Law firm supports Cayman Islands marine institute
Stuart Walkers Hersant Humphries supports CCMI’s long term monitoring programme and CREWS2 maintenance LITTLE CAYMAN July 21, 2015- Law firm Stuarts Walkers Hersant Humphries has recently announced its $15,000 commitment to supporting the Central Caribbean Marine Institute’s long-term monitoring programme…
Increased activity not a sign of big quake in the making, seismic unit says
From CARIBBEAN360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday July 20, 2015 – The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre says while the increased seismic activity in the Eastern Caribbean isn’t enough, on its own, to suggest something menacing is coming this…
Creepy or cool? Your phone knows when you’re depressed
By Dr Siri From The Daily Beast A new study from Northwestern used an individual’s smartphone habits to predict whether or not the individual was depressed. Smartphones can feel your pain—literally. A new study from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of…
The business case for the Carbon Tax
By Julie Fox Gorte from Caribbean Life History offers a great many examples of individuals, groups and societies that lived too much in the moment and compromised longer term prosperity — or in some cases (think Easter Island) even survival….
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…