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Major greenhouse gases hit record highs in 2014: report
From Caribbean Digital Network | July 17, 2015 (AFP) – All the major greenhouse gases that fuel global warming hit record highs last year, while the planet’s surface temperature reached its hottest point in 135 years, international researchers said Thursday….
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Community Events Meeting Requests with Family Support Unit at RCIPS The Family Support Unit (FSU) at the RCIPS has temporarily relocated to Elizabethan Square due to damage to the Smith Road office where it was situated. The FSU would like…
New Horizons: Spacecraft survives Pluto encounter
By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News On Tuesday, the US space agency released the most detailed view of Pluto yet A signal received from the New Horizons spacecraft shows that it survived its historic encounter with Pluto. Data in…
Sonar-mapping ship looks for baby lobsters, finds dead volcanoes
By Mona Lalwani From Engadget You never know what you might find when you’re looking for lobster larvae. Iain Suthers, a marine biologist at the University of New South Wales, recently led a team of 28 scientists on board Australia’s…
Very soon, robotic drones will automatically follow you (or your kids) around
By Julie Bort From Business Insider By now, most of us have seen a remote-controlled camera drone flying around taking pictures from above. There’s about 1 million of them out there used by hobbyists, according to Helen Greiner, CEO of…
As new horizons reaches Pluto, arguments will be settled and mysteries revealed
By Tim Reyes from Techcrunch Three decades of development are about to culminate in a 24 hour period of discovery. Today (Tue 14) NASA’s New Horizons space probe will reach the finale of its 9-year journey to the outer reaches…
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The chemistry that’s fading billions of dollars of artwork
By Elizabeth Goldbaum for LiveScience from Mashable Scientists are peeling back layers of paint to get to the root of an enduring plague that is threatening century-old art by the likes of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse….
Gifts of the Solstice: Native St. John’s Wort
From The Medicine Woman’s Roots St. John’s Wort has long been one of those herbs that I have great respect for and love as medicine, but have used it minimally simply because it’s not plentiful in my bioregion. Native species…
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Cayman Islands: CCMI hosts new summer lecture series with NOAA AOML Oceanographers
This summer, the Central Caribbean Marine Institute will be diving into a new outreach initiative with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. From June through August, AOML researchers will give a series of talks…
Rare system of five stars discovered
By Paul Rincon Science editor, From BBC Astronomers have discovered a very rare system of five connected stars. The quintuplet consists of a pair of closely linked stars – binaries – one of which has a lone companion; it is…
