Celestial Manoeuvres
At the time of writing this article last July, the Earth had just had three relatively close shaves with asteroids. An asteroid named 2001...
Roses Are Red, Roses Are Blue…
Love songs and Valentine cards celebrate what we know — roses are red, violets blue. But, to some people, this suggests the question:...
Andros: deepest blue
Except for the briny taste of the water and the striking absence of mountains along the horizon — no matter the direction — any visitor...
Biodiversity bonanza: Guyana’s Rupununi
Guyana is one of the few places on earth where large tracts of natural habitat are still intact. And the biggest Caricom nation is...
Dave Chadee — mosquito man
Consider this: mosquitoes kill more people (and livestock) than any other animal on the planet. The Dracula of the insect world transmits a...
Keys to the coral kingdom: protecting Caribbean reefs
A pinhead. Worth US$375 billion. Annually. This is the magical mathematics of coral: a microscopic organism, invisible to the naked eye,...
What lies beneath: geothermal energy in Dominica
Dominica’s Valley of Desolation is actually a place of great hope — if you know what you are looking at, that is. This desolate,...
Guyana’s Forest Economics
Blue poison-dart frogs. Emerald tree boa constrictors. Black caimans. Three-toed sloths. Regular ole jaguars. These are merely five of the...
