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A long-awaited agreement will address Canadian mine waste flowing downriver into Montana
and Idaho.
Transboundary-mining pollution threatens our sovereign rights.
An immigration journalist on confronting laws and encountering humanity.
Mexicali’s Colorado River Family Album documents what is no more.
But experts say this risks DNA sovereignty.
Stewardship saved a Southern California estuary from development. Climate change is the next challenge.
Migrant deaths in the state have jumped from 2 to 109 in a few years.
Pima County emergency services engage in ‘unconstitutional and abusive practices’ on the border, a humanitarian group says.
‘Indigenous presence is vital to the stewardship of the land.’
U.S. and Central American immigrants are converging in Baja California after disasters.
Tijuana’s Citizens’ Flood Monitor offers a model for data collection in the flood-affected West.
El Monitor Ciudadano de Inundaciones de Tijuana puede servir como modelo para la colección de datos en el oeste estadounidense impactado por las inundaciones.
Advocates protest plans for reconstruction of the barrier at the binational meeting point.
Officially, the U.S. and Mexico share 11 groundwater basins. A new map bumps that figure up to a stunning 72.
With a little help from our friends, HCN untangles the complexities of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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.
As construction continues, U.S. and Mexican conservationists work together to preserve remaining corridors.
Some places in Imperial County, California, experienced 117 days above 100 degrees this year.
Like thousands of others in California, Gurpreet Singh builds a life in the West while reporting to ICE, awaiting immigration proceedings and longing for a sense of home.