U.S. and Central American immigrants are converging in Baja California after disasters.
Items by Caroline Tracey
To protect air and water quality, shoreline residents become community scientists.
Planning for the future of groundwater also offers an opportunity to plan for climate justice.
A conversation with the sixth-grade activists behind Utah’s new state crustacean.
Post-Roe, startups help those seeking abortions shrink travel distances and carbon emissions.
The installation at Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art is made from the landscape.
El Monitor Ciudadano de Inundaciones de Tijuana puede servir como modelo para la colección de datos en el oeste estadounidense impactado por las inundaciones.
Tijuana’s Citizens’ Flood Monitor offers a model for data collection in the flood-affected West.
Advocates protest plans for reconstruction of the barrier at the binational meeting point.
Advocates call for healing the rift between scripture and politics.
Officially, the U.S. and Mexico share 11 groundwater basins. A new map bumps that figure up to a stunning 72.
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems.
A conversation with Natalie Koch, author of ‘Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona.’
With a little help from our friends, HCN untangles the complexities of the U.S.-Mexico border.
LA activists are wielding black walnut protections to stop development.
The $250 million commitment will support public health and habitat while conserving Colorado River water.
Slicing across Arizona’s Coronado National Forest, the barrier will stop more migrating mammals than humans.
It’s taken 10 years for the states to reach an agreement, but it may not be the end of the water conflict.
LA’s Echo Park Trash Club supports its unhoused neighbors by helping them stay in place.
Some places in Imperial County, California, experienced 117 days above 100 degrees this year.
En Arizona, los residentes de casas rodantes son más propensos a morir de calor excesivo.
Arizona’s mobile-home residents are far more likely to die from excessive heat.
Amid a shortage of forensic pathologists, Arizona’s Pima County has identified thousands of those who lost their lives in the Borderlands.
‘Even though we’re the ones speaking up, the only landscape we know is something dead.’
A new study warns that California’s groundwater regulations could create more dust, worsening already poor air quality.
But just as their understanding of the phenomena becomes mores clear, it’s starting to disappear.
How a group of ‘scrappy’ locals are working to create Arizona’s first citizen-initiated groundwater management area.
Review of ‘Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes.’
A book review of The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
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