Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City airport as officials let ...
A general view shows parts of flight terminal on abandoned construction of a Mexico City airport that was scrapped two years ago is now flooded by summer rains, in Texcoco on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, on Sep 4, 2020. Picture taken with a drone.
The abandoned construction zone is now part of a project to conserve 12,200 hectares of marsh on what was once massive Lake Texcoco before Spanish colonisers in the 1600s began draining the water to prevent flooding in their burgeoning settlement. "The restoration began the moment the construction stopped. This shows nature's incredible resiliency," he said.
Birds glided in a pond beneath columns of crisscrossing steel bars that were meant to become a terminal greeting some 70 million passengers a year. The steel will be sold as scrap.
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