When you compare how movies and TV treat Mesoamerican culture and mythology to how they treat the Ancient Greek world, it’s not hard to see the difference. (Though we won’t get too deep into the ...

One of the two volcanoes that formed Ometepe Island looms over Nicaragua’s Lake Cocibolca—also known as Lake Nicaragua. The island was at the center of a cultural region known to scholars as Greater ...

Move over, Indiana Jones. In her undergraduate work authenticating the Mesoamerican greenstone collection at BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures, anthropology student Chloe Burkey developed an eagle ...

From massive hotel development through the agriculture industry, humans are destroying the second largest barrier reef in the world: the Mesoamerican Reef. Although global climate change and its ...

Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. They located the ruins by analyzing 3D mapping data collected from the air using lasers. These sites ...

The Healthy Reefs Initiative released its report card on the state of the Mesoamerican Reef. In the last decade, the grade has risen from poor to fair. The Mesoamerican Reef runs along about 1,000 ...

The Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) is the second longest barrier reef in the world, only surpassed by the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. How can the cost of managing a network of protected areas be ...

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The condition of the world's second-largest coral system, the Mesoamerican Reef stretching from Mexico to Central America, has taken a turn for the worse and faces further ...

Editor’s Note: This story was identified by Patricia Zurita, who is guest editor for Call to Earth’s “Nature’s Highways” theme. For sharks, turtles and rays in the Caribbean, the Mesoamerican Reef – ...

Mesoamerican cuisine is inspired by a wide range of culinary traditions, creating a fusion that blends the best of many cultures. It's the inspiration behind a local chef's company, "Proyecto Xilonen" ...

Corals are romantic animals. Among varieties such as the elkhorn and boulder, the males and females wait all year long, until there is a full summer moon, to reproduce. Each coral simultaneously ...