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    Giant Sloth Fossils, Mayan Relics Discovered in World’s Largest Flooded Cave

    Giant Sloth Fossils, Mayan Relics Discovered in World’s Largest Flooded Cave

    Archaeologists exploring the world’s largest flooded cave—discovered last month just outside of Tulum, Mexico—have found an impressive treasure trove of relics. The vast, 216-mile cave actually connects two of the largest flooded cave systems in the world, the 164-mile-long Sistema Sac Actun and the 52-mile-long Dos Ojos system. Aside from an extensive reserve of freshwater […]

    How to Reduce Methane Emissions From the Oil and Gas Industry Across North America

    How to Reduce Methane Emissions From the Oil and Gas Industry Across North America

    By Kate Konschnik and Sarah Marie Jordaan U.S. natural gas production has boomed in the past decade, driving gas prices sharply downward. Natural gas has become a competitive choice for electricity generation, edging out coal. Because gas contains less carbon than coal, greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have dropped, and the U.S. grid has […]

    Mexico Creates Vast Marine Sanctuary Around ‘Galápagos Islands of North America’

    Mexico Creates Vast Marine Sanctuary Around ‘Galápagos Islands of North America’

    Mexico has created North America’s largest marine park—the size of Illinois—in the Pacific Ocean to protect hundreds of species including rays, whales and sea turtles, an area referred as the Galápagos Islands of North America. The announcement on Friday by Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto fulfilled an October promise to transform a 57,000-square mile swath […]

    Mexico Revokes Monsanto’s Permit to Market GMO Soy in Seven States

    Mexico Revokes Monsanto’s Permit to Market GMO Soy in Seven States

    Monsanto has lost its permit to commercialize genetically modified (GMO) soy in seven Mexican states, Reuters reported. Mexico’s agriculture sanitation authority SENASICA revoked the permit—a decision that the St. Louis-based seed giant called unjustified. Citing a SENASICA document, Mexican newspaper Reforma reported that the permit was revoked after authorities detected Monsanto’s GMO soy in unauthorized […]

    DiCaprio Teams With Mexican Government to Save World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal

    DiCaprio Teams With Mexican Government to Save World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal

    Today is World Oceans Day, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Leonardo DiCaprio and telecom tycoon Carlos Slim just signed a memorandum of understanding committing to conserve marine ecosystems in the Gulf of California and to save the vaquita porpoise—the most endangered marine mammal in the world. The region’s rampant overfishing has driven the native […]