Rising water swallows the ruins of the canceled airport as Lake Texcoco recovers, a pivot in the land use vs ecological restoration debate.

A partially built airport near Mexico City is now nearly submerged from the overflow of nearby Lake Texcoco, after torrential ...

12,200 hectares (30,147 acres) The amount of land being conserved by a new project to transform a marshy swath of ancient lake in Mexico city into a giant park.The land was originally dedicated to ...

Tenochtitlan , the Aztec capital that flourished in modern-day central Mexico from the 15th to the 16th century, was once a magnificent city built on Lake Texcoco, which stretched approximately 65 ...

TEXCOCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City airport as officials let nature take over in ...

In fact, the Texcoco region has been engineered by humans for centuries as dikes and canals were built to channel Mexico City’s water and lakes as early as the 1400s under Aztec Emperor Montezuma.

According to archaeologists, this artificial waterway connected to Lake Texcoco and functioned as a sort of aquatic highway for small boats. María de Lourdes López Camacho, an INAH researcher and ...

At the center of the emerging park is Lake Texcoco, a historic reservoir that’s largely drained — but if replenished could provide some relief from the city’s water crisis.

Mexico celebrates the registration of Lake Texcoco as its first Ecohydrology Demonstration Site by UNESCO, a designation approved by the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the ...