climate change

In Puerto Rico, where extreme heat poses a growing health risk, the government still lacks an effective system to track heat-related deaths.

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

From Hurricane Melissa's deadly floods in October 2025 to recurring droughts in the north, Haiti has been plagued by extreme events that have pushed farmers to build an irrigation network amid government inaction.

Waldemar Quiles says his agency has no funds for the committee, which has not met once in nine months. He admits he does not know how vacancies will be filled or who in the governor’s office is responsible for the process.

Three vacant seats and months without meetings have stalled the panel, despite its legal duty to oversee the implementation of the Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Plan.

Caribbean governments are struggling to track and manage ciguatera fish poisoning. As oceans warm and coral reefs degrade in the region, some scientists fear the illness will become more common.

Despite record heat in Puerto Rico as of August 2023, public schools remain unprepared for increasingly frequent hot days. School communities also grapple with ongoing power outages.

As record coral bleaching swept across the Caribbean over the past two years, scientists raced to save reefs with tools ranging from multivitamins and artificial intelligence to underwater speakers. But their efforts, they warn, remain underfunded — and increasingly overwhelmed by the scale of the coral crisis.

A historic coral bleaching event has swept across the Caribbean over the past two years, threatening the ecosystems that feed, protect, and sustain life across the region. This investigation, reported from six countries and territories, reveals the scale of the damage —and the human costs mounting beneath the surface.

As one of the regions most affected by the global climate crisis, local scientists are struggling with canceled research grants and funding cuts from federal agencies.

In the absence of long-term mitigation and adaptation projects from the government, many roads along Puerto Rico's coastal strip could be vulnerable to rising sea levels and increased flooding.

Some of this money could have been used to implement initiatives from the Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience Plan, which needs to be resubmitted to the Legislature for approval.

As temperatures and heat indexes in Puerto Rico continue to break records, the homeless population struggles to survive on the streets with no government action plan in place.

Adapting to climate change and dealing with its consequences is urgent, but communities affected by coastal erosion in Panama, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, and Mexico watch in distress as these efforts fall short. Instead, a lack of information, government inaction, and short-term decisions that may worsen the outlook are the constant.

Although the government of Puerto Rico is betting on building two breakwaters to contain the sea's progression into this municipality, residents question the projects, fearing they replicate a system that previously displaced an entire community.

Athletes recount the measures adopted to train under extreme temperatures.