Wishing You All the Best for 2014

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Coral Bleeching Threat to Caribbean

Scientists from NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch Program say conditions are favorable for significant coral bleaching and infectious coral disease outbreaks in the Caribbean, especially in the Lesser Antilles. The forecast is based on the July NOAA Coral Reef Watch outlook, which expects continued high water temperatures through October 2009.
Scientists are concerned that bleaching may reach the same levels or exceed those recorded in 2005, the worst coral bleaching and disease year in Caribbean history. In parts of the eastern Caribbean, as much as 90 percent of corals bleached and over half of those died during that event." 

West Coast Trek

The Tropics are a State of Mind.
Click HERE to watch a video of my recent trip to the Grand Canyon and British Columbia.

On the Road Again

Just finished reading Susan Hitchcock's "Blown Away" - a well-written book detailing her family's trek from Virginia to the southern Caribbean...

Off on Wednesday for a land-based trek from Mt. Pleasant to British Columbia via Texas, Arizona, Utah and Oregon ...

San Juan Star Reborn

Former employees of The San Juan Star, a now-defunct Pulitzer Prize-winning English-only daily newspaper, have formed a cooperative to publish a new English-language daily for the island nation.

Rafael Matos, listed as director of the project, says the Puerto Rico Daily Sun will be available starting Wednesday, Oct. 22, by subscription and at newsstands across the island.

Matos said that a portion of the 120 staffers who worked at The San Juan Star are involved in the project.

Puerto Rico has three major Spanish-language newspapers and a weekly English language business newspaper.

Earthquake jolts U.S. Caribbean Territories

A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages.

The magnitude 6.1 quake reportedly was the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in 20 years and struck on the 90th anniversary of a 7.3 quake that killed 118 people in the western half of Puerto Rico in 1918.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck was centered about 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. Disaster officials in the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico said there were no reports of significant damage or injuries.

- Wire reports