Climate
-
AMERICAS
El Niño’s Double Edge: Chile’s Desert Blooms as Latin America Faces Peril
Chile’s Atacama Desert is flowering after exceptional winter rains, offering native plants a rare reproductive opening and tourism a seasonal…
Read More » -
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Jamaica Welcomes Tourists While Hurricane Melissa’s Survivors Still Wait to Go Home
A year after Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica, reopened hotels and international pledges coexist with families rebuilding homes and incomes. Its…
Read More » -
AMERICAS
Quito Banks on La Mica as El Niño Tests Its Water Supply
Quito’s La Mica reservoir is nearly full, reassuring 450,000 residents as El Niño threatens Andean rainfall. But last year’s broken…
Read More » -
ANALYSIS
Colombia’s Amazon Oil Reversal: Who Pays the Price for Forest Loss?
Colombia’s reversal of an Amazon oil-protection measure has reignited a political fight over consultation, conservation, and development. Behind the accusations…
Read More » -
LIFE
Colombian Caribbean Heat Makes Cooling Essential Just as Drought Squeezes Water and Power
El Niño is intensifying heat across the Colombian Caribbean, sending residents to clinics while drought strains water and electricity supplies.…
Read More » -
LIFE
Guatemalan Farmers Lose Their Harvests and Find Hunger Growing in Their Place
In eastern Guatemala, drought has destroyed crops meant to keep families fed when other harvests failed. Empty wells, lost investments,…
Read More » -
ECONOMY
El Salvador and Guatemala Watch Lake Güija’s Rainy Season Come Up Short
At Lake Güija, El Niño is threatening fishing, farming, and water supplies shared by El Salvador and Guatemala. Families await…
Read More » -
LIFE
Latin America Faces El Niño’s Hunger Bill as Corn and Beans Wither
El Niño threatens to push 16 million more people into food insecurity across Latin America and the Caribbean. In Honduras,…
Read More » -
AMERICAS
El Salvador Farmers Watch El Niño Turn Corn into Dust
In San Esteban Catarina, farmers who planted with faith now walk through brittle cornfields. El Niño has erased harvests, income,…
Read More » -
ECONOMY
Panama Guards a Thirsty Canal as Trade and Threats Converge
Panama is tightening ship traffic as drought lowers canal water, while multinational forces rehearse defenses against cartels and attacks. The…
Read More »