When a rotten egg smell rises from the mangrove swamps of southeast Mexico, something is going well.
While world leaders seek ways to stop the climate crisis at a United Nations conference in Scotland, a few dozen fishermen and women villagers are working to save the planet’s mangroves thousands of miles away on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
Women wade through a swamp to plant mangrove seedlings, near Progreso, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct.