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USA | Dec 11, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Reuters) NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean today (December 11) after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Andrew Holness-led Government is being urged to do more at the local level to help Jamaica’s coral reefs survive climate change. The call comes as the Arizona-based Allen Coral…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has reopened its Nuclear Medicine Division, which has been retrofitted with state-of-the-art single-photon emission computed tomography – SPECT-computed tomography (CT). This will…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Durrant Pate/Contributor A new study is supporting Jamaica’s drive to convert waste to energy, which is part of a proposed plan to privatise solid waste management services in the country….
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Jamaica Meteorological Service is today (June 7) advising that unforeseen ‘mechanical issues’ have led to the newly acquired Doppler radar system being inoperable days into the 2022 Hurricane Season.
Reading Time: 5 minutes A new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study published today (May 11) in the journal Science Advances about four decades of tropical cyclones reveals the surprising result that reducing…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recognising that science is the way of the future, the Government of Jamaica has indicated that improving science literacy among the Jamaican population will be a key focus over the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Government of Jamaica is transforming the institutional arrangements for the management of the domestic mining sector through the establishment of a Geoscience institute that will lead research and pilot the management and development of the country’s mineral wealth, excluding oil and gas.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Jamaica Meteorological Service is working to commission its new Doppler weather radar by the start of the 2022 North Atlantic Hurricane season. Evan Thompson, director of the Met Service,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In February, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest global report. Better known as the Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group II (AR6-WG2), it reveals…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Bodles Research Station in St Catherine is beefing up its research and milking system, as part of efforts to secure and promote milk production in the island by the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jamaica has beefed up its pest control management systems with the launch of a new Biological Control Laboratory at the Agriculture Ministry’s Bodles Research Station in St Catherine. The lab…