Thanks to an impulse from Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican woman in space, 100 Mexican youths from 13 to 15 years of age are participating in a unique Space Camp, consisting of workshops where they learn a variety of disciplines related to aeronautics and space travel.

Julio Álvarez, a self-taught ornithologist and highly skilled nature photographer, lives in Ahualulco de Mercado, a small town located an hour’s drive west of Guadalajara.

Tequila is conquering the world, but the world is paying a price for it. In Mexico’s tequila-producing territory, trees are cut down, unique archaeological sites are plowed under and for seven years the agaves are bathed in highly toxic pesticides.

As more and more foreigners flock to Lake Chapala’s north shore, the south side of the lake has caught the fancy of grape growers.

A recently published study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City indicates that the air and noise pollution from gas leaf blowers (GLBs) seriously impact respiratory health but are also associated with problems such as cancer, heart disease and dementia—and that children, in particular, are highly susceptible to these hazards.

Between 1534 and 1536, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, a conquistador who never conquered anyone, walked nearly 4,000 kilometers across the American continent, and lived to tell the tale.