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Scientists race to save reefs amid bleaching crisis
The Virgin Islands Daily News
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For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly labored underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
CHTA Delighted To Welcome 48 Hotels In The U.s. Virgin Islands As Members
Virgin Islands This Week
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July 30, 2025
Milestone highlights the growing value of CHTA membership across the region The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), the Caribbean’s leading voice representing the interests of national hotel and tourism associations for more than 60...
US Virgin Islands students complete summer research program on cardiovascular health
Pasquines
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July 28, 2025
On June 3, the United States Virgin Islands Department of Health, in partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, hosted the second annual Cardiovascular Research Empowerment Workforce (CREW) Research Symposium on St....
Scientists Race to Save Caribbean Reefs Amid Bleaching Crisis
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
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August 7, 2025
For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly laboured underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
As RI heats up, cities and towns can help keep residents safe
Newport Daily News - Rhode Island
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Cooling centers are seen as a key practice Days and nights in the summer are getting hotter Local zoning rules can increase neighborhood resiliency PROVIDENCE – As summers in Rhode Island get hotter, the need for municipalities to create safe...
Hurricane Erin's life-threatening path revealed in latest spaghetti models as officials order evacuations
Daily Mail
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August 18, 2025
A State of Emergency has been declared in parts of North Carolina as Hurricane Erin approaches, bringing life-threatening surf and dangerous rip currents. Officials in Dare County, home to more than 38,000 residents, ordered mandatory evacuations...
PICRC celebrates its Outreach Director’s completion of Prestigious ELDProgram
Island Times
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August 19, 2025
The Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) is proud to announce that its Outreach Director, Ms. Adeeshia Imaderang Tellei—widely known as Imade—has successfully completed the Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) as a member of...
Guam residents join other territories in petition opposing deep seabed mining in American Samoa
Pacific Daily News
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Guam residents have joined over 2,000 other people in a petition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opposing the imposition of deep seabed mining in the waters of American Samoa. Right to Democracy, which works to advance democracy, equity,...
UVI Brings Mangrove Science to St. Croix Classrooms Through New Educator Workshop
The Virgin Island Consortium
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Last updated at 5:37 p.m. on Thursday, August 7, 2025. The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), in partnership with the GRROE USVI Mangroves team, hosted its first Mangroves in the Classroom (MIC) Educator Workshop on July 28 at the Albert A....
Esi Edugyan’s novel ‘Washington Black’ makes the leap from book to screen
Gulf Today
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August 19, 2025
“Washington Black” just seemed destined for a screen adaptation. The 2018 novel by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan caught actor Sterling K. Brown’s eye. As he put the wheels in motion, things just started to line up in a most un-Hollywood fashion — so...
FM Championship Returns to New England Next Week
WLNE - Rhode Island
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August 18, 2025
Labor Day weekend is just around the corner, and the world’s best golfers are gearing up to spend it in the Greater Boston area. The second edition of the FM Championship will take place at TPC Boston from Aug. 28-31 and promises a thrilling...
Extraordinary Erin expands its reach over the northwest Atlantic
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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August 18, 2025
On its third day since rocketing to Category 5 strength, Hurricane Erin continued to churn across the northwest Atlantic on Monday, maintaining Cat 4 strength while building an unusually expansive wind field. Erin’s center remains firmly on track...
Hurricane weakens as it nears Caribbean
The Mining Journal - Michigan
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Jamie Rhome, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, gives an update on what was then Tropical Storm Erin at the National Hurricane Center on Aug. 14 in Miami. (AP photo) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3...
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
Just Security
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August 18, 2025
The Timeline below examines decades-long failures by federal law enforcement and oversight agencies—including the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Department of the Treasury—in the handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes: child sexual abuse...
David Zumwalt: Rural America’s Wireless Revolution
Broadband Breakfast
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August 19, 2025
Broadband is essential to living a safe, prosperous and connected life. Yet we often take it for granted. We overlook its complex infrastructure and the costly challenges of deploying and maintaining it. This is especially true in rural America,...
Hurricane Erin weakens to a Category 3 as forecasters wait
The Lewistown Sentinel - Pennsylvania
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane Sunday as its outer bands continued to lash the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with heavy rains and tropical-storm force winds. While Erin’s maximum winds diminished, the...
Homes evacuated as Hurricane Erin to create dangerous waves along US coast
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Stronger, bigger Hurricane Erin is forecast to create dangerous surf along US coast
Canada's National Observer
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August 18, 2025
A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the US East Coast this week. It reintensified to a Category 4 storm with 130 mph (215 kph) maximum sustained winds...
Hurricane Erin forecast to create dangerous surf along East Coast this week
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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MIAMI — A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week. It reintensified to a Category 4 storm with 130 mph maximum sustained winds...
Hurricane Erin intensifies to Category 4, churning up dangerous surf along U.S. coast
KABB - Texas
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MIAMI (AP) — A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week. It reintensified to a Category 4 storm with 130 mph maximum sustained...