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GCRMN issues “Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2024” 9Dec 2025

“9th December 2025, Wider Caribbean Region – Coral cover in the Caribbean has declined by 48% since 1980 while macroalgae cover has risen 85% in the same time, according to a major new report by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring … Continue reading

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Extreme Weather cont’d in BIM 20Nov2025

From Barbados Today, Just rain? We still ain’t ready yet posted Nov 20, 2025: This past weekend offered Barbados a harsh and necessary wake-up call. A few intense hours of rainfall – focused largely on one side of the island … Continue reading

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Warm-water coral reefs are crossing their thermal tipping point 15oct2025

From the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 issued at www.global-tipping-points.org, Oct 13, 2025: “The world has entered a new reality. Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°C. This puts humanity in the danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose catastrophic … Continue reading

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“Gar” and “Garfish” in Barbados 4Oct2025

My curiosity about these fish began with a question about “houndfish” My interest in the category of fish caught in Barbados that are commonly called “gar fish” or “garfish” arose from a fish I had photographed and posted on iNaturalist, … Continue reading

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Videos of healthy fringing reef at Vauxhall, Barbados 2015 to early 2023

In the early months of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025, I had the good fortune to spend a lot of time snorkelling on the fringing reef at Vauxhall, Barbados, camera in hand. Up until early … Continue reading

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URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO CONSERVE AND RESTORE SHALLOW-WATER CORAL REEFS 24Jun2025

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Boergesenia forbesii, a recent immigrant to Barbados? 26Mar2025

IN SHORT… To date, photos of a green alga from Barbados uploaded to iNaturalist that appear to be Boergesenia forbesii have commonly been identified as Valonia utricularis (some gaining Research Grade status), or a species of Ulva or Caulerpa. A … Continue reading

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Pelagic Sargassum blooms may be associated primarily with atmospheric phenomena 24Mar2025

So argue Julien Jouanno et al., in An extreme North Atlantic Oscillation event drove the pelagic Sargassum tipping point, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment published Feb 8, 2025. Abstract (Bolding inserted) The proliferation of pelagic Sargassum in the … Continue reading

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“No El Niño, no relief: January sets another heat record” 9Feb2025

So reads the headline for a Feb 7 post by Chris Hatch in the National Observer (Canada) Zero Carbon Newsletter. …despite conditions that should have cooled things down, Earth hit its hottest January in recorded history. We’ve been on a … Continue reading

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“Transplanting healthy reef ecosystems to damaged reefs can improve coral health” 2Jan2025

So reads the title for an article by by Bar-Ilan University in phys.org, Nov 26, 2024. It  offers some hopeful news going forward at the beginning of 2025 for Barbados  where there are both healthy and degraded reefs and a lot … Continue reading

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