26 MAY 1998. MEXICO (VERACRUZ): DROUGHT
"I am a conservation biologist who has been living and
working in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico for the last two years at the Instituto
de Ecologia. We have a conservation project currently in progress along
the Gulf Coast of Veracruz. This isn't a technical report, but rather a
personal anecdote of sorts. The drought here in Veracruz (and elswhere
in Mexico) is pretty severe. For example, entire lagoon systems at our
project site have completely dried up. Fires and smoke up in the mountains
of El Cofre de Perote, on the inland road to Mexico City, are periodically
visible here in Xalapa. The haze that has long been hanging down around
the coast has now moved up and into the temperate "rain" forests here around
Xalapa. These hazes (called "bruma") are now regularly causing the closure
of the international airport at the port of Veracruz."--Dan Bennack bennack@sun.ieco.conacyt.mx.
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