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…
Caribbean Fisheries Forum meets to discuss emerging challenges
Belize City, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 (CRFM)–Fisheries experts from across the Caribbean region are traveling to Guyana this week for the 14th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum — the primary technical deliberative body of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism…
Mysterious fairy circles
Mysterious fairy circles discovered in Australian outback By Jenni Ryall From Mashable A mysterious landscape phenomenon known as fairy circles has been found in the Australian outback. The fairy circles are characterised by a hexagonal organisation of soil gaps between…
Fishing for the future of Caribbean coral reefs
By University of Queensland From The Bahamas Weekly New science-based fishery regulations are needed if coral reefs are to have a future in the face of climate change. The study shows that Caribbean coral reefs are experiencing mounting pressure from…
