Puerto Rico

It’s time to add one more contingency to your travel plans: a major natural disaster.

In the emergency order, the commonwealth’s department of health said it had recorded 549 cases of the disease this year so far, a 140 per cent increase over the same period a year ago.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Haiti's now-departing prime minister about the ongoing humanitarian, security and political crises in that country.

The stress and trauma of losing a loved one, seeing a home destroyed or watching a beloved community splinter have resounding mental health repercussions that stretch on for months, even years after the disaster makes its first impact. 

Researchers say the coquí frogs appear to be decreasing in size at warmer temperatures, which causes their croaks to become high-pitched. If the trends continue, the heat could become too much for the sensitive amphibians to survive successfully.

More than a half million people in Puerto Rico remained without water service three days after Hurricane Fiona slammed into the U.S. territory, and many spent hours in lines on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, to fill jugs from water trucks while others scooped water from mountain runoff.

The Category 3 storm devastated Puerto Rico, where most people remained without electricity or running water and rescuers used heavy equipment to lift survivors to safety.

Scholars are calling for greater engagement with Indigenous communities in the search for life on other planets.

Some theatres are back in business, but if you're still streaming your movies, here are some new titles for you ... starting with a giant.

Experts call for solutions to be enforced immediately to halt global population collapses

Some of the best places to grow crops look ripe for solar power.

Research shows abundance at sites in Europe has plunged by up to 80% in two decades

Young climate activists including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg told business and political elites gathered on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at the World Economic Forum that they aren't doing enough to tackle the climate emergency and warned them that time was running out.

From melting ice caps to record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes and floods, the deadly consequences of human-caused global warming are here.

Extreme weather is driving islanders from their homes -- but starting a new life could be as hard as sticking it out.