When Puerto Rico started building its power grid in the 1940s, forest covered about 6 percent of the agriculture-dependent island. As it industrialized, land use changed. Today, forest grows on more ...

The Puerto Rican government welcomed the project because virtually all of the wood used in Puerto Rico was being imported, rather than being grown on the island. Sustainable forestry With the ...

CAGUAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — Firefighters in this city near Puerto Rico’s capital cheered when they recently got updated maps that include rural neighborhoods, confessing they sometimes had to ...

Hurricane Fiona knocked many of Puerto Rico's avocados off their trees. In the days since the storm, everywhere you go, people are scrambling to eat and give away avocados before they rot.

LAJAS, Puerto Rico — There's an old superstition in Puerto Rico that when the avocado trees are especially full of fruit, there's a hurricane coming.