Indigenous communities may play a key role in preserving Central America’s forests, according to a new, comprehensive map of the isthmus.

On Saturday, Oct. 14, an annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse will sweep across much of the Western Hemisphere.

The markets connected people in even the smallest peasant villages with the larger informal Aztec economy of central Mexico.

Likewise, the people of Central America, who once existed on the edges of the Aztec empire, find themselves facing poverty and violence and look to the north with hope. The Aztecs’ wit was ...

Ancient civilizations in much of Mexico and Central America were making different grades of rubber 3,000 years before Charles Goodyear "stabilized" the stuff in the mid-19th century, new research ...