Water clouds beyond solar system
Scientists find the first water clouds beyond the Solar System By Jon Fingas From engadget Evidence shows that a failed star has water vapor clouds. At last, astronomers have found evidence of watery clouds beyond our home star… only they’re…
Caribbean News iBusiness iCommunity iEnvironment iLocal News iScience iTech iWorld News News Publisher's Choice
Dominica is CARICOM forerunner in renewable energy use, latest ECLAC report reveals
With renewables accounting for 28 per cent of electricity generation, Dominica is the CARICOM member which consumes the largest proportion of its energy from renewable sources according to the newly released ECLAC study ‘Barriers to Identification and Implementation of Energy…
Caribbean News iCommunity iEnvironment iFinance iFood iHealth iLocal News iScience iWorld News News Publisher's Choice
Monster’ El Niño subsides, La Niña hitting soon
By Baher Kamal From Inter Press Service ROME, Jul 18 2016 (IPS) – As if human-made armed conflicts, wickedness, rights abuse, gender violence, cruel inequality and climate catastrophes were not enough, now the saying “God Always Forgives, Men Sometimes, Nature…
Caribbean News iBusiness iCommunity iFinance iHealth iLocal News iScience iTech iWorld News News Publisher's Choice
New therapy to reduce hair loss trauma for chemo patients in Cayman Islands
The Health Services Authority (HSA) Chemotherapy Unit now offers cold cap therapy that may help to prevent or reduce hair loss among chemotherapy patients thanks to a donation made by the Breast Cancer Foundation (BCF). The BCF recently donated 50…
Guyana seeking US help to determine cause of sudden poultry deaths
From Jamaica Observer GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Guyana is seeking assistance from the United States as it seeks to determine what is responsible for the sudden poultry deaths in East Bank, Berbice. Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana…
Cloud migration patterns signify climate ghange
By Maureen Foody From wn.com Scientists using satellite images have established some of the most concrete changes caused by a warming climate in reduced cloudiness in Earth’s tempterate mid-latitude regions while the poleward zones have had a massive expansion according to…
Tenet: FDA approves new weight-loss option
New FDA approves new weight-loss option – promises significant benefits to Caribbean patients who want to lose weight without surgical intervention. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new balloon device to treat obesity without the need for…
iBusiness iCommunity iFinance iHealth iLocal News iScience iTech iWorld News News Publisher's Choice
FDA halts Juno’s gene-altering cancer trials after three deaths
By David Lumb From engadget Company stock plummeted 27 percent after the suspension. The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily halted a cancer-treating study after three patients died of swelling in the brain. Biopharmaceutical company Juno Therapeutics had been testing an…
Cayman Islands planning on releasing GM mosquitoes next week
Additional control measures to combat Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, are set to begin in West Bay next week. Operational roll-out of a technique involving genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will come a week…
On March 24th 2015 Antarctica may have just set its highest temperature on record
BY ANDREW FREEDMAN From Mashable Antarctica, Earth’s coldest, most barren continent, may have just set a remarkably unusual weather record. An Argentinian research station on the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula recorded a high temperature of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees…
