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Three red saildrones with built-in solar panels float in a line in the water beside a dock.
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An Unprecedented View Inside a Hurricane

by Gregory R. Foltz, Chidong Zhang, Christian Meinig, Jun A. Zhang and Dongxiao Zhang 6 May 202223 June 2022

To improve future tropical cyclone forecasts, researchers sent a remotely operated saildrone into the extreme winds and towering waves around the eye of a category 4 hurricane.

Aerial photo of Blackwood Sinkhole on Great Abaco, the Bahamas
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Early Inhabitants of the Bahamas Radically Altered the Environment

by L. Supriya 26 April 202111 October 2021

Clues in sediments show that once humans arrived on Great Abaco Island, they hunted large reptiles to extinction and burned the old hardwoods and palms, leading to new pine- and mangrove-dominated lands.

Scientists excavate the remains of a Taíno house at Los Buchillones, Cuba.
Posted inNews

Taíno Stilt Houses May Have Been an Adaptation to Climate Change

by L. Supriya 15 January 202128 October 2021

A coastal village in the Caribbean flourished during a period of increased hurricanes. Research suggests the Taíno designed their dwellings to persist through the greater storm surges.

Trail in a dry forest on Saint Lucia
Posted inNews

Empeora la Crisis Hídrica en el Caribe Oriental

by S. Peter 5 January 202110 November 2021

Científicos, políticos y pobladores temen que la actual escasez de agua y los largos períodos de sequía puedan empeorar a medida que cambie el clima y que el Acuerdo de París se haya quedado corto.

St. Barthélemy Island, viewed from the Coco Islet
Posted inScience Updates

By Land or Sea: How Did Mammals Get to the Caribbean Islands?

by P. Münch, P.-O. Antoine and B. Marcaillou 19 November 202029 September 2021

A multidisciplinary team is jointly investigating mammal evolution and subduction dynamics to unravel how flightless land mammals migrated to the Greater Antilles and other Caribbean islands.

Aerial photo of brown seaweed lining an entire stretch of a beach in Barbados
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Saint Lucia Works to Release Itself from Sargassum’s Stranglehold

by S. Peter 25 September 20203 November 2021

Nearly 10 years ago, Caribbean beaches experienced a sudden onslaught of Sargassum. Today residents continue to explore ways to mitigate the seaweed’s damage to local health and livelihoods.

Aerial photo of Cayos Cochinos, a series of small coral cays off the Caribbean coast of Honduras
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Scientists Support Local Activities to Rescue the Mesoamerican Reef

by J. Rodriguez 15 September 20206 January 2022

The reef’s report card analyzed 286 sites in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Communities, scientists, and governments are working to improve coral and ecosystem resilience.

Aerial image of the Great Blue Hole in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize
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Severe Cyclones May Have Played a Role in the Maya Collapse

by L. Supriya 1 September 20206 January 2022

Sediment cores from the Great Blue Hole reveal that a series of extreme storms hit the region after 900. The storms may have irreparably damaged an already stressed Maya population.

Trail in a dry forest on Saint Lucia
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Worsening Water Crisis in the Eastern Caribbean

by S. Peter 22 July 202010 November 2021

Scientists, policy makers, and residents are concerned that ongoing water shortages and longer periods of drought may worsen as the climate changes and that the Paris Agreement has fallen short.

A brown cow grazing in a green meadow in Colombia
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How Conflict Influenced Land Use in Colombia

by Kate Wheeling 20 November 20192 November 2021

Researchers use new maps and statistical techniques to infer how armed conflict influenced land cover in the understudied Caribbean region of the country.

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