12 Emerging Global Trends That Bring Hope for 2018
If you’ve been following this year’s outlook stories, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that they don’t paint a pretty picture, particularly for our environment.
Millions of trees in Puerto Rico damaged after Hurricane Maria, Berkeley Lab finds
An estimated 23 to 31 million trees were severely damaged in Puerto Rican forests after Hurricane Maria, according to a study published by the Lawrence
It takes a village (and a pickaxe)
In this month’s edition of Saving Land (link is external), you can read about how land trusts responded to the series of natural disasters that
Para la Naturaleza takes its wood rescue efforts throughout the island
Fallen trees are now part of the urban and rural landscapes demolished by hurricanes Irma and María in Puerto Rico. The environmental organization Para la
Hurricane Maria stripped Puerto Rico’s forests bare. Now conservationists and scientists are working to replenish them
When Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico last September, the physical destruction was not limited to houses, buildings, the electricity grid and other infrastructure. The
A strategic alliance was established to monitor Aedes aegypti mosquito populations
San Juan – The Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust (FCTIPR in its Spanish acronym), in alliance with Para La Naturaleza, will put into
‘One in a million’ yellow cardinal spotted in Alabama
An extremely rare cardinal has birders and biologists flocking to Shelby County, Alabama this week, as images of a yellow cardinal have circulated around social
College students plant and lift their voices of hope up to the mountains
While the greater part of Puerto Rico’s communities are still coping with no power and water services, college students from the University of Puerto Rico
Half of Puerto Rico’s housing was built illegally.
Gladys Peña built a home the way many thousands of people in Puerto Rico, maybe most, did for decades: in makeshift fashion. Every week for
Hurricane Maria killed 30 pct. of trees in some parts of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Feb 5 (efe-epa).- Hurricane Maria killed 30 percent of the trees in some parts of Puerto Rico, according to the preliminary results of
Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, P.R. — They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness, that it translates to “eternal
Flamencos sighting: a sign that our wetlands are recovering?
Since they were kids, Jean Carlos Díaz and Emmanuel Penzol have loved birds and nature. Currently, they study Wildlife Management at the University of Puerto