Mexico Abandons Fight against Wildlife Sales
Big cats are among the favorite illegal pets of drug lords
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Mexico Marks World Turtle Day as Species Numbers Continue to Drop
There are seven different species of sea turtles, and six of these arrive in Mexico each year to lay eggs
Read moreThe World Remembers Earth Day
Today, Earth Day is considered the largest secular civic event in the world
Read moreMystery Disease Threatens Mexican Caribbean Coral Reefs
XINHUA Mexico’s Caribbean resort region is facing an ecological catastrophe due to a mysterious contagious disease that has damaged up to 50 percent of all local marine coral species, according to Lorenzo Álvarez Filip, a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “This is a disease of tissue loss in hard corals, and the pathogen is still unknown,
Read moreTren Maya Could Destroy Pre-Hispanic Archeological Treasures
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s ever-more-controversial Tren Maya tourist train project — a 1,500-kilometer railway system imposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that has been widely condemned for threating both the fragile geography of the country’s Yucatan Peninsula and over half of the region’s indigenous flora and fauna — is now facing yet another obstacle in its completion. The
Read moreUnited Nations Declares World Oceans Day 2022
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Over 70 percent of the world is covered in a blanket of rich, vibrant blue, from the depths of which once all life on Earth came. The oceans are the planet’s life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism. And they produce at least 50 percent of the planet’s oxygen, are home to most
Read moreAMLO to Go after US Mining Company for Exporting Gravel
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, May 2, said that he will bring legal action against the Mexican-Alabama joint venture mining corporation Calica Legacy Vulcán for extracting gravel for export, rather than for local consumption. During his daily morning presser, López Obrador said that, from a flyover of Calica-Legacy Vulcan he
Read moreRestoration Project Launched for Mexico’s Coral Reefs
XINHUA Researchers specializing in sea resources at Mexico’s Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute have recently launched a project to restore fish biodiversity in the country’s Caribbean coral reefs. Jesús Ernesto Arias González, a researcher at the center, said:, “We realize this (restoration project) by using various techniques. One way is catching fish before they
Read moreAMLO Claims COP26 Reforestation Plan Was All His Idea
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently the idea of replanting trees to prevent deforestation is a uniquely Mexican concept, conceived by “Mr. Environment Responsibility” himself, aka, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). At least, that is what AMLO had the audacity to claim during his morning press rant on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Asked by one of the few real journalists
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Protecting Mexico’s Sea Turtles
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