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Puerto Rico struggles to assess hurricane’s health effects. Delivering babies...

"The kind of work we’re doing is not because it would be interesting to do. It has to be done now because a few years from now, it’s too late.” José Cordero of the University of Georgia in...

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Study: Embryos kill off male tissue to become female challenging decades of...

Add a new ingredient to the sugar, spice and everything nice needed to make girls. Tina Hesman Saey, Molecular Biology, Senior Writer for Science NewsA fascinating article in Science News overturns the...

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Frog goes extinct, media yawns

“Is the loss of a unique life form on Earth big news? Not according to most media outlets. But how can the public care about global mass extinction if they aren’t even told about its victims? How can...

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Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides

Across the world, women are often the first to experience and suffer the horrors of human caused climate change. After a natural disaster strikes for example, women are the last to leave a devastated...

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On a remote atoll, a concrete dome holds a toxic time bomb. And it's leaking.

“That dome is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change age,” Marshall Islands climate change activist Alson Kelen.Vulnerable Pacific atolls are succumbing to rising sea levels...

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Can Caribbean Islands Really Adapt to Extreme Hurricanes? Climate, Sea Level,...

My dear friend, whose family resides in Orocovis, Puerto Rico, recently received photos of his hometown that were taken by a town resident via drone. The photos really show the extent of landslide...

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Puerto Rico's Recovery Hinders Farm Businesses' Seed Research. No One...

Besides the devastation to Puerto Rico’s farms after Hurricane Maria barreled over the island at 155 mph, the Global seed business took a major hit as well. For over 400 years Puerto Rico’s economy has...

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Breaking: YouTube terminates largest Climate Science channel in the World

Why? Don’t they have a fascist channel they could go after?Here we go again, after YouTube just last February took down the Climate State channel, and now again. The Climate State channel had close to...

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Over 204,000 Puerto Ricans have arrived in Florida blowing past previous...

Hopefully, Florida will be safe blue for a very long time. Trends support that may very well come to pass. Trump and the GOP have made Puerto Ricans suffer needlessly on the island, along with...

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A Giant Iceberg in West Antarctica Is Disintegrating, And Scientists Are Worried

Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier are the most vulnerable ice streams to human induced climate change in Antarctica. Warm ocean water is decaying the marine extensions of these glaciers, causing...

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Wildfire sweeps into Ventura, burning through heart of the sleeping city

Scary news out of California this morning. There appears to be a real possibility that the City of Ventura could be engulfed in flames from a wildfire. Prospects for fighting the fire are slim to none...

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Poignant - President Obama Speaks to Mayors at Chicago Climate Summit

How I miss President Obama. So much depth to this man. The pain and sadness I feel today is so overwhelming about the precious time that the tRump regime has robbed from us to save ourselves. Just...

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California will burn until it rains — and climate change may keep future...

Climate change denier Rupert Murdoch’s home is a smoldering ruin. Murdoch, as you know, has described climate change as “alarmist nonsense”. You still feel we can’t ring the alarm yet Rupert? There...

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Nearly 1,000 More People Died in Puerto Rico After Hurricane María

The Center for Puerto Rican (CPI) Studies of The City University of New York have released a report stating that deaths in Puerto Rico have been underestimated. The increased deaths are due to the...

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China Has Launched the World’s First All-Electric Cargo Ship- Sadly it is...

China has debuted the world’s first all electric cargo ship and it is already being put to use. According to China Daily, the 2000 metric ton ship is a “technological breakthrough as it is the first in...

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As Oceans Warm, the World’s Kelp Forests Begin to Disappear

We are getting a preview of what rapid warming of the oceans will look like as tropical marine species begin to migrate to more temperate marine regions made possible by increasing surface water...

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NY Times Editorial Board knocks it out of the park - The Looting of America’s...

I feared Trump would go after Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and that is exactly what he is going to do next after withdrawing 2 million acres from federal protection of some of the most...

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UN visits Puerto Rico to assess help for hurricane victims

How pathetic.Donald Trump’s racism and incompetence has come back to bite him in the a$$. The UN is sending a poverty and human rights expert to Puerto Rico after receiving complaints on the US...

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Study: The Worst-Case Climate Predictions Are the Most Accurate Ones.

In the 1970s, scientific consensus increasingly acknowledged that global warming was a clear and present danger if greenhouse gases were not curtailed. Since that time, “the year 2100” has been...

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Puerto Rico Launches Campaign to Save Hurricane-Damaged Recordings. Some more...

If Cuba is the key creative source of Latin Caribbean music, Puerto Rico is its equal as a supplier of performers and it was the great Puerto Rican immigrant community in New York (the Nuyoricans) that...

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