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Stories by Omar Vidal

  • Templo Mayor cenote, Quintana Roo

    Inside a cenote — the doorway to Mexico’s underworld

    Omar Vidal gets a close-up view of life in eternal darkness and the mysterious aquatic world underneath the Yucatán Peninsula.

    May 3
  • Ukraine residence bombed in Feburary 2022

    To the brave people of Ukraine, a society in desperate need of peace

    The heartbreaking images of suffering coming out of the war-torn country as Russia invades are the stuff of the writer’s nightmares.

    March 17
  • monarch butterfly

    The biggest threat to Mexico’s monarch butterflies: human indifference

    As 2022 begins, Omar Vidal issues a plea to everyone to get to know these pollinators and save them and their migration.

    January 19
  • Zapotecs from Oaxaca

    Through prehistory, conquest and modernity, Oaxaca’s magic still beguiles

    For centuries, the Zapotec, Mixtec and others evolved in tune with the nature around them, not in spite of it, something still true today.

    December 7
  • Patricia Espinosa at COP16 conference

    Can Mexico be a leader at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?

    With its recent hard pivot to fossil fuels, Mexico’s pledges at the COP26 global summit may fall seriously short in fighting global warming.

    November 1
  • María Elena Álvarez-Buylla

    Five questions for Conacyt’s director about Mexico’s offensive on science

    Scientist Omar Vidal has some burning questions for María Elena Álvarez-Buylla about the nation’s current state of academic freedom.

    September 30
  • Simon Bolívar

    Mexico and Colombia’s commonalities include both blessings and curses

    The two Latin American countries have shared a centuries-old fraternity; they also share similar labyrinthian sociopolitical challenges.

    September 17
  • Green turtle on El Cuyo beach in Yucatán

    A close encounter with nesting sea turtles in El Cuyo proves magical

    Researchers take the overnight shift in El Cuyo, Yucatán, to mark the nests of female green turtles who arrive in the dark to lay their eggs.

    August 17
  • Teta Kawi, 20 kilometers northwest of Guaymas.

    Guaymas: the pearl of the Sea of Cortés where I surrendered my heart

    The port city has seen Spanish conquerors, a French pirate, and John Steinbeck. Its diverse natural landscape will take your breath away.

    August 2
  • A baby leatherback sea turtle.

    On Earth Day, let’s rejoice in the immensity of the feminine

    Omar Vidal asks us to ponder the female members of the animal kingdom, many of whom endure great adversity to continue the species.

    April 22
  • The Cuatrociénegas Valley is believed to contain clues to how life evolved.

    NASA’s hunt for life’s origins on Mars echoes an ongoing search in Mexico

    In the Chihuahuan Desert’s Cuatrociénegas Valley, Mexican scientists are studying the evolution of extraterrestial life in the universe.

    March 11
  • Preparing shellfish in Bahia Asunción, Baja California Sur. Aldo Santoro

    Mexico’s fishermen adapt, innovate while government lags behind: expert

    Omar Vidal interviews sustainable fisheries advocate Jorge Torre on the ‘mismatch’ between industry needs and the pace of federal policy.

    February 25
  • A vaquita porpoise trapped in a fishermen's net.

    El Golfo de Santa Clara and the seaside gold rush

    The upper Gulf of California is haunted by poverty and the despair born of decades of government neglect and mismanagement.

    January 5
  • The president and Víctor Manuel Toledo

    Mexico lost two years on environment but AMLO gets benefit of doubt

    AMLO’s election raised environmental expectations but today the government’s relationship with environmentalists has reached an all-time low.

    December 14
  • The president waves the starter's flag at inauguration of construction of the Maya Train in June.

    President needs to demonstrate that environment is a priority

    The film Soylent Green triggers thoughts on how the three most populous nations in the Americas see the environment—or how they don’t see it.

    October 19
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