By Maura Imbert ● Issue 58 (November/December 2002)
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...
Culture, Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 57 (September/October 2002)
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:...
Arrive, Environment, Travel, The Bahamas
By Noelle Nicolls ● Issue 127 (May/June 2014)
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...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Science, Guyana
By Burton Lim ● Issue 127 (May/June 2014)
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...
Engage, Culture, Environment, People, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nazma Muller ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 126 (March/April 2014)
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...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Science, Bonaire
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
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,...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Science, Dominica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
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,...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Business, Guyana
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 123 (September/October 2013)
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...