During Hurricane Maria, well-known Puerto Rican percussionist Tito Matos lost the building where he gave weekly children’s workshops on ‘plena,’ a type of Puerto Rican folkloric music. But that didn’t stop him from continuing to share the folklore. On October 4 he took his instruments to the Plaza del Indio in San Juan to play. In the midst of stress over long lines, no electricity or water, and damage from Hurricane Maria, Matos summoned both adults and children to enjoy the music of their ancestors.

We asked eight survivors of hurricanes Irma and Maria in Florida and the Caribbean what climate change means to them and if they think it affected the frequency and force of hurricanes in 2017. Here’s what they had to say.

After Hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through Puerto Rico, some 3,000 volunteers worked together to clean up the UPR, the country’s only public university.

Esto es lo que dice la ciencia sobre cómo influye el calor en la intesidad de las tormentas.