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Environment
PIOJ, Panos pushing community climate change project
NOTING what it describes as an “alarming indifference” among Jamaicans to the effects of climate change, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is partnering with PANOS Caribbean's Voices for Climate Change Education Initiative to raise awareness of adaptive strategies in... Read More
Buy them back!
INTERNATIONALLY, mangroves are valued anywhere between US$200,000 and US$900,000 per hectare per year, but Jamaica is having a hard time capitalising on the income, largely because it has sold much of the resource to private landholders.... Read More
Region urged to brace for drought, recurrent dry spells
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) says chances of drought and recurrent dry spells during the peak of the dry season have increased as the weak El Niño conditions are forecast to persist until the end of...... Read More
CRFM initiates SARGASSUM study
BELIZE CITY, Belize — The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) has announced that it has launched a regional fact-finding study to document the record-breaking influx of Sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean Sea in 2018, and the impacts the phenomenon has been having on...... Read More
Fogging insecticide kills 90% of mosquitoes — MOH
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate editor — Features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, January, 30 2019
Environment must go hand in hand
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to work “in harmony with the world” to cut carbon emissions, aiming to quell international concerns that his country, the main custodian of the oxygen-rich Amazon, could put economic interests over... Read More
Timber industry hit by hurricane will take years to recover
TALLAHASSEE, United States (AP) — It could take a decade or more for Florida's timberlands devastated by Hurricane Michael to recover. Read More
3.4 million and counting
W ith two terms left in the 2018-2019 school year, members of the Wisynco Eco Club have already surpassed the target for the enitre year, collecting some 3.4 million plastic bottles for recycling as of December 14, the end of the Christmas... Read More
Photo: Pink salmon a threat to killer whales?
In this Januray 18, 2014, AP file photo, an endangered female orca leaps from the water while beaching in Puget Sound west of Seattle, Washiongton. For years, scientistshave identified dams, pollution and vessel noise as causes of the troubling decline of the Pacific Northwest's resident... Read More
Widespread retailer compliance with plastics, polystyrene ban
AS local retailers prepare to restock their inventories in compliance with the Government's ban on single-use plastic bags and straws, and polystyrene (styrofoam), several enterprises have begun in earnest to offer their customers alternatives including cardboard boxes, paper bags, and reusable... Read More
What a waste!
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate editor — Features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, January, 16 2019
Fifty -five million litres of water — enough to fill your bathtub 133,000 times — is pumped into the Rio Cobre from a single source every single day. Read More
KFTL Go Blue bags over 100,000 bottles in seven months
In the seven months since June 5 last year, the staff at Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) has prevented over 100,000 plastic bottles and more than 600lbs of cardboard from going to the dump. Read More
Giving up gas: China's Shenzhen switches to electric taxis
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — One of China's major cities has reached an environmental milestone: an almost entirely electric-powered taxi fleet. Read More
Dolphins in captivity not sustainable tourism
The following is a lightly-edited piece which first appeared on Petchary's Blog/Cries from Jamaica. Read More
Riverton to become green space — gov't
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate Editor — Features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, January, 2 2019
The fire-prone Riverton disposal site in Kingston is to become a green space for the benefit of surrounding communities, according to the enterprise team managing the proposed divestment of solid waste collection and disposal in the country. Read More
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