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EUROPE/FRANCE - Sailing from France to the Antilles: fundraising campaign for the Salesian missionaries in Guadeloupe
Fides
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August 16, 2025
Saturday, 16 August 2025 ANS – Les Sables-d'Olonnes Paris (Agenzia Fides) – 150 years after the first crossing of the Atlantic by the Salesian missionaries of Don Bosco to reach the archipelago of Guadeloupe (now part of the French Antilles, ed.),...
Representatives From the Environmental Health Department and the National Public Health Laboratory attend the International Association of Food Protection Annual Meeting
Magnetic Media
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August 4, 2025
Deandrea Hamilton | Editor August 8, 2025 The dreaded chikungunya virus is making headlines again, with a major outbreak reported in southern China and travel-related cases on the rise in the United States. While there are no confirmed cases in...
Could dying reefs fuel ciguatera poisoning?
The Virgin Islands Daily News
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That seafood dinner in Martinique 20 years ago still haunts Caroline Montout-Joseph, a social worker who suffered months of agony after eating a mahi-mahi at a beachside restaurant in the resort town of Les Trois-Îlets. She was diagnosed with...
Parents who lost daughters at Camp Mystic: Their deaths were ‘100% preventable’
The Black Chronicle - Oklahoma
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August 21, 2025
(The Center Square) – Parents who lost their daughters from flood waters at Camp Mystic said their deaths were “100% preventable” and asked the legislature to implement mandatory safety protocols for camps statewide. Camp Mystic, an elite Hill...
Keeping Our Cool When Talking Climate
The Post-Journal - New York
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Ignorance, like history, repeats itself when people refuse to learn from it. One lesson we should have learned is that science and ideology do not mix. We saw this during Biden’s disastrous COVID response, which gave the U.S. the worst COVID death...
Heavy rainfall: Does it signify worldwide climate change?
Marshall Independent - Minnesota
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Last weekend the Marshall area experienced a deluge, a large amount of rain in a short time span. About 8 inches of rain fell late on Friday night. I slept right through it, didn’t even realize we had so much until I checked my rain gauge and...
Ameen hopes entrepreneurs can utilise sargassum
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 21, 2025
Business Sean Douglas 4 Hrs Ago Sargassum drifts into Speyside Bay in June 2020. Photo courtesy Anjani Ganase MINISTER of Local Government Khadijah Ameen urged entrepreneurs to find ways to utilise sargassum seaweed – now inundating TT's shores –...
WHEN IN ROME
Jamaica Observer
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August 20, 2025
Leon Bailey of Jamaica celebrates scoring against Guadeloupe during the Concacaf Gold Cup Group C match at PayPal Park in San Jose, California, on Friday, June 20. Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts says he’s optimistic...
How to island-hop the Caribbean by ferry
Lonely Planet
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For most travelers out there, you're probably treating the Caribbean the way you think you're supposed to: fly in, park yourself on one island, fly out. Fragmented airlift and maddening routes, like flying back through Miami or San Juan to reach...
A break down of Hurricane Erin, which is set to bring impacts to U.S. coastline
WABI - Maine
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August 19, 2025
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - After a relatively quiet start to the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season, with just four named storms (Andrea, Berry, Chantal, Dexter) since the season started on June 1st, the tropics have become quite active over the last week...
“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
Truthout
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August 19, 2025
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Public gatherings this week in Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana — featuring an especially distinctive guest — will...
Scientists race to save reefs amid bleaching crisis
The Virgin Islands Daily News
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For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly labored underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
Hurricane Erin likely to bring 'life-threatening surf and rip currents' to East Coast
News9 - Oklahoma
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Hurricane Erin is likely to bring "life-threatening surf and rip currents" across the U.S. East Coast this week, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said early Monday. Erin, the first Atlantic hurricane of 2025, restrengthened back into a...
Grand Maison management reply to employee demands
The Daily Herald
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A QR code shows how the public can donate online to help cover employees’ living expenses in addition to the donation box outside the store. (Robert Luckock photo) HOPE ESTATE--Following a press conference organised by union UNI.T 978 on Thursday...
Scientists Race to Save Caribbean Reefs Amid Bleaching Crisis
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
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August 7, 2025
For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly laboured underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
Hurricane Erin weakens slightly to category 4, undergoes ‘eyewall replacement’; what do we know so far
The Economic Times
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August 16, 2025
Hurricane Erin exploded and strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday (August 16, 2025) before weakening slightly to a Category 4 status. However, it remained a "formidable" storm while it underwent a process...
Erin strengthens into hurricane, the first of 2025 Atlantic season
CBS 4 Miami - Florida
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Erin strengthened into a hurricane Friday as the storm continued on a path over the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said. It is the first hurricane to develop in the Atlantic this year, and it was expected to continue gaining strength, potentially...
Mexican Caribbean Turns Seaweed Crisis into Fuel, Building Panels, and Carbon Credits
LatinAmerican Post
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August 13, 2025
On the beaches of Quintana Roo, the tide brings more than tourists. In 2025, record waves of sargassum threaten to choke the coastline’s turquoise brand—but engineers and scientists here are betting it can be turned into energy, products, and...
Giulio Ciccone Wins Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa 2025
RoadCycling.com
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Riders gathered at the start line of the 2025 Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa in San Sebastian on a chilly August morning where meteorologists had predicted overcast and rainy weather conditions until noon, where the sun would take control and...
WATCH: Texas lawmakers to reevaluate river authority over lack of flood warning system
The Center Square
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August 1, 2025
(The Center Square) – Texas state lawmakers plan to reevaluate the purpose of the Upper Guadeloupe River Authority (UGRA) after it was revealed that after nine years, no river monitoring system was implemented even though it had the funds to do...