Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power and more than 400,000 without ...

Ernesto has become a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday after hitting Puerto Rico overnight and leaving power outages and flooding in ... and the effects of climate change are only exacerbating ...

Trump’s public policy against climate change also wreaks havoc at UPR ... Valdés Pizzini is part of the Puerto Rico Adapted Flood Maps research project conducted by the Graduate School of ...

After a $1 billion cut to one of the main federally funded mitigation programs — designed to help communities tackle climate ...

Legislative bills include proposal for recycled tire paving and demands answers on the cost of failing to address the climate crisis. #NewsismyBusiness ...

Storms, stars and our planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. Damaging wind gusts, flooding in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands As Ernesto pummeled Puerto Rico early Wednesday ...

Power was restored to 98.8% of customers early Friday after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto earlier this week, authorities said. More than 1.45 million customers had electricity less than 48 hours ...

Trees were uprooted, homes were destroyed, and there was also widespread flooding. “This is total devastation,” said Carlos Mercader, a spokesman for Puerto Rico’s governor. “Puerto Rico ...