A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2020
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Google's parent company is set to launch balloons into the Caribbean skies in an attempt to restore telephone networks in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 8, 2017
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(AP) -- Deep amid the dense greenery of a rain forest, down an unmarked road, behind a barbed wire fence in a low-slung compound monitored by security cameras, government scientists are nursing a special patient back to ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 25, 2011
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Puerto Ricans living in Florida, the largest swing state in the country, are mostly supportive of undocumented immigrants, a political attitude that might have broader social and political implications than political candidates ...
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2022
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Weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, floodwaters have mostly receded in the hard-hit town of Loíza, but mud, debris and collapsed roofs remain. Power has been restored in some areas but is still unstable.
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2022
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A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near southern Puerto Rico on Saturday, briefly knocking out power and forcing the relocation of at least 50 families on an island where some people still remain in shelters from previous ...
Environment
May 2, 2020
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As part of a wide-ranging conservation effort, a group of Oakland University researchers has been mapping the DNA of Amazon parrot species from the Caribbean.
Ecology
Jun 17, 2021
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Living conditions in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico are growing worse by the day, with tired, bewildered people lining up to buy scarce fuel and food Sunday amid a blackout and little to no telephone service.
Environment
Sep 25, 2017
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As the nation's Latino population has grown from 35 million in 2000 to more than 62 million, so have Latinos' overall levels of education, home ownership and economic security. But these gains also mask marked differences ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2022
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Four months after Hurricane María blasted Puerto Rico with 250 km/hour winds, the Caribbean island remains in crisis—a humanitarian disaster that a new paper published in open-access journal Frontiers in Communications ...
Environment
Jan 29, 2018
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