Management plan [St Croix] for invasive lionfish open for public comment
By Joy Blackburn From Virgin Islands Daily News ST. CROIX – Several years after the predatory, invasive Pacific lionfish showed up in territorial waters, a task force of federal agencies has developed a draft National Invasive Lionfish Prevention and Management…
World’s smallest pacemaker can be implanted without surgery
Susan Young for MIT Technology Review From Mashable Pacemaker surgery typically requires a doctor to make an incision above a patient’s heart, dig a cavity into which they can implant the heartbeat-regulating device, and then connect the pulse generator to…
North Carolina abortion ultrasound rule violates first amendment, court says
By Mike Sacks, From The National Law Journal A federal appeals court Monday struck down a key provision of North Carolina’s abortion regulations as a violation of doctors’ First Amendment right to free speech. “Abortion may well be a special…
Worst ‘coral bleaching’ in nearly 20 years may be underway, scientists warn
By Andrew Freedman From Mashable In 1998, one of the most powerful El Niño events on record sent Pacific Ocean temperatures soaring to such heights that almost 20% of the world’s coral reefs experienced significant bleaching. Some of the reefs…
The Big Picture: Catching an intense solar flare in action
From engadget The X1.8 solar flare in ultraviolet light It’s no longer rare to hear reports of solar flares that could affect Earth, but seeing them in vivid detail? That’s another matter. Thankfully, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recently captured a…
The Lima Climate Summit: a failure in all but name
By Curtis Doebbler From Counterpunch The 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was held in Lima, Peru during the first two weeks of December 2014 was never intended to…
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Man killed and second hurt in Sheffield [UK] as gunman fires at car From BBC Emergency workers at the scene of the double shooting on Derek Dooley Way, Sheffield Derek Dooley Way in Sheffield was cordoned off to allow investigations…
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Cayman Islands man pleads guilty in boating incident Richard Morrison Stein pleaded guilty to causing damage to another vessel, Miss Michelle, in the Cayman Islands Summary Court last Tuesday (16). Stein admitted he was navigating the vessel, The Flying Scotsman,…
Cayman Islands HSA offering the ‘gold standard’ for endovascular repair
The repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is a difficult procedure normally only offered in centres with large populations; such as the United States and the United Kingdom however Dr Robin Windhaber, a surgeon at the Cayman Islands Health Services…
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Information for Cayman Islands students planning to study overseas Did you know that as a British Overseas Territory Citizen you are entitled to pay the ‘home rate’ of university fees if you choose to study in England? This means that…
