A team of Texas A&M University researchers will soon be recovering artifacts from a 200-year-old shipwreck that lies more than 4,000 feet beneath the Gulf of Mexico, making it the deepest such recovery effort ever attempted in the gulf. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard is leading a team of scientists heading into the Gulf of Mexico for a week long examination of Texas' ancient shoreline to see if anybody may have lived there. picked by Neiako 1 year ago

...and all they got was a lousy t-shirt. picked by kxmk 1 year ago

Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Crabs, eels and other creatures usually found on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico are swimming in crowds on the surface because there is too little oxygen in their usual habitat. picked by deepchill 12 months ago

A 1,063-pound mako shark hooked close to shore in the Gulf of Mexico is being investigated as a possible world fishing record. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

This history of the Gulf War by William M. Arkin draws on declassified documents and inside information It was published on the Website of the magazine Stars and Stripes (a privately-owned magazine, not the US military newspaper of the same name). At some point the Website disappeared and with it, unfortunately, went this important piece of work. The Memory Hole is pleased to resurrect it. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

Authorities in Mexico City on Wednesday captured the second of two inmates who made a daring escape last month from a New Jersey jail, a U.S. marshal said. picked by wags273 7 months ago

Three seal hunters died on Saturday after a fishing vessel capsized in the icy waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, marking the first accident of Canada's 2008 seal hunt season. picked by chinook 4 months ago

At least 200 terminally-ill people from Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the United States have visited Mexico since 2001 to buy a euthanasia drug, a newspaper has reported. The Mexican newspaper Reforma cited Exit International - the mercy killing organisation run by Australian euthanasia advocate Phillip Nitschke that promotes Mexico as a destination for patients seeking to end their lives. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

U.S. artist Spencer Tunick will fill Mexico City's Zocalo square -- the center of the ancient Aztec empire and the heart of modern Mexico -- with thousands of naked Mexicans next week for his latest mass nude photo shoot. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

More than 10,000 camels from across the Gulf will be competing for millions of dollars in prize money at a beauty pageant for the "ship of the desert" in Abu Dhabi next week. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Swedish vodka maker Absolute launches an advertisement in Mexico depicting the US/Mexico border as it was before the Mexican-American war. picked by coldbladed 4 months ago

A donkey has been locked up by police in Mexico for assault and battery.

The animal, known locally as a burro, bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police said. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Archeologists have discovered what they think are ruins of an Aztec pyramid razed by vengeful Spanish conquerors in what is now one of Mexico City's most crime-ridden districts. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

The original Game Boy is one of the toughest gadgets. Rumor has it this beige behemoth isn’t made of plastic, but from the skulls of fallen Gurkhas. If you ever saw one that was broken, it’s because it lost a boxing match with a nuclear bomb — on points.

Here is a Game Boy that was attacked during the Gulf War. It still works to this very day. picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - With beers in hand, hundreds of former patrons Tuesday protested the closing of Mexico's oldest cantina, where Cuban President Fidel Castro, revolutionary Che Guevara and Mexican leaders all once drank. picked by bevissimo 6 months ago

A female Nebraska teacher ran away to Mexico with one of her students. The student ended up being an illegal immigrant. The teacher was arrested, but now the 13-year-old student is stuck in Mexico.

Ridiculous follow-up to this story:
picked by sykeo56 9 months ago

MEXICO CITY - Satellite images show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the entire population with extinction, according to a leading researcher. picked by bevissimo 4 months ago

A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs. The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago