From 2012 to 2018, there was a nearly 38 percent reduction in the number of farms and an over 16 percent decrease in the amount of land used for farming. ...
Puerto Rico’s public energy utility has officially been privatised for at least the next 10 years. Politicians who allowed the privatisation claimed it would bring about the restoration of the neglected and battered electrical grid. But has it happened? ...
Puerto Rico's mangrove forests have been decimated by environmental destruction and urban expansion along the coast, leaving the archipelago susceptible to climate change's worst effects. Facing no support to protect mangroves, nonprofits and environmentalists are slowly trying to reforest decimated ...
Dedicated environmentalists have fought to protect the world's natural resources for decades and it's no different in Puerto Rico. But many say that a pervasive sense of ecological anxiety, or eco-anxiety, alongside a love for the environment has pushed them ...
Puerto Rico is supposed to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2050, but the archipelago is miles away from that goal. However, solar energy is being pushed by private citizens, community organizations like Casa Pueblo and the Hydroelectric Mountain ...
Puerto Ricans will likely spend this Christmas without their time-honored tradition of eating plantains with dinner, after Hurricane Fiona destroyed 80 percent of the island’s plantain and banana crops in September. ...