Showing posts with label Guayaquil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guayaquil. Show all posts

14 April 2011

ECUADOR: 17 Dead, 40 Injured After 2 Buses Collide On Main Highway.

LAHT/                            (File foto of Ecuador bus crash)

    Two buses collided shortly after dawn on the main highway at Pedro Carbo between Guayaquil and Portoviejo...killing 17 and injuring 40.
    Police believe one bus was trying to pass the other... when the crash occurred.

22 November 2009

COLOMBIA: Rising Sea Levels Threaten Latin American Coastal Cities.

LATIMES/
A World Bank study states that the effects of global warming already seen in Latin American coastal cities could worsen in coming decades because sea levels will rise highest near the equator. Latin and Caribbean cities especially at risk include Veracruz, Mexico; Georgetown, Guyana; and Guayaquil, Ecuador.
"The projections are based on assumptions generally accepted by the scientific community and do not include the cataclysmic effects of possible advanced ice melting in the Antarctic or Greenland."