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The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake rediscovered in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025
A view from Saint George on the island of Antigua and Barbuda. Image by docshiznit via Wikimedia Commons.

Small island nations provide big environmental solutions but need finance partners (commentary)

Gaston Browne 15 Jul 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease

Marco Lopez 9 Jul 2025
Abundant in the Sargasso Sea (above), sargassum has been blossoming in the Caribbean and on the Amazon shore.

New study dismisses Amazon River runoff as primary cause of sargassum blooms

Julian Reingold 11 Jun 2025
A diver applies an amoxicillin paste to stony coral tissue loss disease-affected corals in Roatan, Honduras. The antibiotic paste can slow or halt lesion progression. Image by Antonio Busiello.

Researchers race to understand disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates

Ruth Kamnitzer 6 Jun 2025
Nontoxic dye released from an artificial upwelling experiment off the Canary Islands. That experiment, set to last weeks, ended after just one day when the pump failed. “To most of us that proved … the technical readiness of this approach is not there,” says Michael Sswat, a postdoctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, who was part of the research team.

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2025
Roots and nodules of a lab-grown yam plant. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele / IITA.

Farmers turn to living ‘yam sticks’ to grow their crop and spare the forest

Mark Hillsdon 3 Apr 2025
A Caribbean reef shark.

Caribbean reef sharks rebound in Belize with shark fishers’ help

Marco Lopez 13 Mar 2025
Indigenous gathering in the Caribbean. Image courtesy of Caroline Mair-Toby.

I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)

Caroline Mair-Toby 15 Nov 2024
Fish at a coral reef in Mexico.

Lab-grown corals resisted bleaching during Caribbean’s worst marine heat wave

Caitlin Cooper 19 Sep 2024
Green Phenix artist Erwin Sprot with one of his creations, a human figure made with beer crown caps.

Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?

Sandra Weiss 20 May 2024
Sargassum in Villa Clara province, Cuba.

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling 16 Apr 2024
Bissy (Cola acuminata) fruit pod, seeds, and grated seeds, to make bissy tea, a morning tea and medicinal beverage

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Jan 2024
Mona Webber pointing at a mangrove restoration site on Norman Manly Highway.

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Nov 2023
A sperm whale calf swims near the surface in waters off Dominica.

Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Nov 2023
Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax)

Sliver of hope as ‘mountain chicken’ frog shows resistance to deadly disease

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Oct 2023
Seabirds on Redonda Island cliffs.

From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Sep 2023

In Mexico’s Holbox, a natural paradise suffers from its own popularity

Sandra Weiss 4 Sep 2023

Study: Protecting marine life is a big benefit to local communities, too

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2023

Prickly babies: A Jamaican nursery aims to restore sea urchins felled by disease

Gladstone Taylor 3 Aug 2023
A leatherback hatchling.

Tag team effort brings tech to aid leatherback turtle conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jul 2023
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

Claudia Geib 6 Jul 2023

The ‘Sloth Lady of Suriname’: Q&A with Monique Pool

Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia 30 Jun 2023

Parasites of the Caribbean: Study pinpoints cause of sea urchin die-off

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Apr 2023
A farmer embracing agroecological approaches in Haiti. Photo credit: Ben Depp

Agroecology is a poverty solution in Haiti (commentary)

Cantave Jean-Baptiste, Steve Brescia 6 Mar 2023

Murdered Belize environmentalist helped boost marine conservation through technology

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jan 2023
The author poses/hides in a mangrove at low tide. Image by Morgan Erickson-Davis.

Top mangrove news of 2022

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2022

Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2022
Surveying Grand Bois National Park.

Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2022
Mangroves in Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. Image by Anton Bielousov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mangrove restorers in Haiti bet on resilience amid rising violence

Conrad Fox 29 Sep 2022
Residents of Port-au-Prince wait outside a store to purchase bottled water.

Haiti: An island nation whose environmental troubles only begin with water

Conrad Fox 28 Sep 2022

Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows

Sarah Sax 26 Sep 2022

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