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Huge green pipes on sandy ground against a dark blue sky

Latin American and Caribbean countries use volcanic landscapes to tap geothermal energy

The Big Fix

Global capacity for geothermal energy has nearly doubled over the past two decades.

A hurricane is pictured from space going over Puerto Rico.

Caribbean fish love catastrophic hurricanes

Environment
People huddle outside glass doors in a big group

How Dorian’s destruction is hurting the Bahamas’ most vulnerable

Returning to El Barrio

Arts, Culture & Media
Hazel Bethel is a Manischewitz wine devotee. She's originally from Trinidad and was introduced to the wine by friends who worked in Jewish homes in New York.

Is that Manischewitz? The Kosher wine is a hit in some Caribbean communities.

Food
Dominica Hurricane Maria

After pummeling Dominica, Hurricane Maria forces Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands to brace for impact

Development

“I am at the mercy of the hurricane. My roof is gone. House is flooding,” Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit posted on Facebook.

Veteran Cuban weather forecaster Jose Rubiera is now retired. But when a big storm hits, he returns to his broadcasts, to the relief of many Cubans.

To reassure Cubans, a revered meteorologist returns to the airwaves

Science

As Hurricane Irma approached, many Cubans found this forecaster’s absence more worrying than the storm. So he came out of retirement.

Hurricane Irma over Puerto Rico

After Hurricane Irma, Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders want more relief from fellow Americans

Development

While Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands clean up after Hurricane Irma, many residents of these US territories say the challenge of storm relief is not just the devastation, but neglect from their fellow Americans in the continental US.

Hurricane Irma has moved off from the northern coast of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.

Irma rips through the Caribbean, with a wallop to the US Virgin Islands

Development

With Florida still preparing for landfall, US citizens are already reeling from the punch of Hurricane Irma.

Fallen banana trees cover a roadside after the passage of Hurricane Matthew in Cuba's Guantanamo province in October, 2016.

With Hurricane Irma bearing down, Cuba and Haiti prepare for the worst

Science

Haitians and Cubans are preparing for the storms in starkly different ways.

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