Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Climate-fueled disasters have ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical system several times in recent years. Now, as another hurricane season opens, many ...
Arturo Massol displays one of the solar-powered light bulbs that are helping to light Adjuntas. Photo by Ruben Salgado Escudero Electricity might be in short supply in this mountain community, but ...
This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and Next City as part of a series that looks at how cities are tackling inequality and the climate crisis. A Spanish-language version of this ...
It’s Thursday, March 16, and a rural community in Puerto Rico now has its own microgrid. Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is celebrating a milestone this week as it completes the final phase in a project to ...
ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico - September is ordinarily the beginning of harvest in the cool, crisp mountains of central Puerto Rico. Coffee farmers pluck the ripe arabica cherries from pregnant plants and ...
Ten months after Hurricane Maria, Adjuntas still loses power any time a heavy rain or wind pounds the rickety power lines feeding this town high in the central mountains of Puerto Rico. That leaves ...
Others commented that thermometers in their homes measured 55 to 57 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the National Weather Service in San Juan, the lowest measurement captured by a collaborating ...