The termite might be an unlikely symbol of the commonwealth relationship between Puerto Rico and the U.S., but for Charles Juhasz- Alvarado—a sculptor who lives in San Juan—the insect has become a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — It was a special honor for the woman who named the Big Blue Bug. Eighty-seven-year-old Geraldine Perry of Tiverton got to flip the switch Monday night to light the giant ...

PALMEIRAS, Brazil — Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil’s hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and wondered.