2016 was a rough year for many people around the world, and Costa Rica was no exception: the country experienced a series of natural disasters from which people…
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – One person died and four others were missing in flooding that hit Haiti, leaving at least 9,600 houses in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country underwater, officials…
The potential risk of a major landslide near the town of Tres Ríos in the Cartago canton of La Unión has sparked a controversy over whether or not owners of a…
LE BOURGET, France – Honduras, Myanmar and Haiti top a new list of nations hardest hit by two decades of storms, floods and landslides that killed more…
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico – Hurricane Patricia, a storm of record-setting ferocity, proved no match for the Sierra Madre Occidental. Confronted by the mountain range's high peaks, Patricia crumpled,…
The University of Costa Rica's Marine Sciences Research Center (CIMAR) reported Friday that high tides could cause flooding in communities along the Pacific coast starting Tuesday. The rise in…
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico – Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia weakened to a tropical depression over north-central Mexico on Saturday, dumping heavy rain that triggered flooding and landslides but so far…
[caption id="attachment_78003" align="aligncenter" width="565"] (Courtesy NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center)[/caption] MEXICO CITY – Hurricane Patricia spiraled toward Mexico's Pacific coast on Thursday, threatening to mushroom into an "extremely…
Survivors of the devastating mudslide that buried a community outside of Guatemala City on Oct. 1 could be relocated to nearby land expropriated from a notorious alleged…
