Extreme Rain Risk: A new explainer links “cloudbursts” to sudden, localized flooding and notes that a warming climate can mean more extreme rainfall days—relevant for islands like Guadeloupe that have seen past gauge spikes. Regional Maritime Connectivity: In Guadeloupe, KARULINK partners (with EU INTERREG support) met to plan more sustainable passenger routes, better transport links, and greener mobility between Caribbean territories. Chlordecone Accountability: France’s National Assembly has unanimously backed a bill recognizing the State’s “share of responsibility” for chlordecone harm in Guadeloupe and Martinique, including health, environmental and economic damage, with an interministerial mission expected to assess cleanup and remediation. Sargassum Management: An OECS delegation visited Martinique and Guadeloupe to study sargassum control approaches and how to turn seaweed into value-added uses, aiming to reduce impacts on biodiversity, public health and local economies. Disaster Response Training: “Operation Caraïbes 26” continues in the Antilles, simulating a major cyclone to improve multinational humanitarian disaster relief coordination, including engineering and route-recovery roles. Legal Access for Businesses: OHADAC’s CARO Centre and the OECS will launch arbitration and ADR training in the Eastern Caribbean, including Guadeloupe, to strengthen access to economic justice. Local Wildlife/Climate Science Note: Cotton domestication research points to Mexico and compares genomes with wild cotton from the Caribbean, including Guadeloupe—useful for understanding regional biodiversity and land-use history.