JTF-Bravo Service Members Provide Medical Support to Honduran Communities dialogo-americas.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dialogo-americas.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site
Honduras’ Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve occupies a large portion of the country’s eastern region.
However, despite official protection and recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Río Plátano is plagued by deforestation; satellite data show the biosphere reserve lost 13% of its primary forest cover between 2002 and 2020.
Deforestation shot up in 2020, nearly doubling the amount of forest loss over 2019. 2021 may be another rocky year for the biosphere reserve, with satellite data showing several “unusually high” spikes of clearing activity so far this year.
Sources say deforestation in the reserve is being driven by logging, agriculture and the drug trade.
Iota grows to Category 2 hurricane as it nears Central America Reuters
dimanche, 15 novembre 2020 à 20:08 - The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) is warning Iota could bring flash flooding and mudslides across northern Colombia and Central America as early as Monday.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Iota has strengthened into a category 2 hurricane as it barrels toward Central America, a region still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Eta, and experts predict this year s unprecedented storm season will force more people to migrate.
As of 7 p.m. EST on Sunday (000 GMT on Monday), Hurricane Iota was about 255 miles (410 km) off the Nicaraguan-Honduran coast, packing maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (161 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).
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20.4°C (69 F), humidity: 94%, wind: 1 m/s (2 kts) from SPrimary data source: INETER
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