Digital codes run the world now, and coders have great amounts of power over society. Enrique Chagoya’s “Codex YTREBIL” is ...

The avocado has long been a staple of Mesoamerican culture, and not just in ancient kitchens. For instance, Mayan belief maintains that the dead would eventually come back as trees, leading some ...

These are among the findings in a new Conservation Gap Analysis of Native Mesoamerican Oaks, published in English and Spanish ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the mangroves off the east coast of Central America, at the edge of the Mesoamerican Reef, the world is divided in ...

Q: Were you scared to be in the path of a 30-foot whale shark? A: Fear is a good thing when working with wild animals. Whale sharks aren’t harmful to people. The worst thing is you might get bum ...

In Oaxaca, Mexico, a young Javier Villatoro would wake up at 5 a.m. to the smell of nixtamal. The boiled mixture of water, corn and minerals like limestone or ashes was left to rest overnight.