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El Nio Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
2014-07-10 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security. Scientists at the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies (INETER) say the situation is correlated with the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a weather cycle that periodically causes drought on the western Pacific seaboard and the centre of the country, in contrast...
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