Garifuna Settlement Day

What is Garifuna Settlement Day? On November 19th the celebrations commence to mark the arrival of the first Garifuna to Belize in 1832. The festival marks the arrival of the Garifuna people to Dangriga. A mixture of African music and religion with native Carib language and traditions blends into a vibrant, tasty, stimulating experience. Garifuna […]

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Excess symbionts increase bleaching

A paper published recently in Nature Climate Change might be of interest to list subscribers. It shows that corals with too many algal symbionts are more susceptible to bleaching, contrary to conventional wisdom that corals with more symbionts are protected from bleaching because they have “more symbionts to lose”. It suggests that corals have to […]

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