Unfortunately, I’ve decided to suspend regular posting on Green Antilles for a while in order to focus on finishing my PhD thesis. I will continue to post links to Caribbean green news stories on the Green Antilles Facebook page, so I recommend that you follow Green Antilles on Facebook if you’re not already doing so. [...]
Archive | June, 2011
Ecopark Curaçao: a research and development centre for renewable technologies
I was asked to share this event notice and invitation (for everyone who is interested in renewable energy in the Caribbean) with Green Antilles readers: Event: Ecopark Curacao presentation Date: July 7th Time: 3.30pm Location: Aula, UNA Registration: www.aanmelder.nl/ecoparkcuracao Hereby, we would like to invite you to the presentation of the Ecopark Curacao project that [...]
Vacancy: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture – Specialist in Technological Innovation, Caribbean
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture has a Caribbean vacancy for a Specialist in Technological Innovation. Find out more in the vacancy announcement below. The deadline for application is July 19, 2011.
Grouper’s Last Stand
Marine reserves protecting one of the last great populations of an imperiled Caribbean reef fish, the Nassau grouper, are about to expire in the Cayman Islands. Learn about the benefits of these protections, the risk associated with losing them, and research being done by the REEF Grouper Moon Project in collaboration with the C.I. Department [...]
Environmental awareness raising in St. Lucia, through the interactive Our Planet centre
A state of the art interactive environmental education centre has opened in St. Lucia: Our Planet is the only interactive visitor centre of its kind in the world. At Our Planet visitors can: • Walk through the Immersion Tunnel showing how our Planet and its climate started; • Sit in the “Mirrorsphere” and see a [...]
Natural earthquake protection system discovered in the Caribbean
An article from MIT’s Technology Review provides an example of how we can learn from nature: Liquefaction is one of the major hazards associated with earthquakes. This phenomenon occurs when the shaking generated by a quake causes soil or sand saturated with water to lose its mechanical strength and behave like a liquid. The results [...]
Caribbean facing a “perpetual recession” as a result of climate change
Climate change could cause a perpetual recession in the Caribbean: Many Caribbean states are likely to fall into perpetual recession as a result of climate shocks to their key tourism and agricultural industries unless they move quickly to shore up their defences, regional experts warned this week. Worsening droughts and tropical storms, coastal erosion and [...]
Rat predation a problem for bird conservation in the Caribbean
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reports on a study which found that endangered bird species in the Caribbean are being preyed upon by rats: Jason Townsend, a graduate student at the State University of New York, was doing research on Bicknell’s Thrush in the Dominican Republic when he got a real eye-opener. “When we first [...]
Guantanamo: “a biologist’s dream”
An article from the New York Times about the rich biodiversity of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station: When most people think of the American base at Guantanamo Bay, they think of the nine controversial detention camps that house prisoners of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But for the service members, contractors and families who [...]
