El Niño Triggers Drought Emergencies in Central America
Panama and El Salvador have declared drought emergencies as the El Niño weather phenomenon intensifies, threatening crops, water supplies, and shipping through the Panama Canal.
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El Nino reaches century-high intensity, threatens more extreme weather in 2027
Panama on Tuesday became the latest Central American country, after Honduras and El Salvador, to declare an emergency over El Nino, which has already forced a reduction in shipping through the Panama Canal. El Nino is a weather pattern that raises surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, generating global changes in winds and rainfall as well as erratic weather conditions. It is also nudging up global temperatures in a year predicted to be the hottest on record.
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Emergency measures by governments as drought affects water reserves, crops and global trade flows The post El Nino shows its “teeth”: Alarm in Panama & El Salvador as drought, lost crops & fewer ships hit the Canal appeared first on ProtoThema English.
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