Forest Fires Surge Across Mexico
Wednesday’s figures mark the largest single-day forest fires seen in Mexico in 2024
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Illegal Logging Puts 15 Percent of Mexican Forests at Risk
By KELIN DILLON Because Mexico has lost some 662,000 hectares of primary forest and 4.2 million hectares of tree cover over the past 18 years, organizations like Greenpeace have revealed that more than 15 percent of the nation’s primary forest has been put at risk by illegal deforestation to create fields or pastures and illicit logging practices. “Illegal logging in
Read moreForest Fires Ravage Mexico in First Quarter of 2021
By KELIN DILLON Between Jan. 1 and March 11 of this year, Mexico experienced its worst forest fires on record in the past decade, with 29,559 hectares of land affected by the flames in the two-month period. Mexico’s National Forestry Commission (Conafor) reported the areas of the country most affected were the State of Mexico (Edoméx), with 5,596 hectares, Oaxaca,
Read moreForest Fire Kills Nine in Oaxaca
XINHUA A forest fire has claimed nine lives in an indigenous Mixteca community in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, the National Forestry Commission (Conafor) said on Monday, April 13. The fire began on Thursday, April 9, in the rural village of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, but strong winds fanned the flames on Saturday, endangering the lives of residents in the neighboring community of
Read moreThank You, AMLO, for Aggravating My Asthma
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Who’s to blame for the terrible levels of air contamination in Mexico City right now (the worst levels of small-particle pollution in over five years)? You guessed it: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bumbling band of inept advisers and cabinet members. Yes, high temperatures, stagnant air and a lack of any relief in
Read moreCity in Flames
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Uncontrolled fires in Mexico City and the rest of the Valley of Mexico continued to contaminate the capital’s air quality throughout the weekend and into Monday, May 13, as government officials sought to contain the flames and investigate the source of the blazes. As of Monday morning, there had been at least nine new fires reported in
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