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.
A Mexican conservation group says Elon Musk’s rocket launches from South Texas are killing turtles, damaging homes, and littering Tamaulipas beaches with debris.
Photographer Marni Shindelman’s series Restore the Night Sky illuminates America’s hidden detention centers from an unexpected angle.
“If the U.S. and Mexico are going to agree on one thing, it’s water.”
In Mexicali, where temperatures soar above 120 degrees, organized cyclists are working toward a more livable city, says Denahi Valdez, founder of El Laboratorio de Invención para la Ciudad
A lively conversation about how surveillance tech, created and tested in Israel & the US, targets climate refugees across the world. And how refugees have much better solutions than more of the same.
A cross-border gathering evokes a creative world of “gritty hope” in the face of new wall construction.
Local environmental justice groups have been warning federal regulatory agencies about possible explosions at the Starbase facility for a decade.
According to residents, officials have not produced an environmental impact statement, structural plans, or a cost-benefit analysis, nor have they consulted affected communities, as required by law.
Climate displacement and border enforcement--two dynamics trending distinctly upward--are on a collision course.
“If these bills get passed, there’s nothing stopping other billionaires from creating their own company towns and owning more of Texas,” said Bekah Hinojosa, a local activist.
Taking back the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as a river, not a border checkpoint.
The river is drying up, while Texas's elected leaders ignore the real border crisis.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.