On Sunday, September 18, 2022, Hurricane Fiona made landfall in southwestern Puerto Rico, the same area most impacted by the 2020 earthquakes. Fiona has left a catastrophic amount of rain and damage across the archipelago. Most people are without power and many are without water. All this, just days before the five-year anniversary of Hurricane María today, on September 20th. Puerto Rico has barely recovered from the man-made disaster that followed that storm, the legacies of which are still physically and emotionally present. 

Mayagüez - Students from the Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez, known by its acronym CROEM, placed first in the competition of the "ROADS on Icy World" project carried out by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), where more than fifty (50) schools in the United States competed.

The prestigious congress of the International Society for Microbial Ecology, brought together Puerto Rican scientists representing the science they do in Puerto Rico and other labs in the diaspora.

Director of the Manatee Conservation Center of the Caribbean receives Humane Hero Award for his dedication to animal welfare

Dr. Antonio Mignucci, director of the Manatee Conservation Center of the Caribbean, received the Humane Hero Award from the American Humane organization in recognition of his three-decade career advocating for the humane treatment and welfare of animals.

Mignucci won the award as a finalist for the Wolfgang Kiessling International Prize for Species Conservation, which honors those who achieve significant positive changes in conservation practice, theory and research.

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