The fiesta’s over for Mexico’s agave farmers
As a boy, Antonio visited his father’s dairy farm several times a week and helped feed the cows and sow corn. His family, mostly farmers from small towns in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, were ...
After the party, Mexican agave farmers face tequila hangover
From George Clooney to LeBron James, American celebrities have cashed in on tequila's soaring popularity. But in Mexico, ...
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Scientists Confirm Endangered Bats Are Migrating in Arizona for the First Time, Using DNA Clues Found in the Environment
Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...
A Revelatory Way of Understanding the Black Experience
I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...
Arizona adds endangered bat to the list of night-flying creatures that frequent the state
Researchers analyzed saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential hummingbird ...