And my octopus is in my pocket
Diving Belize’s great barrier reef It was when I saw that palm tree go sailing through the air that I really began to question what I...
Get it while it’s hot: Barbados’ solar energy revolution
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of...
The double chaconia
It was Grace Mulloon and fellow naturalist David Auyong who first spotted the magnificent scarlet inflorescence among a group of wild...
Once bitten: Chikungunya in the Caribbean
One Panadol, one Panadol! One Panadol, one Panadol! The catchy hook line is the latest “lick” in Jamaica, where up-and-coming dancehall...
On the wing: birdwatching in the Caribbean
Every year, from mid-December to early January, thousands of people across the Western Hemisphere get up before the crack of dawn and...
It started with a snake
The story of the Antigua and Barbuda Environmental Awareness Group’s Offshore Islands Conservation Project (OICP) begins with the...
Save our sharks
Sharks are a hard sell to most humans — unless they’re deep-fried and smothered in pineapple, chadon beni, tamarind, and garlic sauce,...
Starwatch: Star Showers
Although two partial solar eclipses occur in July- on the 1st and 31st – they are not visible from the Caribbean region. Visitors...
