-
Archives
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- August 2025
- June 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- May 2023
- March 2023
- January 2023
- May 2021
- March 2021
- June 2020
- April 2020
- July 2019
- February 2019
-
Meta
Author Archives: admin
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
Posted in extreme weather
Comments Off on Extreme Weather cont’d in BIM 20Nov2025
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
Posted in Extreme Warming/Coral Bleaching, Reef restoration
Comments Off on Warm-water coral reefs are crossing their thermal tipping point 15oct2025
“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
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on “Gar” and “Garfish” in Barbados 4Oct2025
URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO CONSERVE AND RESTORE SHALLOW-WATER CORAL REEFS 24Jun2025
Posted in Extreme Warming/Coral Bleaching, Reef Health, Reef restoration, Vauxhall Reef
Comments Off on URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO CONSERVE AND RESTORE SHALLOW-WATER CORAL REEFS 24Jun2025
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
Posted in exotic species
Tagged exotic species
Comments Off on Boergesenia forbesii, a recent immigrant to Barbados? 26Mar2025
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
Posted in Sargassum weed
Comments Off on Pelagic Sargassum blooms may be associated primarily with atmospheric phenomena 24Mar2025
“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
Posted in Acroporoids, Extreme Warming/Coral Bleaching
Comments Off on “No El Niño, no relief: January sets another heat record” 9Feb2025