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 …
Confused reporting by emergency officials about the extent of danger and inadequate disaster management, brought to light official apathy recently in Mexico City, as the volcano Popocatepetl, spewed a giant cloud of ash over the city. High ranking officials denied that they issued a red alert that the volcano may …
INSTEAD of lowering environmental degradation along the 3,218-km Mexico-us border, the North American Free Trade Agreement has only worsened the problem. The Mexican region has become an ideal location for polluting us companies because of weak enforcement of environment4l laws. The town of Matamoros on the Mexican side of the …
A prominent environmental group in Mexico city recently accused drug traffickers of poisoning at least 60 dolphins whose rotting carcasses were washed up on the beaches of western Mexico early this year. Homero Aridjis, leader of the 'Group of 100', said that the environmentalists were demanding an investigation into the …
Air pollution in this country has plagued its residents for over a decade now. in spite of the many measures initiated to tackle the problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked the air of Mexico City as the most contaminated in the world. In each of the six categories …
Poverty's black face crept in view yet again as hundreds of local poor, alerted to the fact that marine guards had left their posts, descended recently on the Escobilla beach
The Mexican state of Coahuila will be an experimental area to test a new rain-making technique. Until now, creating rain involved flying over a supercooled cloud at a high altitude and sprinkling it with silver iodide crystals, which have a structure similar to that of ice. However, this method increases …
The eastern Pacific is now teeming with dolphins, thanks to an American embargo against the tuna. The six-year embargo forced fisherfolks in Ensenada, Mexico, and other eastern Pacific ports to take steps to end the slaughter of dolphins while harvesting tuna. Hundreds of dolphins used to get snared and killed …
WHEN Mt Vesuvius erupted in Italy, the town of Pompeii vanished. All that was left behind were crusts of dried lava. For long, scientists have held that it is the run-off streams of lava from volcanic eruptions that kills thousands of people, sweeping away entire civilisations. But recent reports have …
Strange creatures are on the prowl in Mexico, attacking goats, lambs, roosters and even humans in the night. The attackers drain the blood of their victims leaving large fang marks on the animals' necks as an evidence of the attack. A farm worker in the western state of Jalisco who …
IN WHAT could be a dream come true for farmers, especially from poor countries, scientists have announced that they are just a, step away from creating a maize plant that can be planted year after year without using a new seed. Five years and a study of 50,000 plants later, …
WHILE air pollution and smog are nothing new to them, Mexico City residents now have to contend with a disaster which could leave them literally dying of thirst. The aquifer, the main source of water for the capital city's nearly two million inhabitants, is running dry'. Says Alfonso Martinez Baca, …
WITH the recent finding of a rare dinosaur fossil, scientists at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are trying to create a sound that may resemble the call of the dinosaur. Sounds of roars, screeches and grunts of celluloid dinosaurs have been dismissed by palaeontologists as mere works …
It seems to be Nigeria all over again in the state ofTabasco near Mexico City. Protestors have blockaded dozens of oil wells belonging to the state-owned oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos - Pemex for short - accusing it of environmental damage and corruption. "In, our region, there is misery all around …
The world's most polluted metropolis, Mexico City, had to perforce observe a smog emergency for three days in the last week of January after ozone levels shot up to 269 points - 19 points higher than the safe leveL In spite of clear skies, the smog levels remained high. While …
A rare sudden spell of snow - nearly 12 inches - in central Mexico, has driven millions of Monarch butterflies, which have their winter sojourn in Mexico, to a cold death. The distinct orange and black insects fly every year from their summer haunts in Canada across the expanse of …
ALL-OUT efforts have been launched to safeguard the maroon-fronted parrot, a rare species of parrot which has its home in the towering limestone cliffs of El Taray in northern Mexico. The parrot, distinguished by a maroon forehead and yellow eye rings, is the size of a pigeon and is found …
Stricter environment standards have put the brakes on the entry of Mexican trucks into US soil under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The agreement calling for the free movement of trucks between US, Canada and Mexico should have begun in December 1995. The US has postponed the implementation …
While the Mexican government is lambasting the us for dumping nuclear waste near its borders, it is actually fishing in its own dirty waters. The main polluter has been the national oil giant, Pemex Petroquinuca. Until 1990, there were virtually no laws to stop the pollution. An investigation last year …
THE Mexican government is outraged by us authorities' attempts to dump nuclear and toxic wastes in the predominantly Hispanic Texan town of Sierra Blanca. It has accused the us government of violating the 1883 La Paz agree- ment under which they had agreed tavoid activities damaging to the envi-onment or …
If the citizens of Mexico City -known to be one of the most polluted cities in the world -want to breathe cleaner air, they must first take care of their kitchens. For, Sherwood Rowland, an atmospheric chemist working with the University of California has come up with a startling report …
