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This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it ...

MEXICO CITY — Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, in the winding canals and farms on the fringes of Mexico City, the flower also known as the Mexican marigold has been farmed for generations, and takes the spotlight every year in the country’s Day of the Dead celebrations. Farmer Jesus Cuaxospa works on his farm where he grows cempas chil flowers in San Luis Tlaxialtemalco on the outskirts of Mexico City, Oct. 17, 2025, in preparation for Day of the Dead celebrations. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel) But as 50-year-old Ortíz and other farmers...


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