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 ...

More than two dozen people are dead on the island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, after torrential rainfall over three days created severe flooding, downed trees and power ...

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 ...

One of two tropical features that AccuWeather meteorologists have been monitoring before mid-October will threaten to bring torrential rain and gusty winds to many of the islands in the northern ...

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 ...

April 15 - Days of torrential rainfall over northwest Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic have killed some 16 people, according to civil protection and local media reports on Wednesday. At least ...

It's not what they intended to do or expected to find. They're not even all that interested in birds. When Andre Naranjo and his colleagues began work on a new study published in the Botanical Journal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humans have inhabited Hispaniola for roughly six thousand years, during which time the island's rodent diversity dwindled from 11 species to just 1. By determining exactly when these species last ...