After the European settlers drained Lake Texcoco in the 1500s, Mexico City was built on the flat, old lake bottom. In 1985 and 2017, the city experienced significant damage from earthquakes that ...

Lake Texcoco will join 63 other Ecohydrology Demonstration Sites around the world that are working to protect wetlands.(@UNESCOMexico/X) The Natural Resources Protection Area (NRPA) of Lake ...

Researchers claim that many soldiers drowned with their loot in a now dried-up canal that fed into Lake Texcoco, according to Live Science. The gold bar was in this loot, which after four ...

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Discover which cities lead in size with their urban and metropolitan populations, such as Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai and, of course, São Paulo.

Why it's incredible: The lake is one of the largest on Earth, but it lies beneath several miles of ice. Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake ...

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The state capital of Durango badly needs the new Guadalupe Victoria water treatment plant to replace the city's use of contaminated wells caused by aquifer overexploitation.