From the air one sees a green sea of dense jungle. At ground level the tropical forest is thin—spindly trees whose stubborn roots are adapted to the pockets of soil that dot the karst.

As he carves through dense jungle foliage with a sharpened sickle, 65-year-old Eliezer Mendez Díaz scours for building materials. He plans to make a sacred altar for the Maya rain god, Cháak, in ...

Today, in their former Yucatan heartland – and especially along ... with 70 villas built in among the mangrove forest and exotic palms, each cleverly hidden and all given Mayan names.

“This Maya train construction is already harming the habitat of jaguars, ocelots, Yucatan spider monkeys and many other ... and assess the train’s threat to this beautiful, biodiverse forest.” The ...