The garbage problem: the Caribbean tackles recycling
Although recycling technology has become so advanced that some companies can now take garbage as unpromising as old cigarette butts and...
Wide Sargassum sea
On my last flight to Barbados, I looked out of the aircraft window and saw scattered masses of brown matter floating on the sea. For a...
Tobago: green as an island
Driving through Tobago’s rainforest is like meditation. Free from human noise, the silence is filled instead with the heartbeat of life...
Show me your blue flag
It’s the last thing you want to think about while enjoying a dip in the sea, but if terms like “stormwater runoff” and “combined...
Trinidad’s leatherbacks: a place to nest
She would have been easier to spot under a full moon. The use of flashlights on this protected beach is restricted, and at this late hour...
Not just any old trash: recycling in the Caribbean
They’re everywhere: old cans, bottles, plastic containers, car bodies, refrigerators; in the gutters, on empty lots, in gullies, by...
June too soon! Tracking Caribbean hurricanes
With its blue skies, idyllic beaches, calm turquoise seas and verdant vegetation, you wouldn’t think the Caribbean could be anything but...
Iwokrama: Guyana’s green gold
In the shade of the forest, out of the burning heat of the sun, toucans are yapping to each other as shrilly as puppies. Vitus Antone...
