The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest diversity of rodents in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for thousands of years. Today, only one rodent species remains within ...

In 2008, residents of Hispaniola experienced one of their worst hurricane seasons in recent memory. Hispaniola, the Caribbean island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is located directly ...

Tropical Storm Franklin made landfall in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday morning and will emerge along the northern coast of Hispaniola in the afternoon. AccuWeather meteorologists are concerned ...

For its size, the island of Hispaniola—where Christopher Columbus landed in1492—can match its violent past and present with just about any place, including Cuba, the island next door. One end of the ...

Species translocation—capturing animals in one place and releasing them in another—is a widely used conservation method for establishing or reestablishing populations of threatened species. However, ...

There are about 19.7 million people on the island of Hispaniola that is divided into the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The Dominican Republic takes up about two-thirds of the land space that is more ...

Christopher Columbus was delighted with his discovery, and wrote of the mountainous green Caribbean island he called La Isla Española: “So lovable, so tractable, so peaceable are these people. They ...

Hispaniola once had among the highest diversity of rodents in the Caribbean. Today, only one rodent species remains, and its prospects for survival are uncertain. New carbon dates place the blame ...