+Energy | February 6, 2012
Danita Delimont

Island Blues: A Caribbean Country’s Troubled Experiment with Geothermal Power

By Joe Jackson

St. Kitts and Nevis, with a population of just over 50,000 and covering a mere 100 sq. mi. — one and a half times the size of Washington, D.C. — is the smallest sovereign nation, by size and population, in the Americas. The two-island federation in the east Caribbean is perhaps best known for welcoming wealthy tourists to its [...]

+Water | November 16, 2010

Is the Caribbean Heading for Another Record Year in Coral Loss?

By Krista Mahr

Anybody who has been visiting coral reefs for the past 20 years or so will tell you that the scene underwater pales – quite literally – in comparison to what it used to be. New research published in PLoS ONE yesterday shows that coral bleaching in the Atlantic and the Caribbean in 2005 was the [...]