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.

When does the rainy season start in Guadalajara?

In the 1960s a group of cave explorers from Austin, Texas got the idea that the state of Oaxaca was the right place to search for that really deep cave they had long dreamed of finding.