By: Staff Writer July 1, 2022 Director of UWI Seismic Research Centre Dr Euroscilla Joseph says that earthquakes in the region are more common with more people recording the activity,…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
The least responsible suffers the greatest in climate challenge.
By: Staff Writer June 24, 2022 Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Philip Davis, QC, said at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Business Forum that Caribbean nations are experiencing…
Guyana to promote the use of renewable energy sources with IDB and Norway support
June 21, 2022 Guyana will promote its energy matrix diversification by promoting climate-resilient renewable energy sources use in the electricity generation matrix to avoid deforestation and face climate change, with a…
Hurricane center watches possible Caribbean tropical system
By Roger Simmons Orlando Sentinel June 14, 2022 The US National Hurricane Center forecasters are keeping an eye out for a tropical system that could develop later this week over the…
SCIENTISTS WARN THREAT FROM CORAL DISEASE REMAINS DIRE: URGENT ACTION WILL BE NEEDED FOR YEARS
June 14, 2022 Once bursting with color and life, Bahamian coral reefs have taken heavy beatings since the highly contagious Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) first assaulted the country…
Stinky seaweed is clogging Caribbean beaches, but a New Zealand solution could turn it into green power and fertilizer
By: Saeid Baroutian and Terrell Thompson, The Conversation June 3, 2022 Rotting seaweed has plagued the Caribbean for more than 10 years—but our research shows how we could clean up beaches and emissions…
TS Alex forming as Hurricane Agatha dissipates
By: Staff Writer May 31, 2022 Agatha is dissipating but its remnants are forecast to be drawn into a system that could bring heavy rain and gusty winds to Florida…
The future of climate change fight is in the ICC
By: Staff Writer May 6, 2022 The Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) believes that in the future the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be more…
There is a crisis in Caribbean waters with sea urchins dying off says top marine scientist
By: Staff Writer May 3, 2022 A senior Caribbean marine scientist said that the dying off of the long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum/Diadema) and the re-emergence of the Sargassum needs…
When a pristine Caribbean mangrove was decimated by a tourism project, locals on Union Island found a way restore it to its former glory.
April 22, 2022 On a sweltering summer day in 1994, an ancient mangrove forest on Union Island was ripped apart. A foreign investor had started the foundation work for a…
World Bank urges “Green World Order” to meet post-pandemic challenges
By: Staff Writer April 19, 2022 The World Bank says that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is well positioned to take advantage of the “emerging Green World Order,” and…
Triple-I: 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast to be ‘Above-Normal’
April 19, 2022 An above-normal level of tropical cyclone activity is projected for 2022 in the Atlantic basin, according to a forecast released today by Colorado State University’s (CSU) Department of Atmospheric Science. Led…