¡Puerto Rico se levanta! Rebuilding after Maria
Puerto Rico is rising again.
It may be getting harder for Puerto Rico’s national forest to recover from storms
Tropical forests like El Yunque have evolved to recover from hurricanes. But if those storms grow more intense or frequent, forests may be less able to bounce back. And that could hurt communities that depend on the forest for water.
A year after Maria, Puerto Rican college students find home – on the island and off
Rosamari Palerm transferred to a school in Miami last fall after her school shut down in the wake of Hurricane Maria. She’s returned home to San Juan, but some of her classmates have stayed, making new homes in Miami.
In Puerto Rico’s coffee country, ‘We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil again’
More than 260 schools in Puerto Rico closed this summer due to low enrollment after Maria. A group of women want to transform one in western Puerto Rico into an educational center to revive the region’s coffee industry.
