The United States-Mexico border should be fully reopened—with people on both sides given easier and expanded access to vaccines in the U.S.—according to a new brief from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Political science
Jul 23, 2021
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The Mexican government on Wednesday announced new measures that it said were aimed at saving the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, the world's rarest marine mammal.
Ecology
Jul 15, 2021
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What characteristics distinguish people who migrate to a different country for a better income from others in their homeland? The fact that formal education alone is not enough to answer this question has been demonstrated ...
Economics & Business
Jun 30, 2021
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Environmentalists and tourism operators on Mexico's Caribbean coast are complaining about mounds of foul-smelling sargassum—a seaweed-like algae—that are piling up on beaches and turning turquoise waters brown.
Environment
Jun 23, 2021
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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
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Environmental campaigners have welcomed a Mexican ban on growing genetically modified maize and the phasing out of a controversial weedkiller—a step that has met opposition in the private sector.
Other
Jan 7, 2021
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The first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX's futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second in Texas on Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2020
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The ability to detect threatening stimuli and initiate an escape response is critical for survival and under stringent evolutionary pressure. To detect predators, fish use a number of sensory systems including olfaction (smell) ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2020
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Archaeologists in Mexico said Tuesday they have identified a ship that carried Mayan people into virtual slavery in the 1850s, the first time such a ship has been found.
Archaeology
Sep 16, 2020
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Two endangered Mexican gray wolves housed at the Albuquerque zoo are the proud parents of seven pups, officials announced Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2020
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