Lake Texcoco’s restoration is by no means immune ... In the Netherlands, Higgs points to Marker Wadden, a chain of five artificial islands built in the last decade to serve as a bird sanctuary ...

Initially, the city was built by the Aztecs on an island in Lake Texcoco, creating a network of canals and causeways. However, after the Spanish conquest, the lake was drained to prevent flooding ...

These man-made island-farms are the last vestiges of a ... legend has it that they were greeted by an unusual sight on Lake Texcoco. An eagle with a snake in its beak was sitting on a prickly ...

Echeverria hopes that the area of the central Mexico City valley once covered by Lake Texcoco can be reclaimed to create a new urban landscape that combines nature with infrastructure. The area of ...

When the Aztecs settled an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco (where Mexico City stands today), they built these floating gardens to feed their growing city of Tenochtitlan. The chinampas were an ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

The axolotl genome is the largest set of genetic instructions that has ever been fully sequenced, more than ten times larger than a human genome. Kevin Yulianto / Getty Images When Lake Xochimilco ...

This amazing architectural wonder was historically located on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. This in itself will represent a technological and economic challenge for the player ...