Saving Mexico City’s ancient floating farms

Mongabay
Oct 8, 2025, 9:04 am102 pts
This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Mongabay. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — After years of working abroad in marine conservation, Cassandra Garduño returned home to find the chinampas of her childhood, Mexico City’s ancient floating farms, choked with pollution and abandoned. Instead of…

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