By: Staff Writer July 29, 2022 A Barbadian agricultural entrepreneur is making the invasive and destructive sargassum seaweed into big business, turning it into plant fertilizer, using it to develop…
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Extreme events and persistent droughts made COVID-19 worse says WMO!
By: Staff Writer July 29, 2022 The World Meteorological Organisation says in their “State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), 2021” report that while climate change is…
What’s a shark ordinarily associated with the Arctic doing around a Caribbean coral reef?
July 29, 2022 A half-blind shark that is typically thought to live in freezing Arctic waters, scavenge on polar bear carcasses and survive for hundreds of years, recently turned up…
UWI-SRC: Earthquakes in region more common with more people recording events!
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,…
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…