date:Aug 11, 2014
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In northern Nicaragua, vultures are eating the carcasses of cows that are dropping dead in dried out pastures.
It's exhausting. I have to travel up to five kilometers (three miles), Roman said as he walked slowly along an artificial lake under a scorching sun that has reddened his face.
Half the lake has dried up, said the 41-year-old father of four and farmer who sells milk for a living in the Boaco province, 70 kilometers north-east of the capital. When t