Mexico

Child well-being in an unpredictable world

The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …

MEXICO

For long, Mexico City has been considered one of the most polluted cities in the world. But in the past three years the city has made considerable progress in cleaning up its air, said Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez, Mexico City secretary of environment. The city has reduced average ozone levels from …

What s in the barrel?

how does one identify the contents of an unmarked drum? Several researchers have tried to do so, but it has never been easy. Either the process is cumbersome, unaffordable or unreliable. Now a team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has come up with a "sound gun' …

Trouble in Mexico

despite demands by 11 indigenous peoples' organisations to suspend the us $2.5 million us government-funded bioprospecting programme, the University of Georgia has refused to wind up its activities in Chiapas, Mexico. The objective of the five-year project is to study thousands of plants and microorganisms used for medicinal purposes by …

Worst floods

the Mexican Government was forced to declare a state of emergency in four states in the first week of October after the worst flooding in 40 years which killed 15 people and forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 others. Torrential rainfall for a week has caused seven rivers to …

Showing the way

even as the world's population touched the six-billion mark on October 12

Audit of industry

mexico's Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) plans to release an ecological audit of 218 companies that produce lead emissions. The central government of Mexico is under pressure from environmentalists to bring these polluting units under control. If any of these firms, mostly dealing in metallurgy and mining, fail to …

Mexico

A coalition of environmentalists declared plans to build the world's largest salt works near a delicate whale-breeding lagoon as "illegal' and said the owners were guilty of environmental violations. The salt plant will be built at the San Ignacio lagoon in Baja California state. "A new salt plant at Laguna …

MEXICO

Mexican environmentalists have praised government audits on illegal logging in the protected reserves of migrating monarch butterflies. The Group of 100, the country's leading ecological advocacy group, said investigations by the environment ministry had found communities in the central state of Michoacan

Concerns about climate change mitigation projects: summary of findings from case studies in Brazil, India, Mexico & South Africa

The concept of joint implementation as a way to implement climate change mitigation projects in another country has been controversial ever since its inception. Developing countries have raised numerous issues at the project-specific technical level, and broader concerns having to do with equity and burden sharing. This paper summarizes the …

Saving turtles

Environmental pressure group Greenpeace has urged Mexico to ratify two regional cooperation treaties which are crucial for the protection of endangered sea turtles. Although Mexico's environmental laws are more advanced than many of its neighbours, its failure to ratify international agreements it has signed has undermined its attempts to protect …

Death at sea

large numbers of whale deaths off Mexico's coasts were most likely caused by humans polluting the seas, but the real answer may never be known due to government foot-dragging, environmentalists said. Mexico has recorded at least four massive die-offs of whales and other marine mammals since 1993, the latest occurring …

MEXICO

The two-month-old strike by miners at the Cananea copper mines, in the northern Mexican province of Sonora is being seen as a blessing in disguise for an industry hard hit by falling prices. The mines are of significant historical importance, as it was here that the stand between the miners …

MAXICO

Greenpeace, an environment organisation has accused the state-owned petroleum company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), of violating conservation laws by dumping vast amounts of toxic wastes into swamps and forests on the Gulf Coast. "Pemex is the main environmental criminal in Mexico,' said Alejandro Calvillo, a Greenpeace director. The suit was filed …

MEXICO

The two-and-a-half kilometre long x'cacel (pronounced as Shkah-sell) beach, between Costa Rica and Florida, is still a popular nesting ground for the green sea turtles. The beach become a focus of debate on development. The government has sold over 167 hectares of the beach to hotel developers. This has angered …

MEXICO

One of the most polluted cityies of the world, the Mexico City may find an answer to the growing menace of pollution. Due to a surplus in cane output, sugar producers of Mexico are hoping that the sugar-based ethanol industry will come to the rescue of the residents of Mexico …

Edged to extinction

rainforests are one of the most severely threatened ecosystems on Earth today. Every passing year sees ambitious plans drawn up to prevent them from further degradation or preserve whatever little of them might be left. A new study, however, says that small patches of these forests may not be worth …

Hair oil

thanks to hairdresser Phillip McCrory from Alabama, usa, we now have a potential weapon against oil spills - those hair-raising environmental nightmares. Inspired by the media coverage of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, McCrory asked himself a very interesting question: if oil can coat animal fur readily, why not …

Salt of the Earth

Scientific institutions from Mexico and the United States are conducting an environmental impact study to see if a proposed salt mine in Baja California would disrupt one of the last grey whale breeding habitats in the world. The Mexican government and Mitsubishi Corporation want to construct a salt mine in …

Sinking city

mexico City is going down. Literally. The city, in the last 100 years, has sunk more than nine metres. It is still sinking at the rate of 46 to 60 cm annually. This is happening because, as more and more water is being pumped out of the aquifer beneath the …

Mexico

Close at the heels of hurricane Pauline that destroyed parts of Mexico in October killing at least 230 people and rendering 3,00,000 homeless, another hurricane

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