Archaeologists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to settle the Caribbean islands
Did people settle these islands by traveling north from South America, or in the other direction? Reanalyzing data from artifacts discovered decades ago provides a definitive answer.
Sept. 29, 2020 • ~10 min
Tags: archaeology caribbean cuba radiocarbon-dating jamaica islands human-migration trinidad human-settlements artifacts human-settlement
Coral sex: how reproducing species in the lab could be key to restoring reefs in the wild
Sexual reproduction helps keep coral colonies diverse and resilient. Now, scientists are doing it in a lab to restock flagging reefs.
Aug. 18, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: coral-reefs caribbean marine-ecosystems corals sexual-reproduction reef-restoration threatened-habitats
Coronavirus: a warning to Latin America and the Caribbean to dramatically increase COVID-19 testing
A group of population experts have called on governments in Latin American and the Caribbean to urgently ramp up testing for COVID-19 before it's too late.
April 8, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: covid-19 coronavirus testing healthcare latin-america demography coronavirus-testing caribbean
Skulls rewrite pre-Columbus history of people in the Caribbean
New research with skulls upends ideas about who arrived in the Caribbean when. "We're going to have to reinterpret everything we thought we knew."
Jan. 14, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: history migration indigenous-people caribbean featured science-and-technology society-and-culture skulls
How the first people got to the Caribbean 5,800 years ago
Research finds that the first Caribbean islanders came straight from South America to the northern Caribbean, initially settling Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
Jan. 7, 2020 • ~3 min
Tags: archaeology migration caribbean society-and-culture islands
Pesticide poisoned French paradise islands in Caribbean
France has a pollution crisis in the Caribbean caused by toxic chlordecone sprayed on banana crops.
Oct. 24, 2019 • ~7 min
Tags: prostate-cancer environment pollution agriculture france caribbean guadeloupe martinique
Pilot program lowers blood pressure of migrant workers
A pilot program to address hypertension shows promise in bateyes, rural sugarcane settlements in the Dominican Republic.
March 19, 2019 • ~3 min
Tags: poverty blood-pressure caribbean health-and-medicine
New cave creature is like a ‘swimming centipede’
Scientific cave divers have discovered at least one new species: another eyeless and colorless remipede.
Jan. 28, 2019 • ~5 min
Tags: new-species oceans caribbean science-and-technology caves
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