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Earthquakes and volcanic eruption make for disastrous month in Mexico

Oct 3, 2017

A string of natural disasters in Mexico has left the country reeling as three earthquakes and a volcanic eruption have ravaged the region around Mexico City. On September 8th, an earthquake registering 8.1 o...

Scientists plan to drill into the Chicxulub crater created by asteroid crash 65.5 million years ago

Jamie Hacking

Apr 13, 2015

Innovation

Chicxulub crater is believed to have formed by a catastrophic asteroid crash, blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs, some 65.5 million years ago. Scientists plan to drill 1500 meters below the Chicxulub c...

protest against missing Mexican students

Mexican police confirms 43 abducted students who went missing in September are dead

Amanda

Jan 28, 2015

World

The Mexican government officially pronounced the 43 students missing since September 2014 as dead, even as the parents of those who went missing reject the theory. Though the remains of only one who went missin...

Thousands of protesters clash with police over massacre of 43 trainee teachers

Charles Omedo

Nov 21, 2014

World

Thousands of protesters clashed with riot police outside Mexico City’s National Palace and threw Molotov cocktails to protest the alleged massacre of 43 trainee school teachers. They demanded the removal of Pre...

Chikungunya mosquitos spread in Mexico, 8 years old girl becomes first patient

Charles Omedo

Nov 16, 2014

Health

Neighboring Guatemala has reported over 400 cases of chikungunya infections within its borders, and Mexico has treated about 10 cases brought from outside its borders to be treated within the country, but the n...

Scientists say Asteroid hit, bad luck caused extinction of Dinosaurs from Earth

Ally Stackhouse

Jul 29, 2014

Innovation

The dinosaurs were extinct due to a combination factors. A recent study which was published in the scientific journal Biological Reviews postulates that prehistoric animals could have survived if the asteroid h...

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