There is another Caribbean, beyond the blood, the beach and the banana
By Akala From theguardian.com Why have so few people heard of the Caribbean that produced Walter Rodney, CLR James and Toussaint L’Ouverture? As I sat in the heat of a Jamaican afternoon within touching distance of the Caribbean sea listening…
Moderate earthquake – Cayman Islands Region on June 21, 2014
By Armand Vervaeck From Eartquake Report Most important Earthquake Data: Magnitude : 4.3 Local Time (conversion only below land) : 07:52:57.8 GMT/UTC Time : 2014-06-21 12:52:58 Depth (Hypocenter) : 10 km Earthquake-report.com only survives with (mostly small) PRIVATE DONATIONS. Your gift…
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Remember Brazil’s poor and dispossessed during the FIFA World Cup
By Arley Gill ST GEORGE’S,, Grenada, Tuesday June 17, 2014 – As we get ready to enjoy this year’s FIFA World Cup football in Brazil, one cannot help but to notice that the build up to the championships has being…
Bacterial suspects identified in Caribbean coral deaths
By Michael Marshall from New Scientist Three bacteria seem to be responsible for a disease that has killed most of the Caribbean’s reef-building corals. White band disease causes the outer layer of corals to turn white and peel off. First…
Sun emits 3 powerful X-Class solar flares in 2 Days
By Andrew Freedman From Mashable Starting on June 10, the sun emitted a series of powerful solar flares, known as “X-Class” flares, which were observed in brilliant colors by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The flares erupted from the left side…
Taking action to reduce carbon pollution at the state, local, and tribal level
By David Agnew, Mike Boots From The Whitehouse Blog This morning [June 2 2014], the Obama administration put forward the first-ever plan to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. Cutting carbon emissions will help prevent up to 6,500 premature deaths…
Dr. Jeff Masters: Bogus GFS Model forecasts of Atlantic tropical cyclone genesis
By Dr. Jeff Masters From Weather Underground There are no tropical cyclone threat areas in the Atlantic to discuss today, and none of the reliable models for forecasting tropical cyclone genesis is predicting development over the coming five days. However,…
Titanic explorer investigates the ‘Caribbean’s Deadly Underworld’
By Gerri Miller From Mother Nature Network Under the sea disasters, like volcanoes and landslides, can create habitats for all sorts of marine life, including colonies of shrimp, lionfish, and enormous mussels. A remote-controlled submersible explores the ocean depths in…
Carbon neutral tourism falters in Tobago
By Jewel Fraser From Caribbean360 SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, Friday June 6, 2014, IPS – An initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of Tobago’s tourism sector may be stymied by “bread-and-butter issues” and the failure of government authorities to vigorously pursue the…
Hidden Antarctic volcanoes are expediting glacial melt
By Stephanie Pappas Live Science Contributor for LiveScience From Mashable Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you’ll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes. Now, a new study…
