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MBL begins first test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production

Green Car Congress

A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has installed the first seaweed farm in Puerto Rico and US tropical waters. Additional farms are being tested in Florida and Belize to assess scalability. —Loretta Roberson.

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Affordable Winter Trips in the Caribbean

Baua Electric

Placencia, Belize On the southern coast of Belize , the laid-back beach town of Placencia , on the tip of a 16-mile-long peninsula, offers access to the Belize Barrier Reef offshore and a bohemian town center. A small guesthouse modeled in French colonial style, Alux House has studios designed to sleep two from $105 a night.

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Watery, Peaceful, Wild: The Call of the Mangroves

Baua Electric

St Jago pointed out fiddler crabs and mussels, and described differences of the local mangrove species — the red, white and black — and how they adapted to live and propagate where water meets land. The roots can arch up, pop up spikelike from the water or form stilts above and under the surface. Coral reefs get all the attention.

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