By Staff, SPX via Terra Daily | Photos and video, Univ. Southampton and NOC | Haiti Chery. The world’s deepest undersea volcanic vent is the Cayman Trough, about 3 miles below the Cayman islands in the Caribbean. Springs, probably hotter than 450°C, shoot mineral-laden water more than 0.6 mile up into the sea. Throngs of shrimps and sea anemones live around the vents.
Continue reading →By Roger Cohn and Doug Peacock, Yale Environment 360. “…if the bear can make it, I always assume maybe we’ve got a shot, too. The bear is equally important to me because it’s the one animal out there that can kill and eat you about any time it chooses to, even though it seldom does. And it just stands as an instant lesson in humility.” – Doug Peacock
Continue reading →By Staff Writers, SPX via Terra Daily. A team of geologists found lavas on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola – home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic – that suggest the area is underlain by rocks almost a billion years older than previously believed.
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