extreme heat

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

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 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.