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Cenote hunters’ love for exploring the Yucatán Peninsula inspires new guidebook

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Canadian cenote hunters David Palmer and Doris Demers have written a guidebook to the Yucatán Peninsula's most spectacular sinkholes, and have shared tips on visiting some of their favorites.
The Chuburná region in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Activists rally to stop luxury project on Yucatán dunes

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Yucatán activists are fighting a luxury beach development, warning it could harm fragile dunes, endangered species and local communities.
Mural of the execution of Jacinto Canek by Fernando Castro Pacheco.

Meet Jacinto Canek, the Maya rebel who rose against Spanish rule...

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Nearly half a century before the Mexican War of Independence, Jacinto Canek led an anti-colonial Maya uprising against the Spanish in the state of Yucatán, writes Andrea Fischer.
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A Danish firm’s US $510 million renewables project will boost Campeche’s clean energy supply

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The Mexican government helped enable the solar energy-producing, -storing and -distributing project via investment through the public pension fund Profuturo and by guaranteeing customers through the CFE's marketing arm CFE Calificados.
Chuburná

Construction on 14-tower tourist project on Yucatán’s coast halted on environmental grounds

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The work halt at the development site on duneland near Chuburná Puerto, 15 kilometers from the beach town of Progreso, is temporary at this point, as more legal proceedings are to follow.
Dolphin Discovery Cancún

Profepa clears 6 dolphins for relocation from shuttered Cancún dolphinarium

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The move comes amid concerns about the health and safety of the animals, which remain under the care of Mexico’s environmental authority following the closure of the Dolphin Discovery dolphinarium in October 2025.
A man holding a bag wades through piles of sargassum seaweed at an almost empty beach.

Sargassum seaweed levels begin to drop in Quintana Roo after record peak

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This year's sargassum season has been one of Quintana Roo's worst on record, but the buildup is now beginning to decline, according to new figures.

Health investigators rule out any presence of the Cyclospora parasite in Riviera Maya hotels

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Reports that four dozen UK cyclosporiasis patients had traveled to Mexico led to an investigation, but it turned out to be a case of correlation not implying causation.
homes in Guadalajara, Mexico

Supply-demand squeeze could push Mexico home prices up 8% by the end of 2026

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By metropolitan area, Guadalajara experienced the highest housing price increase, at 11%, followed by Monterrey, 8.3%, and Puebla-Tlaxcala, 8.5%. 
Tulum

Tulum regains 5 lost international air routes, a hopeful sign for tourism sector recovery

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Nine international routes from North America will bring winter visitors to Tulum's Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport, giving the city hope that its tourism slump is finally turning around.
On the beach in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo

Postcards from Mexico: On the beach in Playa del Carmen

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Writer Ethan Jacobs sends his latest postcard from Mexico on the beach in Playa del Carmen, surrounded by life coaches, reiki healers and assorted "entrepreneurs."
Sargassum piles up on the shores of Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo.

Seaweed diplomacy: Mexico and Japan to tackle sargassum crisis in new joint program

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Mexico and Japan are teaming up to fight the sargassum invasion choking Caribbean beaches — deploying robotics, satellite monitoring and new tech to turn seaweed into opportunity.
Debi mixing adobe in Ek' Balam

Meet the woman bringing adobe back to a Maya village

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All natural, climate-controlled and sustainable, adobe construction is making a comeback in a Maya village, thanks mainly to the efforts of one woman, writes Bel Woodhouse.