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October 5, 2023

Cabinet News: standards for education accreditation, more firefighters and regulation of carbon credits

In the area of fire and emergency safety, the Cabinet gave its approval for the integration of emergency medical response and emergency search and rescue in [...]
October 5, 2023

Belize joins growing list of countries committed to the Kigali Amendment

The Kigali Amendment has been an instrumental global effort to mitigate the potential environmental impacts of HFCs, a group of potent greenhouse gases. Countries worldwide have [...]
September 23, 2023

Time is Running Out: World leaders slam major polluters, China and USA absent at UN climate summit

Countries, particularly those most vulnerable to climate change, took advantage of the opportunity to call for immediate and decisive action. Among the 34 nations invited by [...]
September 11, 2023

An antibiotic for the reef: how Belize’s Barrier Reef is being treated against the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (Part two of two)

By Aaron Humes: To combat SCTLD, an affliction that threatens to turn the second largest barrier reef in the Atlantic Ocean and international attraction into skin [...]
July 29, 2023

Scientists revived worm after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost

According to Teymuras Kurzchalia, professor emeritus at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and also a scientist involved in the [...]
July 20, 2023

Cooma Cairn ranger outpost in Mountain Pine Ridge inaugurated

In the last 14 months, FCD has sent rangers to the area in support of the Forest Department to monitor activities including forest fire incidents, infestation [...]
July 15, 2023

International News: America experiences effects of extreme heat this summer

Professor in the Earth and planetary sciences department at Johns Hopkins University, Ben Zaitchik, stated, “All of this is entirely consistent with what greenhouse gas warming [...]
June 30, 2023

Ministry of Agriculture observes International Day of Cooperatives 2023 with workshop, mini expo in Cayo

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: The Ministry of Agriculture’s Department of Co-operatives is holding a workshop and a mini expo to celebrate International Day of Cooperatives 2023.