Hurricane Ida turned into a monster thanks to a giant warm patch in the Gulf of Mexico — here’s what happened
Edies during the hurricane season can spell disaster for coastal communities around the Gulf
Jobs define female power in the home
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Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya
Maya communities’ ability to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as …
Colour of desire
Book>> A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield, HarperCollins, New York 2006
Hot pepper genome decoded
Study opens doors for creating better varieties, with different nutritional values and flavours
Monarch butterflies face risk of extinction due to habitat loss
The number of monarch butterflies in hibernation colonies of Mexico has reached a 20-year low, says report
Wielding the green whip
Mexico can't sell its "dolphin-unfriendly" tuna to USA. Japan faces punishment for exporting jewellery made of hawksbill sea turtle …
An industrial spill might be to blame for an algal bloom ravaging Florida
Some 215 million gallons of wastewater was released into Tampa Bay in March and April this year
The environmental costs of Trump's wall
All that concrete will generate millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions and the wall will ravage a unique desert habitat that straddles two countries
Delhi is earthquake prone
The 2001 Bhuj earthquake was something of a watershed in Indian disaster preparedness. Several state governments, most so in the Northeast, and …
Tropical storms Marco, Laura head for the Gulf of Mexico, spark Fujiwhara effect scare
Simultaneous formation of two storms in western Atlantic Ocean creates Fujiwhara effect scare, that happens when 2 hurricanes combine to form a …
Mexican farmers oppose GM bean
They say government move could cause overproduction of the crop and make the prices fall
Air pollution increases risk of Alzheimer’s in carriers of the gene, says study
The ratio of metabolites responsible for cognitive functions has severely decreased in Alzheimer's gene-carrying children in Mexico City than in …
Helping slum-dwellers to help themselves
Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who …
Spill repeats itself
With the 1989 Exxon leak still trickling oil, the Gulf of Mexico puts scientists in the worst fix
Most toxic contaminants of Gulf oil spill are still out there
Bacteria ate only some toxins released during Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, say two studies
Film review Birth In The Squatting Position
Films>> Birth in the Squatting Position by Polymorph Films 1979 (10 mins, Brazil) The business of being born by Abby Epstein (83 mins, USA) …
North America discarded over 5 billion kg of industrial waste in 2018 and most of it went to landfills
New study looks into waste disposal by 24,000 facilities in Canada, Mexico and the United States
Fish take oil spills to heart
2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may have caused heart defects in tuna species, reducing their numbers
US Supreme Court rejects BP’s challenge to compensation over oil spill
Company had alleged fraudulent claims for compensation by parties unaffected by the disaster
Crackdown: Egg seizures at US-Mexico border go up 300%
Median cost of a dozen eggs in the US was $4.25 in January 2023 — over twice what it was a year ago
Monarch butterfly numbers rise even as scientists sound extinction alarm
Monarch numbers rose to 56. 5 million this year from a record low of 34 million last year
Is time ticking for coal
Business-as-usual will not work to combat climate crisis. Difficult targets must be set to reduce carbon emissions
Waiting for the mud
Mexican vulcanologists are trying to track the path that destructive mudslides, the fallout of an impending volcanic eruption, might take
Dying oceans
Oxygen-deprived zones in oceans across the world have emerged as a huge threat to marine ecosystems