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Can ocean science bring Cuba and the United States together?

  • Written by Jorge Alberto Angulo-Valdes, Visiting Research Scholar, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida
imageU.S. Navy diver off the coast of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.MC2 Kori Melvin, U.S. Navy/Wikipedia

Cuba is the ecological crown jewel of the Caribbean. It harbors thousands of the region’s endemic species and about half of its coastal ecosystems. It is rare to find comparable ecosystems or such rich biodiversity anywhere in the Caribbean, and perhaps...

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