... lymphatic filariasis, which can cause elephantiasis.
In addition to lymphatic filariasis, the Caribbean region also has high rates of schistosomiasis and of the intestinal worm hookworm. These ...
The Caribbean monk seal has gone extinct.
... ,and they generate their own heat. However, to think that a black spruce in Canada and a Caribbean pine in Puerto Rico have the same average leaf temperature is quite astonishing, particularly since ...
Every year a Vermont researcher follows another of the state's residents to the Caribbean: the Bicknell thrush, a small migratory bird.
A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year, but the event will probably not be severe. NOAA issued the first-ever ...
The invasion of predatory lionfish in the Caribbean region poses yet another major threat there to coral reef ecosystems - a new study has found that within a short period after the entry of lionfish ...
A life spent swimming in the Caribbean sounds ideal. But good luck convincing the resident fish. Already confronted by overfishing, coral bleaching, and increasing amounts of sediment, nitrates, and ...
... impact for a seriously imperiled species.
The results of this study confirm the Central American Caribbean as the world's fourth largest nesting zone for the leatherback turtle after the Guayanas, ...
The Caribbean — the second-most affected region in the world by HIV/AIDS — is launching a US$7.73 million plan against the virus.
... Puerto Rico (AP) -- A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean's warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on ...
Hurricane Gustav barrelled toward landfall Tuesday in Haiti, and also was likely to strike Jamaica and Cuba, less than two weeks after the Caribbean was battered by Tropical Storm Fay.
A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean's warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically ...
Scientists are set to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes and find out what lives in a 'lost world' five kilometres beneath the Caribbean.
The growth in the number of tourists jetting off from UK airports to Caribbean holiday resorts is likely to be effected by policies to tackle climate change, according to an Oxford University ...
... that in the coming years, schistosomiasis transmission could be eliminated in the Caribbean, and that transmission of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis could be eliminated in Latin America and ...
