Woolly mammoth skeleton to fetch up to £250,000 at auction
By Blathnaid Healy From Mashable LONDON — It’s not an item you would usually expect to find in an auction house, but someone will walk away Wednesday as the new owner of a woolly mammoth skeleton. Lot 92 in the…
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Cayman Airways adds extra cargo flights for December Cayman Airways Cargo has added additional cargo flights from Miami, Florida to Grand Cayman in December to assist local businesses with the extra cargo shipments they usually require during the busy holiday…
Female primates are promiscuous to stop males from killing their offspring
By Kashmira Gander From The Independent “As a result, some males have testicles which are up to 10 times larger than normal in breeding season” Some female primates are promiscuous in order to prevent males from killing their offspring. It…
Less rainfall means increasingly hotter and drier Caribbean
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, (CUOPM) – A Jamaican researcher has warned that the Caribbean will have to take steps to respond to climate change, as predictions are that the region will become increasingly hotter and drier if global temperature rise continues…
Climatologist: 30-year cold spell strikes Earth
By Clayton B. Reid From Newsmax With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. — along with last winter described by USA Today as “one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record” —…
Airport Carbon Accreditation programme goes global
From Airport World The Airport Carbon Accreditation programme now covers every region of the globe after it was announced at the 23rd ACI Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Annual Conference and General Assembly in Cancun last week it was to…
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Genetically modified mosquitoes to battle disease-carrying bugs closer to approval
By William Axford From KeysInfoNet Genetically modified mosquitoes created to decrease the number of disease-carrying mosquitoes in the Lower Keys could be released by the spring, officials say. Scientists from Oxitec, a British company that has released genetically modified mosquitoes…
Incredible comet mission
Incredible comet mission finds compounds that could be the basis of life on Earth By Victoria Bryan, Reuters From Business Insider Astronomers Caught This Amazing Stellar Pulse With The Hubble Telescope BERLIN (Reuters) – European comet lander Philae ‘sniffed’ carbon-based,…
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Iguanas need our help in many locales [including Cayman Islands]
Keith Winsten From Florida Today How much can you learn from a lizard? A lot, it turns out. Next year the International Iguana Foundation (IIF) turns 20 — and I’ve been associated with the group for the last seven years….
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Government companies to be scrutinized closely by Cayman Island government Speaking at a press briefing, last week, Cayman Islands Premier, Alden McLaughlin, said government was bringing in a new law in the New Year that will change the rules regarding…
