It is estimated that 8 million metric tons of plastic waste end up in our oceans every year. Ocean currents have formed…
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Plastic bottle found inside a fish in Celestún goes viral on social networks
Hector Oxte, a Yucatecan fisherman and his colleagues were stunned after capturing a dogfish (cazón) and finding a plastic bottle inside it,…
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Air monitoring station will be fully operational in Mérida by 2020
“Mérida’s air monitoring station is currently under maintance, in order to have it ready to start working again next year,” said the…
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AMLO will destroy mangroves and put wildlife at risk to build new refinery
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s race to build an oil refinery in record time on land that is alive with mangrove,…
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Yucatecan children paint mural protesting against polluting livestock companies
The environmental devastation attributed to the pork meat company Kekén is part of the issues that are expressed in a mural painted…
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Smog from pollution continues to choke the skies over Mexico City
Mexico City authorities have announced a second straight day of school closures for Friday and extended a pollution alert as a cloud…
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Mexico City officials had to cancel school due to poor air quality
Mexico’s education ministry cancelled schools in the capital and surrounding areas for Thursday due to a siege of air pollution. Weather conditions…
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Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth’s climate. It will investigate…
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“When we destroy Tulum… are we going to continue with Bacalar? When will we learn? ―diver Alberto Fricsione. TULUM Quintana Roo (Televisa).…
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Just two days after clean up operation, locals throw garbage again in Dzityá’s cenote Chen Ha’
Only two days after the cleanup operation in cenote Chen Ha’, located in Dzityá (Mérida municipality), garbage is again found in the…