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A 900-ton equipment platform suspended hundreds of feet above the ground fell and punched a hole in the giant radio dish below, marking a catastrophic end for the iconic observatory.

Graduate students at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus have issued a public statement denouncing their institution over late payments for teaching and research assistants.

Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico suffered major setbacks due to damages and delays in repairs, and government austerity measures are adding insult to injury.

Trek along with NASA scientists surveying the damage to Puerto Rican forests wrought by Hurricane Maria, which slammed into the island in 2017.

The study authors attribute the decreases to climate change.

Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago has hosted decades of research in cognition, primatology, immunization, and other areas.

Meet the people trying to save a research colony of rhesus macaques living on a small island off the coast of hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico.

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island, pharmaceutical plants are not back up to speed.

Studies suggest not all critters fare well in extreme weather, though some thrive.

The pause on campus operations, which could last a month, is just one example of the hurricane’s devastation.

Scientists leave behind ongoing experiments as the Category 5 hurricane whips through the Caribbean and heads toward the U.S. mainland.