Issue Sep 23-29 2026: The drought affecting the Honduran municipality of Santa Ana has dealt a severe blow to the area’s agriculture sector and is threatening to cause widespread food and economic crises next year. Jorge Sandres, the city’s mayor, has called upon the country’s federal government to implement emergency measures aimed at guaranteeing water

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: Faced with the possible impact of the El Niño phenomenon, the Peruvian municipality of Carabayllo has launched an environmental education and clean-up initiative in the area. As part of the project, 300 volunteers removed waste from the Chillón River and its environs.

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: Costa Rica is known around the world for monkeys, sloths, toucans, sea turtles, and an enormous variety of plants, but one of the richest forms of biodiversity is much easier to overlook, growing in the soil, on fallen trees, among wet leaves and sometimes almost completely out of sight.