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The Ubiquitous Flower That Marks the Day of the Dead
During the Day of the Dead, the cempasúchil, or marigold, is believed to guide spirits back home. In Mexico City, people who lost a loved one to Covid use the flower to honor their dead.
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Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened
Cassandra Garduno squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family’s chinampa — one ...
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As Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead, they grapple with what it means to hold on to tradition
Over the years, the tradition has been the focus of the Disney film Coco. A Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City was also ...
Day of the Dead has become lucrative for Chicago flower vendors thanks to traditional marigolds
The flower is native to Mexico and Central America ... which was set during the holiday and won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The new awareness has been a blessing and a curse, ...
Deep-sea creatures — with spiny bodies — discovered in Pacific. See the new species
Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa, named after the Scripps family group that helped fund the study, has a pentagonal body and ...
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Carlsbad Caverns: New Mexico's otherworldly caves with gypsum flowers and 'soda straws' dangling from the ceiling
The caverns sit within the Guadalupe Mountains on the border between New Mexico and Texas ... which formed giant blocks and delicate "flowers" in the caverns. Rain and snowmelt that seeped ...
No One Prepared for What Man Finds in The Flower Pot In His Backyard
A video of an unexpected discovery on a couple's porch led to an outpouring of support from social media users and a happy ending.
Rafael weakens to tropical storm over Gulf of Mexico after barreling through Cuba as a hurricane
Rafael weakened to a tropical storm and is expected to dissolve over the Gulf of Mexico soon, after barreling across Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane.
Mexico's Day of the Dead and other death rituals around the world
Whether it's digging up the dead in Madagascar or a striptease in Taiwan, different cultures have unique rituals to mark a person's passing.The pharaohs of ancient Egypt were embalmed, as were several ...
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Lawsuit Seeks Endangered Species Protection for New Mexico Cactus, Rio Grande Fish
The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for delaying critically needed Endangered Species Act protections for the Clover’s cactus and ...