Dive Adventure: Grand Cayman
By Michael Zeigler Amazing underwater photography opportunities abound in Grand Cayman When I heard that my employer’s annual “Apex Award” trip in January was to Grand Cayman (sweet!), I immediately started mentally preparing for all of the great underwater photo…
Exoplanet Kepler 37b is tiniest yet – smaller than Mercury
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Astronomers have smashed the record for the smallest planet beyond our Solar System – finding one only slightly larger than our Moon. To spot the tiny, probably rocky planet, they first…
World’s most extreme deep-sea vents revealed [in the Cayman Trough]
Released by University of Southampton Scientists have revealed details of the world’s most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor. The undersea hot springs, which lie 0.8 kilometres deeper than any seen before,…
Climate Change Strategies from a Country on Fire
From The Nature Conservancy Three recent events have made Australia a flashpoint for the global discussion around severe weather. The first: a rash of record temperatures and raging bushfires that has garnered international attention over the last several weeks. The…
Jamaica’s Solar Industry To Receive A Major Boost From USSolar
By Nicholas Brown Jamaica is an island in which the solar panel industry is small, but the Jamaican government’s Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) have implemented some policies that would provide solar panel owners and prospective buyers with more options…
CRFM Ministerial Sub-Committee on Flyingfish to meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad
“…the flyingfish has been recognised as the single most important small pelagic species in the southern Lesser Antilles.” BELIZE CITY, BELIZE; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013 – On Friday, 22 February 2013, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will convene a…
Another Rock Iguana Dead in Cayman Brac
The Department of Environment (DoE) is urging drivers on Cayman Brac to pay special attention to the road and adhere to the speed limits. This plea follows the death of another endangered Sister Islands Rock Iguana, affectionately known as Charlie,…
Arctic Ice Hasn’t Disappeared as Predicted
A leading climate scientist predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free in five years — five years ago. An article in The Guardian published in August 2008 reported the Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey Calif.,…
UNEP Backed Environmental Workshop for Caribbean Journalists
by Caribbean Climate Blog The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has created a workshop strictly for Journalist. This will educated many of us in the media to be better stewards towards the environment. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will…
Costa Rica Vacation Rental Company Adopts More Eco-Friendly Practices
By Manuel Antonio We at iNews Cayman and PRCaribbean understand the effect that deforestation is having on our climate change, thus, when hotel builders are turning their properties into an eco-friendly project, thus, adding green to its environs, the following…
