Environment

The View on Global Warming and Migration From Guatemala: A Q&A with Juan Jose Hurtado Paz y Paz

"In the Mayan language the word migrant does not exist. What exists is el caminante, el viajero, ‘the walker’ or ‘the traveler.’"

Nature Has No Borders: A Live Podcast with Erick Meza of Sierra Club Borderlands

We discuss the history of The Border Chronicle, the environmental impacts of the wall, and how solutions to border woes might be in the flora and fauna before our eyes.

Reporter’s Notebook: Arivaca’s Mundane Killing Field

A reportage about summer in the rural Arizona borderlands through the eyes of hawks, humanitarians, migrants, and migra.

Drought and Doubt on the Rio Grande: A Q&A with Watershed Scientist Martin Castro

As the Rio Grande dries up, Laredo, Texas, could run out of water by next spring. Communities downstream are already going dry.

The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis

Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited "tributary societies to the US," while that "sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched."

Climate Disaster, Displacement, and Divides: A Podcast with Amali Tower

“Now more than three times as many people are displaced by climate disasters and extreme weather events than conflict or violence.”

The Climate Border Industrial Complex

How the border industry benefits from climate displacement and protects the polluters.

Defund the Global Climate Wall

To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.

For the US, the Climate Plan Is More Walls and Armed Agents at the Border