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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

TechCrunch

At the time, the operation was both smaller and under siege by Hurricane Dorian, which wiped out the team’s coral farm in the Bahamas — and then, of course, the pandemic arrived just in time to spoil the team’s 2020 plans along with everyone else’s. In the Accelerator over the Sea. .

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Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

TechCrunch

The company just demonstrated a two-way data link this week and announced its first network partners in Africa and the Bahamas — if everything goes well it may not be long before you can get a signal anywhere in the world. That in itself would have been a remarkable and useful capability to provide to governments and network providers.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 In 2019, millions of people around the world were affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. billion. . billion for U.S. 18 at 2 p.m.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent. projects that the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Saint Martin, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos, and Tuvalu will see at least 5% of their territories permanently inundated by the end of the century.

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