The Cabo Rojo Salt Flats are among the most affected, and their restoration will begin in March.

Despite the importance of wetlands for humans and other species, these ecosystems - historically and erroneously considered wastelands - face threats from climate change and from the citizenry itself, with actions such as drainage and landfilling, compromising their vital functions.

The program will open its application process aimed for projects in biotechnology,
medical technologies driven by Ai and genomics, among others.

The petition, led by the Center for American Progress, comes at a time when the island was excluded from incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles.

Washington D.C. - About 60 civil society organizations, led by the think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), have petitioned Joe Biden's administration to grant Puerto Rico and the other territories access to federal clean energy credits, including the purchase of electric vehicles.

Jorge Bauzá Ortega, scientific director of the San Juan Bay Estuary Program, is currently leading research on contaminants of emerging concern.

Oceanographer Jorge Bauzá Ortega's connection to the sea began at an early age. As a child, the scientific director of the San Juan Bay Estuary Program collected seashells and sponges, among other remains of marine species, and the sample grew so large that his mother created a designated space for him to preserve it.