Yucatan

Soccer is like a religion for many Mexicans, but for many in the Yucatán Maya community, baseball is also a top sport. And some Mayas have brought that passion with them to California. There’s even a mostly Maya baseball league there.

Friday is the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. It’s also a day that’s generated a lot of buzz among historians and new age spiritualists. They say an ancient Mayan calendar predicts the end of an era or possibly even an apocalypse. So for our Geo Quiz we’re looking for the name of a historic […]

An abandoned Mayan city in northern Guatemala is the subject of today’s geo-quiz. Its name is derived from the millions of bats that live there. Aaron Schachter learns more about the city and its bats, from Brown University archaeologist, Stephen Houston.

For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for an island that is site of one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, a river that burrows for five miles through a cave under a mountain. The 300 mile long island is one if the islands of the Philippines and lies between the South China Sea […]

Matt Binder reports from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on the efforts of some Mayan farmers to preserve their centuries-old method of rotating, slash-and-burn agriculture. The Mexican government wants to convert much of the Yucatan jungle into conventional modern cropland, but the Maya say their traditional method serves their needs better while protecting the forest.