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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…
Termites and fungi are ‘more important’ than climate change
By Tim Sandle From Digital Journal Tallahassee – A new research report argues that the activities of termites and fungi are more important than climate change in relation to the breakdown and decomposition of matter. A widely held scientific view…
Humanitarian’s meet in the Caribbean to review and update contingency plans for Hurricane season
From International federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies The 2014 Hurricane season is now in session as Hurricane Amanda has now passed and Tropical Depression 2-E is now churning off the coast of Mexico unleashing heavy rains, prompting…
