Tag: Caribbean
How Maduro’s capture went down – a military strategist explains what...
R. Evan Ellis, The Center for Strategic and International Studies
The predawn seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on...
Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US...
Francisco J. Monaldi, Rice University
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast looks designed to...
Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking...
James T. Stroud, Georgia Institute of Technology
Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban...
Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes
Farah Nibbs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw...
China’s Belt and Road infrastructure projects could help or hurt oceans...
Blake Alexander Simmons, Colorado State University and Rebecca Ray, Boston University
More than one-third of all people in the...
The Martinican bèlè dance – a celebration of land, spirit and...
Camee Maddox-Wingfield, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
On May 22 each year, when the eastern Caribbean island of Martinique...
Archaeologists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to...
Matthew F. Napolitano, University of Oregon; Jessica Stone, University of Oregon; Robert DiNapoli, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Scott Fitzpatrick, University...
Earthquake forecast for Puerto Rico: Dozens more large aftershocks are likely
Richard Aster, Colorado State University
Multiple strong and damaging earthquakes in southern Puerto Rico starting around Dec. 28, 2019 have killed at least one person,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested...
Emma Marcucci, Smithsonian Institution
The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and...
