Storm Nadine weakens over Guatemala after pummelling Belize, Mexico’s Yucatan
Belize City, Belize Reuters Storm Nadine weakened to a tropical depression on Saturday as it chugged across Guatemala, after dumping heavy rain and bringing strong winds to neighbouring Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The storm is expected to swirl across Guatemala and into Mexico’s south-eastern states of Chiapas and Tabasco through early Sunday, […]
Monstrous Hurricane Milton targets Florida, triggering evacuations from storm-weary coast
Updated: 7:30am, 9th October, 2024 (AEDT) Reuters An expanding Hurricane Milton churned toward Florida’s battered Gulf Coast on Tuesday, where more than a million people were ordered to evacuate a day before the monster storm is forecast to slam the Tampa Bay area. Milton, which exploded on Monday into one of the most intense Atlantic […]
Survival story as Hurricane Beryl razes smallest inhabited island of St Vincent and the Grenadines
Mayreau, St Vincent and the Grenadines AP Mayreu is one of the smallest inhabited islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines. It’s so small that it’s barely visible – a dot on the map of the Caribbean. Hurricane Beryl nearly erased it from the map. Beryl pummelled everything along its path, ripping up roofs of […]
God’s will or ecological disaster?: Mexico takes aim at Mennonite deforestation
CASSANDRA GARRISON, of Reuters, reports on growing calls for the Mexico’s Mennonite communities to adopt more sustainable farming practices…
Mexican rights commission calls for halt to ‘Mayan Train’ tourism project
Mexico City, Mexico Thomson Reuters Foundation Mexico’s national human rights commission on Thursday demanded the government halt construction of the Mayan Train railroad, saying non-essential work on the ambitious tourism project risked coronavirus exposure by vulnerable Indigenous groups. The government department overseeing the project said in response that it was taking necessary safety measures in […]