Spanish influenza made its appearance in the world a few months after the end of the First World War. This disease, incubated on the European battlefields due to the precarious living conditions resulting from a confrontation of this magnitude, spread across the planet with unusual speed. Germany, France, Italy, England, and Spain were the first...
Talking about astronomy in pre-Hispanic times may evoke the image of ancestors observing the stars at different times of their lives, that is, both day and night; during sunrises or sunsets; but we must also consider that this was done during such a trivial time of the day as in the case of this article, noon when the zenithal passage...
Mexico put all its faith in an exceptional generation of soccer players. A group of Mexican teenagers won the Under-17 World Cup in 2005. It was unheard of for a country that had not yet hit its stride in soccer. Among the players was Giovani Dos Santos (Mexico City, 32), one of Barcelona's promising young players. His intermittent talent and...
The tradition of sweets in Mexico dates back to pre-Hispanic times and later diversified with ingredients that arrived from Spain and other countries, their popularity grew as they became present during town celebrations. The portal México desconocido in the article titled: the most popular typical Mexican sweets, Alegrías tops the list, detailing...
LiDAR stands for Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging), which translates as "laser image detection and ranging". In practical terms, it is a surveying technique using laser scanning. This technology started in the 1960s when the laser beam was invented; but it became a reality 20 years later, when the use of the Global Positioning System, better...
During the discovery of the Maya culture in the 19th century and its subsequent study, researchers defined the Maya as peaceful beings living in stone cities, governed by wise priests dedicated to astronomy, believing they had found the utopian society described by Thomas More. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the end of the 20th...
As a result of Mexico's progress in strengthening its measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing since its evaluation of the country's framework, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) upgraded six out of seven recommendations that the country's financial authorities requested to be reclassified.
According to the Semar, more than 3,500 tons of sargassum will arrive on the coasts of the Caribbean Sea, just when the population of Mahahual is overwhelmed in the collection, being in the middle of the season of arrival of the macroalgae. Meanwhile, the only beach tourist destination in the south of the state does not have the support of...
The coast of Playa del Carmen concentrates the largest number of beaches that in the last hours have registered a high arrival of sargassum, with 13 coastal stretches affected by the seaweed. This, according to the Sargasso Monitoring Network Cancun, which reports that Tulum and Cozumel follow, both with 10 beaches with high algae arrivals.
Sargassum arrives massively at Cancun's beaches. The office of the Federal Maritime Terrestrial Zone registered with photographs of large patches of the macroalgae at kilometers 14 and 15 of the hotel zone. In total in the state of Quintana Roo, the Sargassum Monitoring Network of Quintana Roo reported 33 points with an excessive amount of seaweed,...