Imagine that, as often happens in the archipelago, the power goes out in your home. But you're not worried, because you have other sources of energy—batteries, generators, or solar panels—that keep the essentials running. The same thing happens with a hybrid car; it uses different fuels to propel itself.

Las Piedras - In a quiet neighborhood of this municipality surrounded by colorful houses, is the Harlequin Butterfly Sanctuary, a sanctuary that captures the attention with the silent fluttering of butterflies fluttering among flowers. Crossing the entrance in recent days, one could observe the summer interns on their last day walking along the main corridor, surrounded by dozens of butterflies and plants climbing the edges of the space.

Early Sunday morning, Puerto Rico made space history once again when the New Shepard suborbital vehicle took off with six crew members on board, including a familiar face to Puerto Ricans: meteorologist Deborah Martorell.

It was 8:43 a.m. Puerto Rico time when the spacecraft ignited its engines in Van Horn, Texas, to begin Blue Origin's NS-34 mission. Martorell occupied seat number 6 in the capsule.

At 4:30 a.m., more than 60 volunteers went out to face the relentless protagonist of the Puerto Rican summer: the heat.

Convened by the organization Caribbean Community Regenerative Development (CRCD), they participated in the first community monitoring of extreme heat in the southwest of the island, with a clear objective: to collect scientific data to understand - and combat - the heat where it hits hardest.