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The View from Europe: Climate change, the Pope and the Caribbean
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now In a little over a month’s time, negotiators from around the world will gather in Paris to try to reach a final and globally binding agreement on a new treaty on climate change….
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LAC region calls for climate finance and market-based instruments in the Paris agreement
9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum concludes Santiago de Chile, 11 September 2015 – The 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) concluded today in Santiago de Chile, where key business and government representatives from across the…
Militant Pacific islands ready to fight
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now The island-states of the Pacific are outraged at what they regard as indifference by industrialised countries of the effects of climate change on their survival and, in some cases, their very existence….
Brave souls enter isolation dome to begin simulation of life on Mars
By Liza Hearon From Mashable Six smiling people entered a dome on a barren Hawaiian volcano on Friday afternoon, and it remains to be seen whether they’ll still be smiling after a year of isolation to simulate life on Mars….
Charlie Hebdo hunt: Police storm two hostage sites/ Flight QZ8501 tail found
Charlie Hebdo hunt: Police storm two hostage sites From BBC French police have stormed two hostage sites in the Paris area, killing three hostage takers. Two brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo magazine shootings were killed in an assault at…
Serious Entertaining: Grilled cheese roll-ups for a crowd
By J. Kenji Lopez-Alt From Serious Eats [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] I’m not going to try to pretend to take credit for this genius idea—I saw it late the other night during my daily pre-bedtime bath (not to be confused…
UN members agree deal at Lima climate talks
From BBC Developing countries have accused wealthier nations of failing to take responsibility for climate change United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to…
The first photograph of a human being
By Amanda Uren From Mashable This picture, the earliest known photograph to include a recognizable human form, was taken in Paris, France, in 1838 by Louis Daguerre. The human in question is standing in the bottom-left of the photograph, on…
Caribbean villa places in the world’s top 10 most expensive hotel suites
From The Daily Herald NEW YORK, United States–For most of us, the notion of a night at one of the world’s top 10 most expensive hotel suites is no more than a flight of fancy, the more so given that…
UPDATED: 3rd Airline crash in 1 week:
3rd Airline crash in 1 week: Algeria airliner feared crashed on flight from Burkina Faso/ Taiwan plane crash toll reaches 48 UPDATE: Air Algerie AH5017: ‘No survivors’ from crash in Mali From BBC There are no survivors from the Air Algerie…
