Hummingbird specialization and vulnerability are often predicted based on physical traits. Scientists have now found that this is not the case for hummingbirds on the Caribbean islands. Instead, the bird's environment is ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2018
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Once relegated to the dustbin of history, a Caribbean plant now has a name and a family.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2019
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The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood ...
Environment
May 7, 2013
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Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean Islands.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 15, 2021
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Hurricanes. Earthquakes. COVID-19.
Environment
May 29, 2020
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A new set of reports from the Commonwealth Secretariat have highlighted the potential for a more sustainable future in the Caribbean.
Environment
Apr 13, 2023
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Two Canadians and two Americans attempting to set a world record for an unassisted, human-powered row across the Atlantic Ocean have been rescued after a rogue wave capsized their boat after 73 days at sea, the U.S. Coast ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 7, 2013
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It was about 8:30 a.m., local time, on August 14, 2021, when I felt the room starting to shake. I was lying in my bed on the top (21st) floor of a hotel in the Dominican Republic, to the eastern side of Haiti. The picture ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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A juvenile green sea turtle rehabilitated at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital was fitted with a satellite-tracking transmitter and released Friday to join an online race that follows long-distance migrations of sea ...
Ecology
Jul 15, 2023
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Tropical Storm Dorian intensified Monday as it approached the Caribbean on a track that will take it near Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic by midweek, possibly at hurricane strength, US forecasters said.
Environment
Aug 27, 2019
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