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Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened
Mexico City’s chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching urbanization.
 
Arturo Hernandez, second from right, poses next to members of The Tree Army, a group that works to improve the urban forest, after breaking concrete placed on the roots of a tree in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
El Comandante Hernández leads ‘Tree Army’ in defense of Mexico City’s trees
There’s an army taking to Mexico City’s streets — the Tree Army. And its goal is to protect and enhance Mexico City’s urban canopy.
 
Sonia Estefania Palacios Diaz, left, and Lizbeth E. Pineda Castro, right, clean the roof of a house used to collect rainwater in the Iztapalpa neighborhood in Mexico City, Sunday, July 21, 2024. (AP Photo/ Marco Ugarte)
In Mexico City, women water harvesters help make up for drought and dicey public water system
Driven by prolonged drought and inconsistent public water delivery, some Mexico City residents are changing the way they get water.