“If the island sinks, I will sink with it,” Delfino Davies says, his smile not fading for a second. There is silence, except for the swish of his broom across the floor of the small museum he runs documenting the life of his community in Panama, the Guna. “Before, you could hear children shouting… music […]
An aerial view of Eleuthera, an up-and-coming Caribbean island. getty Eleuthera isn’t the Caribbean you think you know—it’s better. This 110-mile-long jewel in the Out Islands of the Bahamas is known for its pink-sand beaches, dramatic cliffs and a laid-back vibe that’s worlds away from the bright lights of Nassau. This is the kind of […]
“I follow Latin traces from Icelandic manuscripts, but the Latin written material in Iceland has been forgotten. Previous research has focused mostly on texts in Old Norse in Icelandic manuscripts,” said Ph.D. research fellow Tom Lorenz. Credit: Tom Lorenz Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced […]
Lindy McDonough started her brand, Lindquist (the full version of her Swedish middle name), with a rule about glue. It had to be high quality, holding together the layers of her unique bags, but also free of VOC—a toxic compound used by most leather bag brands—and all other toxins. The rule was a non-starter because […]
Young capybara with hindlimb paralysis, photographed a few days before dying from rabies encephalitis on Anchieta Island near the coast of São Paulo. Credit: Fundação Florestal Three capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) died from rabies on Anchieta Island in the municipality of Ubatuba, São Paulo state, Brazil, between December 2019 and January 2020. One was found dead, […]
France’s Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte has been struck by the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century. At least two people were reportedly killed when Cyclone Chido made landfall on Saturday, causing wind gusts of more than 225km/h (140mph), and it is feared more may have died. French President Emmanuel Macron […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano […]
Ships float in Aasiaat’s harbor. Vaido Otsar via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 4.0 For the past four summers, a research team from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has loaded into a small plane and flown to the town of Aasiaat, on an island of the same name off the western coast of Greenland. The researchers […]
A new “Love Island” spinoff could be on the way from ITV America and Peacock. During a discussion at Content London on Tuesday, ITV America CEO David George — who was instrumental in the U.S. sale of the hit U.K. reality dating format to CBS in 2018 — teased that he is currently in talks […]
Getty Images Diego Garcia hosts a joint UK-US military base Migrants stranded for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have been brought to the UK. The Sri Lankan Tamils are permitted to remain in the country for six months, with financial support from the Foreign Office, according to […]
