Honduras’s president threatened to push the U.S. military out of a base it built decades ago in the Central American country should President-elect Donald J. Trump carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants from the United States. The response by President Xiomara Castro of Honduras, in an address broadcast on television and radio on Wednesday, […]
On November 22, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily halted the import of cattle from Mexico after a flesh-eating parasite was detected in animals in southern Mexico. Before the discovery of cattle screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) at an inspection point in the state of Chiapas, the species had previously been eliminated in North America since […]
By Alex Fox Correspondent Suctioned to a leaf bottom in the rainforests of South and Central America, glass frogs seem to vanish in plain sight—the transparent skin of their undersides erasing the hard edges of their silhouette, making them difficult for birds and other predators to spot. The most transparent of the roughly 160 glass […]
Do we really have to go through all of this again? This question is on the minds of millions of Floridians as hurricane season again displays the tenacity of the cockroach and prepares to disgorge another Gulf Coast threat. While an eventual Florida impact is a possible scenario, any potential landfall remains around 7 days […]
