‘Barriers to Identification and Implementation of Energy…
US: Record setting hurricanes at an all time low
By Paul McGowan From The Carbon Wars There’s perhaps some good news on weather, for a change—hopefully it is not the calm before…. The U.S. is experiencing a remarkable, record drought from hurricane hits, with only four strikes in the…
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Monster’ El Niño subsides, La Niña hitting soon
By Baher Kamal From Inter Press Service ROME, Jul 18 2016 (IPS) – As if human-made armed conflicts, wickedness, rights abuse, gender violence, cruel inequality and climate catastrophes were not enough, now the saying “God Always Forgives, Men Sometimes, Nature…
