TEHUACÁN-CUICATLÁN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Mexico The palenques, or local mezcal production sites, in the village of Santa María Ixcatlán stand unusually empty before the local Day of the Dead celebrations. “Due to a lack of mature agave left [in the wild], men don’t produce as much mezcal as they used to anymore,” explains the president […]
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The Mexican science agency has named its largest optics library in Latin America after world-renowned Slovenian astrophysicist and engineer Marija Strojnik. Part of the Mexican Optics Research Centre (CIO), the library, which houses the largest optics collection in Latin America, now pays tribute to Strojnik's research achievements.
Only ten vaquita porpoises survive, but the species may not be doomed, scientists say. If they can escape death in poachers’ nets, the endangered .