Nicaragua

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• Earthquake strikes off coast of El Salvador and Nicaragua

  14 Oct 2014: One man killed by falling power lines in El Salvador but magnitude-7.3 quake felt across Central America causes limited damage

• Can coffee stimulate renewable energy in Central America?

  Guardian Professional, 8 Oct 2014: A project to turn coffee wastewater into biogas is creating healthier environments, for farmers, flora and fauna, writes Mira-Bai Simon
  

• Nicaragua canal will wreak havoc on forests and displace people, NGO warns

  30 Sep 2014: Forests of the World says shipping companies must pressure Nicaragua and canal’s Chinese backer to limit the project’s impact

• Why has 'microhydro' been neglected as a solution to energy poverty?

  Guardian Professional, 24 Sep 2014: Power from streams and small rivers has been proven to provide sustainable energy in Peru and Nepal - Zimbabwe is next, writes Lucy Stevens
  

• World in a week: Malala shooting suspects arrested

  Guardian Professional, 12 Sep 2014: 8-12 September: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week

• Monoculture is failing Nicaragua's farmers

  Guardian Professional, 11 Sep 2014: NGOs must acknowledge the risks to livelihoods and food security and teach smallholders to diversify for higher profits, writes Joshua Smith

• Nasa questions whether crater in Nicaragua caused by meteorite

  9 Sep 2014: Experts say meteorite cannot be ruled out, but lack of accounts of fireball in sky suggest something else is behind event

• Meteorite strike in Nicaragua puzzles experts

  8 Sep 2014: Officials appeal for witnesses after residents report a loud boom but no one reports seeing the space rock streaking in the sky

• Meteorite 'caused mysterious boom in Nicaragua'

  8 Sep 2014: Asteroid fragment thought to have caused large crater and loud noise but uncertainty remains as no streak of light seen in sky

• Nicaragua's trans-oceanic canal survey leaves residents fearful of losing homes

  27 Aug 2014: Property owners express concerns about unfair compensation as one of history's biggest infrastructure projects is launched
  

• Nicaraguans told to eat iguanas as drought threatens food crisis

  15 Aug 2014: Lizard diet ridiculed but Central America’s poorest country is facing hunger because of poor harvests and rising food prices

• Pope reinstates revolutionary priest from Nicaragua's Sandinistas

  5 Aug 2014: Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann was banned from ministries in 1985 as part of crackdown on 'Marxist thought' in Catholic church

• Russia to reopen spy base in Cuba as relations with US continue to sour

  16 Jul 2014: Decision to reopen signals intelligence facility south of Havana follows Russia forgiving 90% of Cuba's unpaid Soviet-era debts

• Nicaragua unveils 173-mile route of £23bn canal to rival Panama

  8 Jul 2014:

  Waterway is hoped to lift central American country out of poverty but critics warn of legal, environmental and economic pitfalls

• Deforestation of Central America rises as Mexico's war on drugs moves south

  15 Apr 2014:

  Swaths of rainforest affected by 'narco-deforestation' caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers, reports Frédéric Saliba

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