The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
"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.
A gas-export terminal threatening the “world’s aquarium” tests Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's pledge to protect the environment.
How the border state became the center of Mexico’s ambitious renewable-energy plan.
An artist and a group of scientists on grieving and restoring Arizona-Sonora’s shared waterway. "It’s enormously inspiring.”
In this reflection and Chihuahua travelogue, I converse with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming U.S. president, the border, and new ways of being in the world.
In this interview reprinted with permission from Yale Climate Connections, The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Center for Biological Diversity’s conservation advocate talks about a military attempt to increase supersonic flights and trainings in the borderlands and how the public still has time to comment.
Hinojosa talks about what it's like to organize against some of the wealthiest, most powerful industries in the world, and win.
A Q&A with Water Policy Expert Kathy Robb on her solutions-oriented report that builds off successes of Colorado river basin negotiations.
Photos and observations from a trip to southern Texas: from boat patrols to crowd-sourced walls, from aerostats and SpaceX to reservoirs with little water.
A wealth of scientific data shows that nonnatural light pollution has severe impacts on migratory birds, pollinators, and nocturnal wildlife, he says.
A report from the banks of the Rio Grande during the “Bridging Borders and Leveraging Water for Peace” World Water Week 24 conference in El Paso/Juárez.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.