SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A record amount of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is ...

Arsenic, cyanide, and mercury are all naturally occurring chemical elements and compounds that can all be fatal if ingested ...

Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines say they have discovered an abandoned boat and the remains of 11 people along with passports from the west African country of Mali. Police said in ...

A smelly, sometimes toxic “killer belt of seaweed” might put a damper on Floridians’ Memorial Day weekend plans. Sargassum is ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. jury has found a once powerful Haitian gang leader guilty of organizing the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens in 2021 and holding them hostage for more than two months ...

Smoke from burning toxic waste is the last thing ... be able to burn anything, including plant waste, in residential areas." On the subject of burning coal and coal ash, Osvaldo Rosario, a University ...

Chemicals from a beryllium plant contaminated their groundwater ... "My mom is 88. She lives in Puerto Rico. I may have to go there in 5 years or whatever and when I sell my property, what's ...

There are trees in the majority of plant families. Puerto Rico has 631 native tree species ... This is because of the milky toxic sap in its bark, leaves, and fruit that cause painful blisters. It’s ...

The environmental group Earth Justice has also flagged Puerto Rico for dangerous amounts of coal ash – the byproduct of coal-bunring plants that is so toxic it is supposed to be stored in specially ...

leaving behind spent munitions containing toxic metals that researchers link to the much higher rate of cancer among the roughly 8,000 Puerto Ricans living there. Puerto Rico’s largest power station, ...

Four of Puerto Rico’s seven facilities made the list. This clustering of sterilization plants is directly tied ... Steri-Tech, for example, is the most toxic medical sterilizer in all of the ...