Researchers are crowdfunding in a last-resort to save the orange-bellied parrot
BY JOHNNY LIEU From Mashable The orange-bellied parrot has long been threatened with extinction in the wild, but it’s only recently researchers realised just how much trouble the species is in. Each year, researchers keep track of how many of…
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Zika no longer global ‘Health Emergency,’ WHO declares
By MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF From Goats and Soda The World Health Organization announced Friday that it no longer considers the Zika epidemic a public health emergency of international concern. But Zika’s threat to pregnant women and babies is not going away…
Cayman Islands Zika cases reaches 30
Zika Virus Update as of 17 November 2016 The total number of locally transmitted laboratory confirmed cases of the Zika virus reached 20, as of 17 November 2016. Laboratory diagnosed imported cases remain at 10. The total number of all…
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Suriname recognized for drastically reducing malaria
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life The Washington, D.C.-based Pan American Health Organization has recognized Suriname, along with Costa Rica, and El Salvador, for drastically reducing malaria cases and deaths, rewarding them with the “Malaria Champions Award.” Advances in…
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Industrial Hemp, medical marijuana to be explored at major Caribbean conference
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life The Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) says that industrial hemp and medical marijuana will be explored this week at a major Caribbean conference in Washington, D.C. The Washington D.C-based institute is urging the…
Physicists just discovered a second state of liquid water
By Bec Crew, ScienceAlert From Business Insider It’s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly 60 percent of the human body, and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have…
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Corals survived Caribbean climate change
SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes. Which ones survived? Scientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) think…
The best 2016 supermoon photo we’ve seen yet took several years of waiting
By Dave Mosher From Business Insider The largest moon of the year, called the supermoon, shined its biggest and brightest in nearly 70 years early Monday morning. Supermoons happen when the moon’s wonky elliptical orbit lines up perfectly with the…
Humans are still evolving in some surprising ways
By Darren Curnoe, The Conversation From Business Insider It’s often said that through our innovations in science, agriculture and medicine humans have become masters of our biological destiny. That we’ve seized control of our evolution, eliminating most of the causes…
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Marijuana use has been linked with a dangerous heart condition
By Laura Beil, Science News From Business Insider NEW ORLEANS — Marijuana use is associated with an almost doubled risk of developing stress cardiomyopathy, a sudden life-threatening weakening of the heart muscle, according to a new study. Cannabis fans may…
