"It was an accumulation of many things that lead one to find oneself in that black hole where one falls." This is how Juan Ortiz described his battle against depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The thing is that you are slowly falling and you don't realize that you are there," he added.

El Caño Martín Peña, in San Juan, still maintains levels of coliforms above the standards of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a recent investigation by the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón identified three different types of these bacteria in said body of water ..

The coliforms Escherichia coli, Enterobacter ssp, and Salmonella were identified in the water samples taken from the pipe, a 3.27-mile-long channel that connects the San Juan Bay with the San José Lagoon.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico (Wednesday, July 28, 2021) - Organizations that protect the coasts, as well as turtles and other marine species, demanded that the government put into effect a cease and desist in the area of the construction of a swimming pool on Los Almendros beach, in Rincón, and protect the rest of the nesting areas and public domain assets in the maritime-terrestrial zone (ZMT) of Puerto Rico.

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Dr. Aida I. Rodríguez Roig, rector of the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) announces a new allocation of $ 4.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the extension of the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) project, which brings together professors and students from the UPR of Humacao and Cayey, in collaboration with colleagues affiliated with the Materials Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

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