Puerto Rico land set aside for frogs
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday designated rocky stream banks and privately owned land in southeastern Puerto Rico as critical habitat for a threatened species of the coqui frog, a national symbol of the Caribbean island.
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Federal officials agreed Friday to a plan to build up levees to 18 feet high along the Rio Grande that would eliminate the need for a section of a U.S.-Mexico border fence that could have stranded dozens of homes.
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By Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 8--TRINIDAD -- The only things missing were the tar and feathers.
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Puerto Rico&#39;s protracted election came to a close Tuesday after nearly two months of recounts and legal disputes with the certification of Anibal Acevedo Vila as the US territory&#39;s new governor.
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The Southern chorus frog has been found in southeastern Virginia, far outside its previously known range. The animal had never before been reported north of Beaufort County, N.C., about 125 miles to the south.
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Puerto Rico's governor-elect said Wednesday he opposes the war in Iraq and wants to see a reduction in the number of U.S. troops &#151; including islanders &#151; posted in the troubled country.
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By Melissa McEver, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas  Jun. 23--LAGUNA ATASCOSA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE -- The waters of the Bahia Grande are flowing freely once again.
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Leftist Zapatista rebels announced Wednesday they will voluntarily withdraw seven squatter settlements from an endangered jungle nature reserve, a move that may mark the end a decade-long standoff with authorities.
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ROMA, Tex. -- Since 1767, some 150 acres of wooded riverfront along the Rio Grande has belonged to the family of Cecilia Ramirez Benavides, land granted to her ancestors by Spanish settlers who colonized Mexico, or  New Spain, as it was then known.
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OISTINS, Barbados -- Some people in this self-proclaimed Land of the Flying Fish now concede that it might have been unwise to make a wandering species the nation's mascot.
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There&#039;s hardly a spot on Cuba untouched by its slavery past, not unlike most Caribbean islands.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 17--An environmental group is asking a court to throw out a state decision that aided Newport News' plans to develop a $235 million reservoir in King William County.
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ARECIBO, Puerto Rico -- In the tangled forests of Puerto Rico's steamy interior, suspended by steel cables strung from 300-foot towers, an array of antennas hangs above an aluminum bowl 1,000 feet in diameter that gazes into space.
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EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico _ I think the first clue that I was a wee bit overdressed for my foray into Puerto Rico's Caribbean National Forest was when I looked down at my guide's feet and discovered he was wearing a pair of backless plastic clogs that were very clean and very lavender.
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Scientists find what appears to be a cure for the disease that is wiping out many of the world's frog species.
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By JULIAN WALKER  A developer will be allowed to destroy some wetlands and streams in Chesterfield County to make way for a road extension to a planned mixed-use development.  The decision came yesterday from the State Water Control Board, which reversed a previous decision.
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Raucous squawking erupts from cages filled with dozens of parrots &#151; a hopeful sound from a species on the brink of extinction. The last chance of survival for the Puerto Rican parrot may lie in forest aviaries where these captive birds began their nesting in January under close observation.