How Mexico's Past Heat Waves Reveal a Climate Crisis

Mexico's heat waves are a decades-long problem, worsening due to global warming. From the 1990s to 2024, cities faced scorching temperatures, causing health risks, water shortages and ecological damage.

How Mexico's Past Heat Waves Reveal a Climate Crisis
Rising temperatures: Mexico's cities are breaking heat records.

Over the years, high temperatures have had a significant impact in different regions of Mexico. The following are some of the events that occurred in the last decade of the last century and the first decade of the 21st century. Likewise, we recall that their effects were recorded and are comparative references of those occurring today. This phenomenon has caused the devastation of Mexico's ecosystem and natural resources, affecting the population.