CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – WRITING FOR OUR LIVES
THE CROPPER FOUNDATION You are: a Caribbean national, writing in English and resident in the Caribbean. You write: poetry, fiction, or non-fiction. For: Writing for Our Lives, an anthology of stories illuminating the urgency of the climate crisis for people and communities of Caribbean states marked by their varied yet substantial vulnerabilities. When: Submission deadline […]
‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: can Jamaica adapt to the Caribbean’s increasingly unpredictable weather?
The Guardian by Gladstone Jones In February, a cold front turned into a storm causing millions in damage – and highlighted a new and urgent need for adaptation and mitigation projects. On 5 and 6 February, a combination of heavy rain and tides hit Jamaica’s north coast about 130 miles west of the capital, Kingston. The […]
Caribbean Startups are Turning Excess Seaweed into an Agroecology Solution
by Marlowe Starling on 16 April 2024; Mongabay Series: Agroecology, Oceans In 2015, smelly mats of a brown macroalgae called sargassum piled as high as 1.2 meter (4 feet) on the beaches of Barbados, recalls Joshua Forte. It was the fourth year in what has become an annual nightmare, with an estimated 18,100 kilograms (20 tons) of seaweed inundating […]
What you need to know about the latest outbreak of dengue fever
Health Apr 12, 2024 2:42 PM EDT; PBS HOUR by Laura Santhanam Roughly 4.7 million people have been infected with dengue fever so far in 2024, an explosion of cases centered in Latin America and the Caribbean that experts warn could grow. “We’re seeing a worrisome trend of expansion and increasing circulation of the virus at […]