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Mexico

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared

The mining industry is the sector linked to the most attacks against people trying to protect the environment and their homelands.

By Katie Surma

People gather for a protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader and environmental defender Julia Chuñil in front of La Moneda Palace on April 8 in Santiago, Chile. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images
A field camera captures an endangered jaguar roaming in southern Arizona on Aug. 6. Credit: Courtesy of the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center

Activists Decry New Border Wall’s Impact on Wildlife

By Anita Snow, National Catholic Reporter

Tourists snorkel next to a whale shark in a protected area at Bahía de La Paz on January 25, 2021, in La Paz, Mexico. Credit: Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images

Marine Tourism in Mexico Remains Damaging to Wildlife Despite Regulations, Research Finds

By Andrés Muedano

As Climate-Related Wastewater Threats Grow, U.S. and Mexico Sign a Deal to End the Tijuana Sewage Crisis

By Kiley Price

El Paso, Texas (left) and Juárez, Mexico (right) are seen from Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, N.M. Credit: Justin Hamel

Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns

By Martha Pskowski

Captive-Bred Axolotls Were Successfully Introduced to the Wild. Can This Work for Other Species?

By Kiley Price

An aerial view of Monterrey in the Mexican state of Nuevo León on May 1, 2024. Credit: Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images

As Monterrey’s Air Quality Worsens, Citizens Demand Urgent Government Action

By Andrés Muedano

An aerial view of pecan orchards and alfalfa fields on the U.S.-Mexico border southeast of El Paso, Texas. Credit: Omar Ornelas

Border Agency Seeks Solutions With Mexico on Water, Sewage Problems

By Martha Pskowski

A construction crew works on a train station during a hot day in Yucatán, Mexico on Aug. 31, 2023. Credit: Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP via Getty Images

Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People

By Humberto Basilio

The Colorado River flows through El Chausse, a restoration site in northwestern Mexico, on Oct. 26. Environmentalists hope policymakers will keep sending water to these sites after an existing agreement expires in 2026.

In the Dry Colorado River Delta, the Future of These Green Oases Hangs in the Balance

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Paulina Hernández takes time to learn about her new BYD King plug-in hybrid sedan from sales rep Veronica Montoya at the BYD Santa Fe showroom in Mexico City. Credit: Natasha Pizzey

Competing Visions for U.S. Auto Industry Clash in Presidential Election, With the EV Future Pressing at the Border

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino

The Rio Grande winds through the Chihuahuan Desert in far west Texas. Diversions for agriculture and cities have reduced the flow by at least 70 percent compared to historical flow levels. Credit: Omar Ornelas

Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande

By Martha Pskowski

Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum speaks to a crowd after initial results showed she was leading the polls by a wide margin on Monday in Mexico City. Credit: Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images

Mexico Elected a Climate Scientist. But Will She Be a Climate President?

By Martha Pskowski

El puente de la carretera 90 cruza la presa de la Amistad cerca de Del Rio, Texas. El agua entregado a EE.UU. se almacena en dos embalses, donde los niveles de agua han bajado en los últimos meses. Fotografía por Omar Ornelas

La otra disputa fronteriza es sobre un tratado de aguas de 80 años

By Martha Pskowski

The U.S. 90 bridge crosses the Amistad Reservoir near Del Rio, Texas. Water deliveries from Mexico are stored at the reservoir, where water levels have dropped in recent months. Credit: Omar Ornelas

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

By Martha Pskowski

People walk down a damaged street in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico on Oct. 28, 2023. Credit: Dassaev Tellez Adame/Xinhua via Getty Images

Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs

By Bob Berwyn

Bleaching of soft Gorgonian corals had never been documented in the western Caribbean until the summer of 2023. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

NOAA Declares a Global Coral Bleaching Event in 2023

By Bob Berwyn

A network of insulated pipes that carry liquified natural gas from ships to giant storage tanks at Sempra Energy's Costa Azul LNG terminal located about 50 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

LNG Exports From Mexico in Limbo While Pipeline Project Plows Ahead

By Martha Pskowski

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