Environment

More than 20 international scientists found that droughts like the one affecting the island will become more frequent unless global warming is curbed.

What began as an emergency response after Hurricane María turned into years of delays, mounting costs and questions about whether the rebuilt line can withstand future storms.

The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources discovered the fishing of this animal by chance and banned it, but did not carry out the investigations recommended by experts on this important marine species, despite having federal funds available to do so.

The illegal fishing of this marine animal, considered a delicacy in China but crucial for maintaining the seabed’s ecological balance, has proliferated along the Venezuelan Caribbean coast with the approval of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

There are barely any Department of Natural and Environmental Resources rangers, there is a shortage of anchor buoys, corals are destroyed, illegal developments proliferate, and there is no environmental impact control.

The US Army Corps of Engineers clings to the canalization alternative because it is the least expensive way to address the problem.

The tour through the mountains offers Puerto Rico’s most emblematic natural views, while reflecting government abandonment, the slow pace of post-Hurricane María reconstruction, and the urgency of funds for a new management plan.

For decades, an environmental crime has been taking place in the Bahía Jobos Reserve in Salinas before the eyes of many and implicates multiple branches of the government of Puerto Rico and the federal government that have been consistently negligent in carrying out their duties, an investigation by the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in […]

The farmer looks down from the top of the slope. The dark-skinned and bulky man is dressed in gray overalls and a wide-brimmed hat. This is part of the gear used in pineapple crops that is meant to protect him when applying pesticides and other hazardous products. At the foot of the slope, lies Isadora […]

At the request of carbon-powered AES Puerto Rico and Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG), the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Andrew Wheeler, authorized states and territories to suspend groundwater monitoring carried out in landfills and ash ponds, and ordered that the permitted levels of lead, cobalt, lithium and molybdenum be raised […]

Erasmo Cruz-Vega is puzzled. “Three weeks ago, the neighbor from up there died of lung cancer and another one who lived nearby died of the same cause last year,” he said whispering. “He wasn’t 60 years old.” While looking at his hands and counted each one with his fingers, he added that on Street D, […]