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Honduras Reports 154 Dengue Cases in 2025: Health Officials Urge Vigilance Amid Rainy Season
Honduran health officials administer dengue vaccines to children amid efforts to reduce cases during the rainy season. October 5, 2025 Hour: 10:56 am Honduras sees a decline in dengue cases with 154 confirmed in 2025, yet health authorities stress...
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Sat 4 October 2025 TROPICAL REPORT Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook Atlantic – Caribbean Sea – Gulf of MexicoTropical Weather Outlook 800 AM EDT Sat 4 Oct 2025 1205 UTC Sat 4 Oct 2025IMAGE FROM NHC Tropical Weather Outlook TextTropical Weather...

Honduras after a historic coffee harvest looks forward higher goals
For the next marketing year (2025-2026), the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) forecast a 10 percent increase in coffee production, consolidating its position as one of the main drivers of the national economy. In recent statements to...

Climate Adaptation in Central American Cities: The Region’s Great Climate Debt
A systematic analysis of more than 53,000 scientific publications on climate change in urban environments (2012–2022) reveals exponential growth in global knowledge in this field. However, marked geographic and thematic inequalities persist. More...

‘The system is collapsing’: Climate campaigners under threat as crucial UN conference looms
Lying at the foothills of several active volcanoes, the colonial-era town of Antigua is a fitting meeting point for civil society groups gathering in Guatemala from across Central America to prepare for one of the most consequential United Nations...

Climate refugees as emerging Jesuit responsibility
In the Catholic church, justice is something carried out in two forms (“two feet”): One is charity on a personal level, and the other is social justice on a systemic level. In order to carry out this mission of protecting human dignity and caring...

IMF Reaches Staff-Level Agreement with Honduras on the Fourth Review of the Extended Credit Facility and Extended Fund Facility
IMF staff and the Honduran authorities have reached staff-level agreement on policies and reforms to complete the fourth reviews of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangements. IMF Board approval of the review,...
Carnival, Royal Caribbean change cruise itineraries amid Hurricane Humberto, other weather
Cruise lines are changing Caribbean itineraries to avoid stormy weather. Tropical Storm Humberto became a hurricane northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and “is forecast to become a major hurricane later today or on Saturday,” the National...

Exotic animals free-for-all
Jamaican authorities confiscated more than 250 endangered and exotic species of animals over the last five years amid worrying signs that more locals are seeking to cash in on the global multibillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade. A total of 274...

Who Gets to Talk About Climate Change?
Image Credit: THEFUNKSHIP on Unsplash Wildfires and floods have dominated world news this year, impacting hundreds of thousands of people as these disasters continue to increase in intensity. Many people use these widespread events to point out...

An average week in 2024: Three environmental defenders murdered or disappeared
“What all of these attacks have in common is that they are intended to silence the voice of territorial and environmental defenders,” said the report’s lead author, Laura Furones. Since Global Witness began tracking annual deaths in 2012, more...

ICTSI Honduras sets regional sustainability benchmark
OPERADORA Portuaria Centroamericana (OPC), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) subsidiary in Honduras, has launched its first sustainability report, becoming the first port in Honduras and the CA-4 region (Guatemala, El...

Honduran man turned over to ICE after overfishing red drum at Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Last week, U.S. Marshals arrested a Honduran man illegally living in the U.S. who was wanted for to fish and wildlife crimes at Cape Hatteras National Seashore and turned him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Park rangers said...

Nigeria submits updated climate pledge to UN, targets 29% emissions cut by 2030
Nigeria has submitted its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). With clearly defined mid-century pathways, Nigeria now commits to reducing greenhouse gas...

Shady Contracts: Chinese Companies in Honduras Under Scrutiny
Despite their controversial track record, Chinese companies continue to win energy contracts in Honduras without transparent processes or real competition, a dynamic that is drawing strong criticism from civil society. This pattern of opaque deals...

World CNN An activist’s murder rocked Honduras. Now her daughter is in the hot seat
Bertha Zúñiga is no stranger to threats. She remembers the day years ago when she and her colleagues were chased by machete-wielding attackers in western Honduras. A vehicle blocked their car, and its passengers stepped out with their weapons,...

An activist’s murder rocked Honduras. Now her daughter is in the hot seat
Follow Bertha Zúñiga is no stranger to threats. She remembers the day years ago when she and her colleagues were chased by machete-wielding attackers in western Honduras. A vehicle blocked their car, and its passengers stepped out with their...

146 Land and Environmental Defenders Killed or Disappeared in 2024
Active Citizens, Civil Society, Conservation, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Freedom of Expression, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, TerraViva United Nations Conservation Julia Francisco Martínez stands at the graveside...
ICTSI Honduras sets regional benchmark with launch of first sustainability report
Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana (OPC), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s subsidiary in Honduras, continues to set the standard for ports in the country and the CA-4 region with the launch of its inaugural sustainability report....

120 Environmental Defenders Killed Or Disappeared In Latin America Last Year
"BOGOTA, Colombia — At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or have gone missing around the world in 2024, with more than 80% of those cases in Latin America, according to a report released Wednesday by watchdog group Global...