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Study on the resilience of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid towers underway this hurricane season

Submitted on 13 September 2024 - 3:46pm

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José A. Delgado

The research, led by Puerto Rican professor Jorge González Cruz of the University at Albany, will last three years

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“It's time to break the taboo”: to measure the impact of climate change on the mental health of Puerto Ricans

Submitted on 13 September 2024 - 2:49pm

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Valeria María Torres Nieves

From heavy rains and hurricanes to prolonged droughts and extreme heat, the effects of climate change in Puerto Rico are becoming increasingly evident. For many, these alterations are of great concern, but there is still no study detailing their impact on the mental and emotional health of the island's population.

Faced with this reality, the organization Amigxs del M.A.R. launched “Enraizando ante la Crisis Climática,” a research project aimed at learning about the effects of environmental phenomena and government management on the thoughts, feelings and behavior of residents.

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Some 60 groups ask Biden administration to provide Puerto Rico with access to clean energy credits

Submitted on 19 January 2024 - 12:17pm

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José A. Delgado

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.

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"Caribbean Climate Resilience" game created to educate on the effects of climate change

Submitted on 19 January 2024 - 12:07pm

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Amanda Pérez Pintado

The tool is part of an effort led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Caribbean Climate Center

 

As part of an effort to educate about climate change, the USDA's Caribbean Climate Center developed the "Caribbean Climate Resilience" game, an interactive tool that shows the impact of climate on the region's agricultural industry.

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Response for students and STEM educators to the emergency of COVID-19

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Given the recent natural disasters and the public health emergency that we are facing, Ciencia Puerto Rico continues to be committed to the educators and students of Puerto Rico, who have seen their teaching and learning process interrupted, first by a sequence of earthquakes and now by the COVID-19 pandemic. This new crisis (the third in last three years) highlights how important it is to develop strategies and tools that ensure the continuity and resilience of the education system.

Lecciones en línea del kit Ciencia al Servicio

 

Lecciones en línea del kit Ciencia al Servicio

 
Gracias por la información. Ahora, presiona los enlaces abajo para descargar las lecciones y empezar a explorar el mundo de la ciencia y la tecnología.
 

Elemental o Taller I y II Montessori 

  • Libro de actividades Achú - Actividades para estudiantes sobre los virus, la prevención e higiene. Desarollado por El Fideicomiso de Salud Pública de PR. 
  • Actividad sobre gérmenes - Contiene actividades sobre la propagación de gérmenes y la importancia del lavado de manos. Desarollado por El Fideicomiso de Salud Pública de PR. 

Lecciones en línea del kit Ciencia al Servicio

Lecciones en línea del kit Ciencia al Servicio

 
Abajo encontrarás lecciones de ciencia y tecnología divertidas para hacer en casa. ¿Quieres descargárlas? Presiona aquí para acceder los recursos:
 

Elemental o Taller I y II Montessori 

  • Libro de actividades Achú - Actividades para estudiantes sobre los virus, la prevención e higiene. Desarollado por El Fideicomiso de Salud Pública de PR. 
  • Actividad sobre gérmenes - Contiene actividades sobre la propagación de gérmenes y la importancia del lavado de manos. Desarollado por El Fideicomiso de Salud Pública de PR. 

Ciencia al Servicio "Kit" for STEM educators

As part of its initiative for STEM educators in response to natural disasters, CienciaPR have designed a prototype of an "emergency kit"  for teachers containing accessible and reproducible educational material, with content aligned  to  the Department of Education' of Puerto Rico’s science and math standards (and with the ability to align to other subject standards)  for  elementary, intermediate and higher levels (regular and Montessori), along with guidelines for its implementation. Educational material can be used outside the traditional classroom and does not require the use of electrical power, and/or advanced technology. Materials in each "kit" can cover content for approximately 3-5 months.  

Call for climate actions in Puerto Rico

Submitted by Isabel Katsí Parés-Ramos on

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Wallace Broecker, one of the first scientists to declare that polluting human actions caused climate change died recently. In 1975, Broecker embraced the term "global warming" in a publication for Science, where he showed that high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the use of fossil fuels increase the Earth's temperature. Puerto Rico is vulnerable to global warming, associated with extreme droughts and intense hurricanes in the Caribbean region. This is one of the findings described by the local and international scientists in the Caribbean chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4). Almost 50 years after Broecker warned about the need to mitigate global warming, climate change is not a topic that is given sufficient priority in the political scene in Puerto Rico. This must change.

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