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Government participation key for efforts to save coqui llanero

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The protection of the coqui llanero’s habitat by the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources will fall short if other government agencies don’t join the efforts to preserve natural areas where this and other endangered species live in Puerto Rico.

The Llanero's home is safe for now

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Around 1,567 acres of wetland in Toa Baja have been classified as the oficial habitat of the coqui llanero, part of a family of amphibians’ characteristic of Puerto Rico’s fauna that is critically endangered. The designation prohibits any kind of construction during the next five years, everywhere but in a 240 acres area.

Many Puerto Rican adults suffering heartburn

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About 76% of the adults in Puerto Rico suffer heartburn at least twice a week, especially after ingesting fatty and spicy food, citric juices, coffee and sodas. This is the result obtained from the study “Profile of Heartburn in Puerto Rico”, done between March and April of the current year, through telephone interviews and eight focus groups made up 64 people.

The Puerto Rican Silicon Valley

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While Puerto Rico is suffering the dismissal of hundreds of pharmaceutical companies employees, and there is anxiety about education, health and security, the eight municipalities that form the Centre-Oriental Technological Initiative (Inteco, in Spanish) re-assured yesterday that the union of wills and the adoption of an integral vision with a regional focus is the recipe that will take the Island out of uncertainty. Inteco is designed after the successful consortiums of Silicon Valley, North Carolina and Austin, Texas, among others.

"I can recycle"

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The 4th grade students of the Jobos Community School in Morovis (central Puerto Rico) are making calendars out of recycled materials to learn and create awareness about recycling.

Diminute architects

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Marine phytoplankton –besides being the start of the ocean’s food chain- releases into the atmosphere the organic compounds isoprene and dimethyl sulfides (DMS). These volatile compounds are oxidized when they get to the atmosphere, producing particles that give way to the production of clouds. The clouds are formed from a particle that serves as a nucleus where the water droplets adhere.

Taino heritage in danger

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The stones that display painting by the Taino indians that once lived in Tibes, Ponce and in Caguana, Utuado, show numerous fungus stains and show signs of erosion, probably caused by constant exposure to rain and other climate inclemencies.

A thread that can kill

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A fishing thread can stay in our environment for almost 600 years, and could be responsible for ending the life of many marine species, and even humans, especially divers and sailors. To reduce the impact caused by fishing threads to the marine ecosystem and those who enjoy it, the Fishing Thread Recovery and Recycling Program has been established.

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