🇲🇽Mexico

Mexico City's last Aztec-era floating farms are being rebuilt as clean-water refuges for the axolotl — and the farmers who maintain them are the conservation strategy.

Heat is not evenly distributed across a city — one block can be ten degrees hotter than another — and until recently nobody could show a mayor exactly which block.

Trained ejido brigadistas clear firebreaks by hand and manage post-fire fuels so their communal forests can survive Mexico's worsening dry seasons.

Installs rainwater harvesting systems that bring reliable water to Mexican homes and schools cut off from municipal supply.

A Mexican NGO trains small-scale fishers to run their own no-take marine reserves and collect the science that keeps fisheries sustainable.

Since 1998, this cyclist collective has been trading car exhaust for pedal power on the streets of Mexico City.

Tens of thousands of Nahua and Totonac families in Mexico's Sierra Norte de Puebla run their own cooperative economy, organic coffee, community finance, housing and forests, outside the reach of intermediaries.

The waterfall at El Salto once drew honeymooners; industrial discharge turned it into a wall of chemical foam, and every one of 178 residents tested had heavy metals in their body.

A Baja California NGO clears rats, cats and goats off Mexico's islands, and formerly extinct seabird colonies are returning by the thousands.