How one Maya chef is preserving one of the oldest forms of barbecue

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Rosalía Chay is one of the few chefs in Mexico who still cooks using an underground oven called a pib to make cochinita pibil. Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD.

Researchers explored pitch-black pits in Yucatán's labyrinthine underwater caves to unlock the secrets of the rivers that provide drinking water to millions

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A diver in blue swims among stalagmites and stalactites in the Yucatán's underwater caves
Divers swam throughout Yucatán's underwater caves taking samples of the different microbes that live there.

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