The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades.
Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2021
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Ramona Yesenia stood in her town square with two empty jugs, waiting for water to replace the municipal supply contaminated by a chemical spill that turned Mexico's Sonora river orange.
Environment
Aug 16, 2014
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0
Virgin Galactic's spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert on Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations.
Space Exploration
May 1, 2020
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Location, location, location—it's the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it's been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near water and fertile land ...
Archaeology
Mar 8, 2022
11
215
Roberto de Jesus, a day laborer, stands beside the cathedral in Mexico City sweating a river as he waits for work, while homemaker Wendy Tijerina tries in vain to keep her food from spoiling.
Environment
Jun 18, 2023
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Archaeologists in Mexico City said Friday they have found another section of 119 skulls that were part of the Aztec capital's main trophy rack of sacrificed humans.
Archaeology
Dec 11, 2020
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It was a symbol of the Mexico City landscape, zooming, honking and fuming in the mega-capital's infamously dense traffic. But the beloved Volkswagen Beetle is nearly extinct, a victim of anti-pollution campaigns.
Other
Jul 9, 2015
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46
A small robot has discovered three possible burial chambers under a temple in Mexico's pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, a find that may reveal secrets about funeral rituals in the ancient site.
Archaeology
Apr 24, 2013
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American businesses moving operations out of China and into Mexico would be economically beneficial for all of North America, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Economics & Business
Mar 24, 2023
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The Mexican government said Tuesday that a private building project is destroying part of the outskirts of the pre-Hispanic ruin site of Teotihuacán, just north of Mexico City.
Archaeology
May 26, 2021
0
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