Tag: Puerto Rico
3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote...
Asa Oxner Myers, University of South Florida
I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico.
We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of...
I’m a librarian in Puerto Rico, and this is my Hurricane...
Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico - Humacao
I’ve always been fascinated by storms, particularly Puerto Rico’s own history of them. I think it’s...
Why Puerto Rico ‘doesn’t count’ to the US government
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, destroying homes, crops and communications. Many weeks later, power...
Scientists join forces to save Puerto Rico’s ‘Monkey Island’
Alexandra Rosati, University of Michigan
“00O made it!” There was some news to celebrate on Sept. 28 in the email chain of scientists who work...
On Eid 2017, a peek into the lives of Puerto Rican...
Ken Chitwood, University of Florida
For Juan, Ramadan is a balancing act. On the one hand is his religious faith and practice. On the other...
In Puerto Rico, environmental injustice and racism inflame protests over coal...
Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island
For scholars like me who study environmental justice, it has been encouraging to see residents in Flint, Michigan and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
