Merida’s forestry and other environmental contingencies will be ramped up and re-thought. That’s the plan at the Secretariat of Sustainable Development (SDS) in light of the city’s sprawling growth and global climate change, reports Yucatan Novedades. The city is operating under a “Merida 2040” plan approved by the previous administration. Already the capital was absorbing…
Collecting the seaweed-like algae at sea or on land risks fish and turtles.
The sargassum crisis could cost the Riviera Maya up to 30 percent of its tourist trade, according to a presidential commission.
The new wind farm in Dzilam de Bravo is selling some of its energy to some candy factories that make some of the world’s favorite sweets.
After many delays, Yucatan’s first wind farm in inaugurated.
Years of work appears to be paying off at several beach sites, but most hatchlings face long odds.
Conanp seeks to prevent another rat infestation at Scorpion Reef’s delicate ecosystem.
Merida, Yucatan — A dozen college students from Iowa has helped clean up a part of the Itzimná neighborhood. The group from Central College, led by student Elizabeth Sheldon, were up early in the morning to pick up litter by the train tracks. They arrived wearing t-shirts, tennis shoes, shorts, gloves and plastic bags, all…
Grouper season begins with a pact to haul in plastics along with fish.
Yucatan’s capital joins cities around the world to mark Earth Hour.
Destructive seaweed is good for the sole, inventor finds.
Three suspected totoaba poachers in the Sea of Cortez were reportedly shot by Marines following a confrontation over illegal gillnets that had been confiscated. Fronteras reported that Baja California Gov. Francisco Vega, confirmed that three people were injured in a shootout between suspected poachers and Mexican military early Thursday morning in San Felipe, a small…
The federal government said it will use buoys to mark the protected home of the world’s most endangered marine mammal.
Document signed at Boston seafood show.
Mexico’s new ambassador to Canada has started off his tenure with a strong message to mining countries operating on his home turf.
An American couple allegedly walled off their beach at Santa Clara. Photo: Facebook
After one endangered vaquita is found dead, environmentalists are more pessimistic about saving the species.
Three proponents of a park at La Plancha are walking away. Here’s why.
The overall population of monarch butterflies wintering in central Mexico was up 144 percent over the previous year.
Every night, 22 volunteers search for hidden fishing nets that kill vaquitas.
Mexico is going full-steam ahead with the new rail network that crosses into the heartland of the indigenous Maya. The Mayan Train, or Tren Maya in Spanish, is one of the new government’s flagship infrastructure projects, and Fonatur tourism board chief Rogelio Jiménez Pons says work on the route through five states in the east…
A college professor and his wife escaped Maine’s polar vortex to meet feathered friends at Rio Lagartos
The so-called vaciante marina, bringing the tideline far from its normal point, roused the curiosity and even fear among the public.
Merida, Yucatan — Hungry for more clues to the earth’s history and the demise of the dinosaurs, the leader of a previous expedition wants to drill again to learn about the Chicxulub crater. Jaime Urrutia Fucuguachi, a researcher at the UNAM Institute of Geophysics, confirmed that there is a strong possibility of a second expedition. A…
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