Puerto Rico’s January earthquakes came after many foreshocks and have been followed by numerous aftershocks. Scientists are studying these sequences to improve earthquake forecasting.
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It’s now officially the end of hurricane season, but the rebuilding of the Bahamas continues, slowed by the risks imposed by a history of colonialism and class division.
The economy of the Bahamas depends on Haitian labor. But some Bahamians see no place for migrant workers in their country’s long, slow recovery from Hurricane Dorian.
How even sleepy, rural Mid Wales was once an industrial heartland feeding the slave trade.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who freed Haiti from French colonial rule in 1804, is revered as a spirit in the Haitian religion. Now he’s become an icon of the uprising against President Jovanel Moïse.
Haiti has been paralyzed by general strikes and crippling fuel shortages for much of September. Its government is barely functioning. Here’s the history behind the crisis.
Big storms with lots of flooding, like hurricanes Dorian and Maria, actually restore the Caribbean’s delicate balance between native and nonnative fish species, new research finds.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Barbuda’s recovery is deliberately slow as neighbouring Antigua wants to develop the island’s tourism.
When it comes to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from transport, the future is already here on small islands.
Recognising the role of women in global child slavery is key to addressing it.
Even before the British billionaire invested US$1 billion in making the region ‘climate-smart,’ Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica were pioneering a renewable energy boom in the Caribbean.
Her novels and essays, especially Small Island and The Long Song, brought Britain’s slave-owning colonial history home to ordinary Britons, black and white alike.
Haiti is extremely vulnerable to climate change. It is also very poor. International donors have stepped in to help the country fund climate mitigation, but is the money going where it’s most needed?
A video art installation on view at the McIntosh Gallery until Jan. 12 explores the history of South Asian indentured labourers in the Caribbean.
A renamed Brooklyn street celebrates Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a Haitian slave turned president. For centuries his legacy was tarnished by allegations that Haiti’s revolution led to ‘white genocide.’
Author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Aug. 11, both scorned and mirrored his Caribbean origins. At the University of the West Indies, students must reconcile this conflicted titan’s literary legacy.
Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
The Toronto Caribbean Carnival reclaims alternative ideals of beauty while building community in Toronto.
After weeks of protest in Haiti, sparked by a sudden rise in fuel prices, at least seven are dead and the prime minister is out. Foreign creditors pushed for the price hike as an austerity measure.
Principais colaboradores
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University
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Assistant Professor, York University, Canada
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Posdoctoral Researcher in Local Energy Systems, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Director of LAPOP, Vanderbilt University
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Docteur en administration publique et chargé d'enseignement, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Senior lecturer, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University
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Professeur agrégé, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, University of the West of England
