The Caribbean-Americans searching for their Chinese roots
BY EVELINE CHAO From Atlas Obscura Hakka Conferences are allowing distant relatives to meet and untangle their complex genealogy. RICARDO HOYEN LIKES TO JOKE that he was kidnapped. He was born in Jamaica, where he grew up in Kingston, but…
June does it again: Global temperature sets 14th consecutive monthly record
By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson From Weather Underground Even with the intense 2015 – 2016 El Niño event out of the picture, June 2016 was still the planet’s warmest June since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA’s National…