A lawsuit is seeking personhood status for the Ring of Cenotes, a group of hundreds of subterranean lakes in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Industries including pig farms are polluting these sinkhole ...

HOMUN, Mexico | A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek’s courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” (“It blooms from within”). Deep underground, the tree’s long roots ...

Cultural identity is more than belonging, it needs to be sustained with fresh water in order to thrive. I am a Maya-speaking Indigenous person, born in a small community called Pucnachén, in the state ...

The design for the proposed Maya Museum in Guatemala (via Harry Gugger Studio website) “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos,” Maya human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú said in ...

Across the street from Lake Worth High School, dozens of immigrants sat in a dark room, bowing their heads in prayer. This isn't a church though — the group is gathered at the Guatemalan-Maya Center ...