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Sep 26, 2025
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Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

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NEWS TODAY In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo Gómez-Pompa believed tropical forests were not untouched wilderness but “landscapes of memory,” shaped for millennia by Indigenous hands…
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