Dim red stars
Dim red stars that are nothing like the sun may be our best hope of finding aliens By Dave Mosher From Business Insider A group of dozens of astronomers have found evidence of a small, rocky, and potentially watery world…
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IAEA hosts Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. experts on fight against screwworm pest
Vienna, Austria The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is hosting an expert meeting this week to discuss stepping up efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating insect pest that remains a threat…
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Green iguana crisis overwhelming Cayman Islands
From The Philadelphia Tribune “Desperate times calls for desperate measures” is a quote that certainly applies to the situation in Grand Cayman, the largest of the Cayman Islands. The government officials of the Cayman Islands have been desperately searching for…
Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish
By Hazel Sheffield From Independent UK Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent…
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Bosman seeks attention for islands’ coral reefs
From St. Maarten The Daily Herald THE HAGUE–This week’s symposium on Caribbean coral reefs at the Royal Palace on the Dam in Amsterdam has raised questions by Member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament André Bosman of the…
The Arctic is now missing enough ice to cover 23 US states
By Rafi Letzte From Business Insider Look at the map above. Go to the upper right-hand corner, start with Maine, and start counting. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North…
A tiny version of Hell on Earth exists in Cleveland, Ohio
By Dave Mosher From Business Insider Inside a windowless concrete room in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists have built a tiny version of Hell on Earth. Called the Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER), the 14-ton steel chamber can faithfully recreate the toxic,…
Valuable Caribbean spiny lobsters get their food from an unexpected source
From PHYS.Org In the typical food web that most of us learned in school, the sun is the ultimate source of energy. Plants use energy from the sun to produce their own food via photosynthesis. Animals eat those plants or…
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Scientists find bacteria resistant to last-ditch drug treatments
By Jon Fingas From engadget It’s a warning that medicine needs to find an alternative to current antibiotics. If there wasn’t already a reason to develop a solution to drug-resistant “superbugs,” there is now. Scientists have found bacteria on an…
Cayman Islands Fire Service offers extinguisher training
It takes only seconds for a fire to spread, and the Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) says knowing how to react is the key to surviving any blaze. Divisional Officer Witney Tatum, with the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Fire…
