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Puerto Rico food scene thriving after string of disasters

May 23, 2022439 Views

The Puerto Rican food scene had reached its peak. Young chefs were inventing delicious new creations, restaurants popped up all over the island, the industry was no longer reliant on tourist season. Then a series of calamities hit: a hurricane, a series of earthquakes, a pandemic. Each time, Puerto Ricans recovered and rebuilt — restaurant owners right there with them. Now, as the pandemic starts to wane, the Puerto Rican food scene is thriving again. “It’s been rocky, but we’re resilient,” said chef Mario Pagán, who owns five restaurants in Puerto Rico. “You can definitely see it coming back around now.” FILE PHOTO: Chef Mario Pagán, who owns five restaurants in Puerto Rico, preparing a dish and drinks during The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo., on Sept. 11, 2021. (Ha...

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New Mexico wildfires threaten UNESCO heritage sites

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May 13, 2022763 Views

Multi-million dollar resorts and California mansions up in flames Wildfires edged towards mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Thursday and engulfed an enclave of multi-million-dollar mansions in southern California. Residents of around 900 houses were under evacuation in coastal California and one firefighter was injured when a wildfire fire torched about 200 acres (81 hectares) in Laguna Niguel on Wednesday, Orange County officials said. Smoke from a wildfire rises above a residential area in Laguna Niguel, Orange County, California, U.S. May 11, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. Tim Wheaton/via REUTERS In New Mexico, meanwhile, more than 300 homes and other buildings have been destroyed in wildfires burning since early last month. As westerly winds...

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Hearst Castle is back- reopening on May 11

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May 9, 20222014 Views

For the first time in more than two years, visitors can once again tour this architectural marvel on California’s Central Coast. With the gradual lifting of COVID-related regulations and the completion of a $13.7 million project to repair and improve the road, Hearst Castle is again accepting advance tour reservations. Among the reopening’s highlights is the new Julia Morgan Tour, which leads into rarely visited sections of the castle as it focuses on the life and career of the woman who designed more than 700 buildings in California. The resumption of tours at Hearst Castle is the big news, and will no doubt inspire many road trippers to venture along California’s Highway 1. Here is a quick guide to some of the top things to do near Hearst Castle on the north coast of San Luis ...

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Cubans grow corals, restore ailing barrier reef on shoestring budget

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May 7, 2022511 Views

A small group of Cuban dive instructors, working on a shoe-string budget and with flotsam salvaged from the beach, have launched a small-scale project to grow corals and replant them, in hopes of restoring a patch of Cuba's barrier reef. Luis Muiño, 44, one of the project's leaders, grew up as a fisherman nearby, and said he saw his beloved reefs outside the mouth of Matanzas Harbor, on Cuba's north coast, slowly decline and fish grow scarce over nearly three decades. Professional diver and coral reef conservationist Luis Muino cleans the coral nursery from algae in Playa Coral beach, Cuba April 29, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini "It's incredible the loss of coral in the past 30 years," Muiño told Reuters. "Our dream is to repopulate again the parts of the barrier reef that ha...

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The New Jet Set: How the COVID-driven boom in private jets is still flying high

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May 3, 20221226 Views

Guy Stockbridge runs multiple businesses from his headquarters in central California, including landscape companies that ripple across his home state and a utility solar business with operations in 17 states. Flying is a way of life for Stockbridge and others at his company, Elite Team Offices, based in Clovis. For years they flew both privately and on commercial flights out of Fresno, roughly 10 miles from Clovis. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and private jet ownership became more and more attractive. "Buying a jet has been on my mind for years, but Covid definitely added to the equation!" Stockbridge told Reuters by email. He is not alone. FILE PHOTO: A Bombardier BD-100-1A10 Challenger 350 aircraft (Registration CS-CHE) of NetJets is pictured at Sion airport in Sion, Swit...

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Dangerous New Mexico wildfire menaces historic city

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May 3, 2022427 Views

Hundreds of households in the historic New Mexico city of Las Vegas were told to evacuate on Monday as fierce winds and drought pushed the largest active wildfire in the United States closer to town. The blaze has scorched more than 121,000 acres (49,000 hectares), or more than half the area of New York City, tearing through centuries-old settlements and vacation homes in forested mountains 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Santa Fe. A satellite image shows a natural color closer view of fire lines of Hermits Peak wildfire, east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S., May 1, 2022. Satellite image 2022 Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS The fire is the most destructive of a dozen blazes in the Southwest that scientists say are more widespread and arriving earlier this year due to c...

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Augmented reality exhibit in New York looks at impact of climate change

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April 30, 2022726 Views

'Arcadia Earth' is an immersive environmental art exhibit in New York City that uses augmented reality to spread awareness about the impact of climate change, said the museum's founder, Valentino Vettori. A view of an exhibit at Arcadia Earth, the first immersive environmental art exhibit to use Microsoft HoloLens's augmented reality headset to spread awareness about the impacts of climate change, in New York City, U.S., April 28, 2022. Roselle Chen/REUTERS As visitors wander throughout the rooms filled with immersive installations, such as one made of 44,000 plastic bags - the amount used in New York state every minute before the plastic bag ban - they wear an AR headset that brings the installations to life, teaching environmental facts. "The intention is to inspire people to c...

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Worsening thaw-spurred landslide curtails access to Alaska’s Denali park

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April 26, 2022481 Views

For 50 years, visitors to Alaska's Denali National Park were ferried by shuttle buses along a 92-mile road to take in sweeping vistas, watch rambling bears, moose and caribou and gaze at the snowy flanks of North America's tallest peak. Not this year. This summer and next year, the park's sole road will remain closed at its halfway point, victim to a warming climate that has triggered the collapse of a mountain slope. The site, called Pretty Rocks, is at a high point on the unpaved road. Since last August, it has been considered unsafe for public travel. The landslide there used to be gradual and measured in inches per year, but it has accelerated dramatically, hastened by thawing of the underlying layers of once-perpetually frozen soil known as permafrost. FILE PHOTO: Geologi...

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Breeding threatened coral species to restore reefs

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April 24, 2022874 Views

Scientists have successfully bred a threatened species of coral as part of a project that hopes to restore damaged reefs off the coast of Florida that are under threat by a relatively new disease, a coral rescue organization has said. Reefs in Florida and the Caribbean are facing growing threat of destruction by the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease that strips coral of its color and ultimately its life altogether. Baby rough cactus coral (Mycetophyllia ferox) is seen in a tank at the Florida Coral Rescue Center in this undated handout photo released by Seaworld. Seaworld/Handout via REUTERS The Florida Coral Rescue Center has in recent weeks bred hundreds of new coral of a species called rough cactus coral at a 2,000-square-foot (185.80-square-meter) facility that houses a total o...

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Hydrogen-powered ferry prepares to launch in San Francisco Bay

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April 21, 2022231 Views

The San Francisco Bay will soon have a new fossil fuel-free ferry floating in its waters, propelled completely by hydrogen fuel cells, and officials hope it heralds change on the high seas. Aptly named Sea Change, the 70-foot (21-meter), 75-passenger ferry will service multiple stops along San Francisco’s waterfront. It was built at All American Marine shipyard in Bellingham, Washington, and was undergoing tests with the U.S. Coast Guard in nearby Puget Sound. “We’re here in the water, under hydrogen fuel cell power and it’s the first commercial vessel in the world that’s got that propulsion system,” said Pace Ralli, chief executive of Switch Maritime, standing on the bow of the ferry in Bellingham Bay. Sea Change ferry is seen docked at Squalicum Harbor in Bellingham, Washington...