By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Sept. 17, elements of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) seized yet another building in Mexico City’s Santa Fe business district as part of its efforts to expand the FGR’s nearby National Park of Justice headquarters, securing the property with seals from the Specialized Unit for Terrorism Investigation, Stockpiling and Arms Trafficking. The FGR announced its
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XINHUA A Chinese cave exploration team on Friday, May 6, discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, in the south the country’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye’s number of such sinkholes to 30. https://v.xinhua-news.com/dsp_AV/avc_video/202205/08/124bc7afe2404e459f0612cd3956c983_2048k_L.mp4 China’s sinkholes are similar to the underground waterways cenotes found in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The massive newly discovered Guangxi sinkhole measures 306 meters in
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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
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