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Anglers in Cayman Islands’ Fishing Tournament to tag whitetip sharks
Cayman Islands International Fishing Tournament collaboration with Guy Harvey enhances conservation work WHO: Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation (GHOF) WHAT: Will work with anglers in the Cayman Islands International Fishing Tournament to tag whitetip sharks. This is the third year anglers…
Mysterious planet wiped out life on Earth once and could do it again THIS MONTH
By ALISON MALONEY From The Sun UK A MYSTERIOUS planet that wiped out life on Earth millions of years could do it again, according to a top space scientist. And some believe the apocalyptic event could happen as early…
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Cayman Islands: Call for Hurricane Shelter Volunteers The Department of Children and Family Services is inviting individuals to sign up as shelter volunteers for this year’s Hurricane Season. The Shelter Operations 2016 Hurricane Training for Shelter Managers & District Representatives…
Cayman Islands: CCMI hires exploration expert
Dr. Steve Whalan recently joined the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) as a Senior Research Scientist with expertise in coral reef ecology. Dr. Whalan brings a vast amount of knowledge and skills to CCMI, an institute that has won awards…
Grenada signs on to declaration promoting access rights in environmental matters
Grenada announced their Government’s decision to join the Latin American and Caribbean Declaration on the application of Principle 10. Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Grenada, Mrs. Roxie Hutchinson presented an official statement at the Opening…
A guaíza: The tiny sculpture of a face found by archaeologists at an indigenous Dominican Republic house
From Culture24 Described by its finders as “enigmatic”, this sculpted face was buried by a house in the Dominican Republic, as archaeologist Alice Samson, from the University of Leicester, explains “A guaíza is a small sculpture of a face. This…
IDB annual assembly focuses on role of private sector, clean energy
EFE From Fox News Latino The role of the private sector, the need for clean energy and the threat of climate change were the leading topics during a day of conferences Friday at the Inter-American Development Bank’s annual assembly in…
Jellyfish bred in space
NASA Has Been Breeding Jellyfish in Space for 20 Years By Megan Garber for The Atlantic From Mashable Since the early 1990s, we humans have been doing something both odd and eminently sensible: We’ve been launching jellyfish into space. And…
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Irish company makes history with installation of first-ever hybrid streetlight in Grenada
From Penn Energy Irish company airsynergy’s wind and solar powered off-grid Remote Power Unit (RPU) has become the very first renewable hybrid streetlight to be installed in the Caribbean island country of Grenada. Jim Smyth, CEO of airsynergy said: “We…
New species of Lipogramma basslet potentially discovered in Dominica
By Jake Adams From reef builders Lipogramma klayi is a beautiful and delicate looking species of Caribbean basslet which is no stranger to the pages of Reef Builders. We’ve written about this species at length over the years and now…
