70-foot sperm whale beached off Florida’s Gulf Coast
VENICE, Florida (AP) — Authorities were working to assist a beached sperm whale that is stranded on a sandbar off Florida’s Gulf Coast this morning. The Venice Police Department said…
Divers spot ‘mysterious’ orange creature off remote island. It belongs to a new species
MEXICO CITY — While swimming off a remote Pacific Ocean archipelago in 2013, a diver spotted a “mysterious” and brightly colored fish. He quickly snapped several blurry photographs before it…
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Pearl B. Larsen Elementary School students told to stay home today due to sewage issue
CHRISTIANSTED – Pearl B. Larsen PreK8 School will receive virtual instruction on Wednesday, March 6th, due to a sewage issue impacting the campus, the Virgin Islands Department of Education said…
Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano erupts 13 times in past day, prompting airport delays
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center said Wednesday the Popocatépetl volcano, located just 50 miles from the country’s capital, has erupted 13 times in the past day and…
Trinidad government hires two firms to recover sunken oil barge
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) — Trinidad and Tobago has hired two remediation and salvage firms to help clean up an ongoing oil spill off Tobago and salvage the leaking barge,…
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Federal audit finds ‘a lot of work remains’ in Puerto Rico’s hurricane and earthquake recovery
SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico is trudging through reconstruction work after two devastating hurricanes and a string of strong earthquakes, and has spent less than 10% of more than $23 billion in…
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High air pollution levels in Thai capital spark order for city employees to work from home
BANGKOK (AP) — City employees in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, were ordered Thursday to work from home for two days, and those in the private sector were encouraged to do so…
Aruba issues alert after oil spill reached neighboring Bonaire
ORANJESTAD (Reuters) — Aruba issued an alert this week after an oil spill that was first spotted near Tobago spread to neighboring Bonaire, threatening its mangrove forests and national parks.…
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EPA Awards $500,000 to the USVI for Climate Pollution Reduction Planning
CHRISTIANSTED — The U.S Environmental Protection Agency showed its support for the U.S. Virgin Islands' efforts to combat climate change through a grant from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). EPA…
USVI Coral Innovation Hub Gets NOAA’s Research Center Designation
CHRISTIANSTED — The Nature Conservancy’s U.S. Virgin Islands Coral Innovation Hub, a laboratory dedicated to advancing coral restoration science in the Caribbean and across the planet, has been designated as…