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…
U.N. climate meet becomes about “not losing ground”
From Independent European Daily Express WARSAW – Diann Black-Layne grew up in a single parent home with nine siblings on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua. Still, life was easygoing and enjoyable, she recalls. For her, it was paradise. But…
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…
New massive solar power plant goes online in Japan
Posted by hipstomp / Rain Noe From Core77 Japan was once colloquially known as the Land of the Rising Sun, and it can’t be only environmentalists hoping that a country with such a moniker would take solar power to heart….
Invasive sea grass spreads to Caribbean area
From Amigoe WILLEMSTAD — The invasive sea grass Halophila stipulacea has spread to more islands in the Caribbean area since 2011. According to former director of Carmabi, Dr. Dolfi Debrot – currently researcher of Imares, the marine institute of the…
HIT to launch Baltic Sea regeneration project
One aspect of our technology not previously revealed is its use in cleaning up and regenerating the seas. The Baltic sea is in a critical state of degeneration with toxicity levels at an all time high. The Baltic and its…
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…
Cayman Islands tables National Conservation Bill
The (draft) National Conservation Bill for November 2013 has now been tabled in the Legislative Assembly by the Minister for Environment the Honourable Wayne Panton for public and legislative consideration. The bill, which is now available for public review, was…
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…
Gramma dejongi discovered living in the Cayman Islands
By Jake Adams From Reef Builders It’s official, Gramma dejongi is no longer a Cuban endemic reef fish and therefore no longer confined to the embargo dropnet of the United States. More importantly, the fact that Gramma dejongi occurs outside…
