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In an effort to counter proposals to allow oil and gas drilling as close as three miles from shore, Manatee County commissioners have written a letter opposing drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said. “There is consensus among elected...

40th Union World Conference on Lung Health, 3-7 December 2009, Mexico 30 November 2009 Cancun — Organized by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease under the theme, "Poverty and lung health", the 40th Union World Conference on Lung...

S Bison have returned to Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities releasing 23 donated U.S. animals in northern Chihuahua state. Bison have returned to Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities...

The body of Mexican radio journalist José Emilio Galindo Robles was found yesterday at his home. Gagged and with his hands tied were to a bed, it appears that he died from a severe blow to the head. As director...

14 IST Elinor Ostrom, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Economics, awarded for her path-breaking work on governance of common pool resources such as land and forests, believes that part of the solution to many of the world's key...

The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests. Some 8,000 oyamel fir trees -- the butterflies' unique mountain habitat each winter --...

The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season is essentially over, even though it officially ends on Nov. 30. So says Jeff Masters, chief meteorologist of Weather Underground, an online weather site; and William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster.

This work in Mexico and elsewhere is enormously important," says Patricia Escalante, chair of the Institute's zoology department. "Barcoding is a tool to identify species faster, more cheaply, and more precisely than traditional methods," Escalante stated in a press release....

Plant Will Not Take Waste From Mexico Published: November 19, 2009 A southeast Texas industrial disposal facility has suspended its plan to import and incinerate up to 20,000 tons of hazardous waste from Mexico , a company official said.