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Nicaragua: climate change and environment 14 images Created 3 Jun 2019

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  • A bridge at Pueblo Nuevo in northern Nicaragua. Without the hoped-for rains, the bridge hasn't seen any water running under it for many months. The rains just didn't come. In wide areas across Central America harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing great hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • A bridge over the Río Pueblo Nuevo near Estelí in northern Nicaragua, that no water has passed under for months. The rains just didn't come. In wide areas across El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing enormous hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • A bridge near San Francisco Libre in central Nicaragua, that no water has passed under for months. The rains just didn't come. In wide areas across El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing enormous hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • Arnulfo José Espinoza Gonzalez inspects one of dozens of wells that have dried up near San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua. Drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed.
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  • In San Francisco Libre, children watch a cow that is too weak to stand because of the drought affecting the area. Thousands of cattle have died from the drought, and this animal is unlikely to survive. Drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed.
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  • A bridge in San Francisco Libre in central Nicaragua. Clouds pass overhead but no rain has fallen for months, and it's the rainy season. In wide areas across El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing enormous hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • Two girls ride their horses near San Francisco Libre. Drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed.
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  • Hauling on a rope to pull a well-digger out of the well. Most wells in San Francisco Libre have dried up, those with any water have to be deepened. The drought in this area is so severe that thousands of cattle have perished, and human life is becoming increasingly vulnerable. Crops have failed, animals have died, and the water is drying up. The drought is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • Arnulfo José Espinoza Gonzalez is hauled up by a rope from a well he is digging deeper. Most wells in San Francisco Libre in Nicaragua have dried up, those with any water have to be deepened. The drought in this area is so severe that thousands of cattle have perished, and human life is becoming increasingly vulnerable. Crops have failed, animals have died, and the water is drying up. The drought is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed.
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  • Cattle that has died in the drought, San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua. The drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed. Climate change is widely believed to be responsible for the drought.
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  • Cattle that has died in the drought, San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua. The drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed. Climate change is widely believed to be responsible for the drought.
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  • Cowboy Mikol Hernández inspects the carcasses of cattle that died in recent drought in San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua. As the cattle began to struggle the ranchers moved them away to areas without drought, or they died. At the same time, as the crops failed on several consecutive years and as the water table dropped and the wells dried up, people began move away. Unable to sell their land, many of them move to uncontrolled areas of forest in the autonomous regions of the Atlantic where they cut down forest to make way for agriculture.
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  • There is an energy crisis in most of the region because hydroelectric power doesn't work without rain, drought is causing powercuts. Here, most of bed of the dam at Las Canoas, Nicaragua, is now exposed because of a huge loss of water. The drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed. Climate change is believed to be responsible for the drought.
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