Water’s absence has fostered urban instability, ecological collapse, and widespread water insecurity. The climate crisis is ...

Elderly Xochimilco resident and activist Amalia Salas Casales — better known as "Abuela Amalia" — remembers when the town's chinampas canals were still pristine. Salas, left, has spent 60 years ...

For centuries, farmers in southern Mexico City have cultivated "chinampas", agricultural islands first developed in pre-Hispanic times and still in use today. But water contamination is an increasing ...

When faced with the seemingly impossible task of feeding a huge population in the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs came up with an ingenious solution about 1,000 years ago. Located in the ...

In the chinampas supported by the university, filters made from aquatic plants are installed to clean the water and prevent the passage of carp and tilapia. Introduced in Xochimilco in the 1980s, ...

Jasmín Ordóñez, left, and Cassandra Garduño, right, cross an improvised bridge in Garduño's chinampa, an island farm built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago, in San Gregorio Atlapulco, a borough of ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands ...