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New science about the fate of freshwater ecosystems released today by the journal
Sustainability finds that only 17 percent of rivers globally are both free-flowing and within protected areas, leaving many of these highly-threatened systems¬ and the species that rely on them at risk. Populations of freshwater species have already declined by 84 percent on average since 1970, with degradation of rivers a leading cause of this decline. As a critical food source for hundreds of millions of people, we need to reverse this trend, said Ian Harrison, freshwater specialist at Conservation International, adjunct professor at Northern Arizona University and co-editor of the journal issue.
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Supporters of the opposition celebrated in Honduras when the president s brother was sentenced in the US
BBC- Inside a New York courtroom, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was known simply as “Co-conspirator 4”.
Yet being stripped of the deference his position traditionally commands was the least of his concerns. US prosecutors now consider him to be intimately and demonstrably linked to violent drug cartels.
In 2019, his younger brother, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, was found guilty of smuggling tonnes of cocaine into the United States during a criminal career that spanned over a decade.
To have your brother sentenced to life plus 30 years for drug trafficking would be a stain on any politician’s record. But under the full glare of the world’s media, prosecutors alleged his government was corrupt to its core – causing irreparable damage to his legitimacy as president.
U.S. faces calls to share vaccines
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Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated.
But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. And increasingly, he is wondering why the U.S. is not doing more to help, particularly as the American vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses that have been approved for use elsewhere in the world, but not in the U.S., sit idle. We live in a state of defenselessness on every level, Guevara said of the situation in his Central American homeland.