Reject Queen Conch Petition: CRFM urges [it affects Cayman too]
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013–The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), has made a formal request on behalf of the Caribbean Community to the United States-CARICOM Council on Trade and Investment, to reject the petition of WildEarth Guardians, an…
Will SeaWorld tank after expose in ‘Blackfish’?
By Al Lewis From Market Watch Stock sinks as documentary makes a big splash The more people see the film “Blackfish,” the deeper stock of SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. dives. Shares of Orlando, Fla.-based SeaWorld SEAS -0.65% have been sinking with…
10 Amazing new species:
10 Amazing new species: SpongeBob Fungus, Glass Frog, Tarsier & more By Cherise Udell From Care2 Every year about 18,000 new species are added to the annals of the earth’s biodiversity. To date, scientists have described and named about 2…
Scientists killed the world’s oldest creature – and then it got older
By Steve Williams From Care2 It looked just like any other mollusk when scientists from Bangor University, Wales in the UK, pulled it out of the water during a 2006 expedition to Iceland. It turned out that this rather unassuming…
No turtle release but Cayman Turtle Farm conservation concerns remain
From WSPA Every year, the Cayman Turtle Farm releases a handful of baby turtles into the wild in celebration of Pirates Week festival. From the outside it looks like a great conservation project but, sadly, it does more harm than…
Brevard Zoo unveils [Grand Cayman] blue iguana enclosure
By Rick Neale From FLORIDA TODAY VIERA — Resembling a miniature dragon, “Lola” clambered across her new enclosure toward a blue dish of banana slices, blueberries and prickly pear cactus fruit, her long claws and leathery tail scooting over rocks…
Sun flares & its magnetic field
From The Voice of Russia, RIA Third strong flare in 5 days unleashed by same sunspot Photo: © www.nasa.gov Sunspot AR1890, located close to the center of the solar disk, has unleashed its third X-class flare in 5 days. The…
Brighter than the sun:
Brighter than the sun: stunning new details on the meteor that exploded over Russia By Katie Drummond From The Verge Thanks largely to eyewitnesses and video footage, researchers have documented Chelyabinsk with incredible detail It was the blast felt around…
Scientists inch closer to banishing baldness
A joint UK and US team has developed a technique to grow human hair from tissue samples in a laboratory. LONDON, England, Friday November 1, 2013 – A joint British and American research team has developed a technique with the…
No turtles for the pirates
The Cayman Turtle Farm (CTF) has announced there will be no release of baby and juvenile Green Sea Turtles during the annual Pirates Week Festival on Grand Cayman this month. One hundred and fifty turtles were released into the wild…
