Tag: Yucatan Peninsula

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 07:25 UTC

  Agatha leaves at least 11 dead at Mexican Pacific resorts

  

  After entering history books as the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in Mexico's Pacific coasts during May, Wednesday's reports from the area mention at least 11 fatalities and at least 33 others missing, according to Oaxaca Gov. Alejandro Murat.

• Sunday, January 4th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Prolonged extreme droughts could help to explain collapse of Mayan civilization

  

  The mysterious collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization has been attributed to a variety of factors, most notably overhunting, deforestation, and a catastrophic peasant uprising. However the theory of prolonged extreme drought has been gaining ground among the scientific community in recent years regarding the Mayan demise.