How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters
Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.
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Searching for Sparrows in the Sky Islands
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
“I Wish This Book Did Not Have This Title”: A Q&A with Alma Guillermoprieto about The Years of Blood
A frank and wise account of over 40 years of reporting from Latin America by one of its most seasoned journalists
Listening to the Borderlands
Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.
Seeking Flood Justice in the Rio Grande Valley
Researchers launch a new program that uses AI and collaborative mapping to help border residents in need after flooding disasters.
Telling the Stories of Sonora’s Water
"All water carries stories, voices, and drowned towns. To narrate what happens in a basin, you have to follow its waters' full course." An essay by Mexican writer Diego Rodríguez Landeros.
Fighting for the Gulf of California
A gas-export terminal threatening the “world’s aquarium” tests Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's pledge to protect the environment.
Uncanny Rio Grande Valley
Darkly humorous and surreal, Fernando A. Flores's borderlands fiction heralds the future. His new novel Brother Brontë chronicles deportation flights, government propaganda and a tech dystopia.
What Is Plan Sonora?
How the border state became the center of Mexico’s ambitious renewable-energy plan.
America's Gulag
In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”
Death and New Life at the Santa Cruz River
An artist and a group of scientists on grieving and restoring Arizona-Sonora’s shared waterway. "It’s enormously inspiring.”