While world leaders met and discussed the climate crisis at a United Nations conference in Scotland, one front in the battle to save the planet’s mangroves is thousands of miles away in Yucatán. Decades ago, mangroves lined the shores of Yucatán, but today there are only thin green bands of trees beside the sea interrupted…
Sea turtles continue to be endangered in Yucatán, but a new study suggests that their numbers are beginning to recover.
As Mike grew up, he dove back into nature, researching the environment, wildlife, and space. He understood the process he had to follow in order to achieve the photos he dreamed of.
Researchers in Yucatán have found a “lost world” of a mangrove ecosystem 124 miles from the nearest ocean, where they would normally exist. It runs along the banks of the San Pedro Martir River, which runs from the El Petén rainforests in Guatemala to the Balancán region in Tabasco. This is unusual because mangroves—salt-tolerant trees,…
The sargassum on the coast and the Sahara dust in the sky might have a connection. The stinky seaweed first sprouted in 2011 in the tropical Atlantic and has been plaguing beaches ever since. Sewage and farmland runoff have been blamed. But there’s another possible culprit — Africa’s Sahara dust, which blows over the ocean and…
This week we continue our quest to bring to you original photographs and information about some of Yucatán’s most amazing animals.
Scientists will document the effects of illegal fishing and tourism in the reefs of Alacranes and Bajos del Norte in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Though the exact number of animal species on the Yucatán Peninsula is hard to nail down, even conservative estimates place the number in the thousands.
A new report titled “the costs of urban expansion in Mexico” has found that Mérida’s strategy for growth is alarmingly deficient.
Aside from Mérida, the worst affected municipalities include Tizimín, Tecax, and Tzucacab, all of which are known for ranching and agriculture.
Video of the rescue was captured by one of the fishermen who can be heard speaking to the dolphin and reassuring it with gentle gestures..
“We need a new set of standards to address the problem, as honestly efforts so far have not only been unsuccessful but have actually made the problem worse,” said Pedro Castro Borges, of the CInsvestav research institute.
Worrying levels of pollution have been detected at four of Yucatán’s beaches.
Ecologists hope to learn more about this species, as well as what brought it to Yucatán in the first place.
The accident is said to have been caused by a faulty duct that released and ignited highly combustible gas in the Gulf.
Other than human beings, Yucatán is home to two species of primates, these being howler and spider monkeys.
The most affected areas include beaches on the state’s southern coast, but large patches of seaweed have extended all the way north to the tourist mecca of Cancun.
The nest contained eleven live baby turtles and well over one hundred hatched eggs shells.
In Yucatán, bugs are abundant, varied, and a tad frightening. Yet they are not all dangerous and are sometimes even desirable house guests.
The Yucatan peninsula is home to some of Mexico’s most beautiful and exuberants birds, 565 of them to be exact.
Local officials feel that the tiny resort island has reached capacity and any further development would be catastrophic.
Environmentalists argue that the construction of a large industrial pig farm within Yucatán’s Cenote Ring could create disastrous levels of contaminants.
Reaserchers point to pollution from rivers in South America and the United States as the likely cause of rapid sargassum growth. The sargasso sea was first observed by Christopher Columbus in 1492. However, since that time, that relatively small patch of seaweed has been transformed into a floating island of biomass spanning over 5,600 miles….
Scientists in Yucatán warn that within a couple of decades, saltwater could contaminate the drinking water supply of the entire peninsula. Because the water basin in much of Yucatán is so close to the surface, rising sea levels would be disastrous. The problem has already begun to manifest in some areas of the Riviera Maya,…
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