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

In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture. It was early on a Sunday morning, and I was in the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, 28km south ...

The village of San Gregorio Atlapulco is one of the only remaining communities that farms in the Aztec agricultural tradition. Located in Mexico City’s Xochimilco municipality, San Gregorio Atlapulco ...

Modern-day Mexico was formed in 1521, when a 500-strong group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, alongside thousands upon thousands of indigenous Mexicans, seized control of the centre of ...

In 2023, Dutch software developer Thomas Kole unveiled a "3D reconstruction of the Mexica capital," Mexico-Tenochtitlán -- the most detailed image of the ancient city produced in the last five ...

What is now Mexico City was once covered in canals and artificial islands built upon the shallow lake beds of the Valley of Mexico. Known as chinampas, these amphibious territories developed by the ...

A squadron of pelicans plunges into the waters of Lake Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. Standing in the shallows a pair of elegant white herons gaze at a group of tourists on a garish, flat-bottomed ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. What first comes to mind for most of us when we think of the Aztecs is human sacrifice, conquest and ...