Los investigadores de la Escuela de Ingeniería de la Universidad Loyola (España), Carlos Ortiz y Mauricio Zurita, han realizado una estancia en Honduras con el fin de analizar una serie de residuos procedentes del cultivo del café con el fin de generar alternativas para la producción de energía. Esta acción la han llevado a cabo en las regiones hondureñas de Marcala y Santa Rosa de Copán, dos de las provincias con más cooperativas de producción de café en toda Centroamérica.

The cloud forests of Honduras can seem like an otherworldly place, where the trees are thick with life that takes in water straight from the air around it, and the soundscape is littered with the calls of animals singing back and forth. Otherworldly, yes, but scientists have found that the cloud forests are not immune to very down-to-earth problems of climate change and deforestation. A 10-year study of bird populations in Cusuco National Park, Honduras, shows that the peak of bird diversity in this mountainous park is moving higher in elevation. Additional land protection, unfortunately, may not be enough to reverse the trend, driven in part by globally rising temperatures. The study is published in Biotropica.