NASSAU, Bahamas - Prime Minister Philip Davis has told an international climate change conference that for the Bahamas, climate change is not an abstract concept, nor is it distant risk to be modeled for a future generation.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A University of the West Indies (UWI) scientist has named as Barbados,  three new species of microorganisms in decomposing sargassum that he has since described as a “cell factory” with the potential to produce more than 20 novel antibiotics.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean governments are to cooperate under a new initiative to retrofit existing homes against increasingly severe hurricanes, flooding and other climate hazards.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - President Irfaan Ali has welcomed the decision by the United Nations to become a member of the Global Biodiversity Alliance (GBA) saying that it sends a “clear and unmistakable message”, that the protection of biodiversity is now central to the international agenda.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration on Wednesday reaffirmed what it describes as its commitment to “increasing preparedness and leading the Western Hemisphere” in response to hurricanes and other natural disasters in the Caribbean and other places. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is calling on Jamaicans to remain highly cautious following reports that non-native monkeys have been sighted and captured in the southern parish of St Elizabeth.

BRASILIA, Brazil – The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Tuesday said that record-breaking heat, persistent drought, extreme rainfall and devastating tropical cyclones had impacted communities and economies throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2025.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Tuesday said it is advancing Grenada’s geothermal energy programme launching an expanded drilling campaign at Mount St. Catherine, north of here to determine the viability of commercial power generation.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says it intends to finalise its carbon markets framework this year, positioning the country to access new revenue streams and attract greater investment in clean technology.

Kingston, Jamaica -  The GraceKennedy Foundation has announced that its 36th Annual Public Lecture, scheduled for Friday, June 5, 2026  in observance of World Environment Day, will focus on the transformative work of the Kingston Harbour Cleanup Project (KHCP). 

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Small business enterprises in the Eastern Caribbean are being given the opportunity to benefit from a community-driven action project on plastic pollution that has been launched under the “Closing the Caribbean Plastic Tap” initiative.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – A German-led international team of marine scientists has ended a visit to the Sargasso Sea continuing the long-term research on one of the ocean’s most remarkable and still partly unresolved mysteries, the early life stages of the European eel.