Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lawsuit is seeking personhood status for the Ring of Cenotes, a group of hundreds of subterranean lakes in Mexico’s Yucatan ...

HOMUN, Mexico (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Beilin said she began this project when she became interested in the relationship between humans and non-humans, like animals, plants and natural forces. Beilin wanted to investigate the extent to ...

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayans in Guatemala celebrated the new solar year with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Kaminaljuyu site in Guatemala City. 18 February marks the beginning of a new cycle in ...

Within the Bay Area's Hispanic community is a group of indigenous Maya people from Guatemala and Mexico whose first language is not Spanish, but a native language called Mam. It is fundamentally ...