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Sonoran Desert

Miguel Paiz Domingo sits on the cement tomb of his son, Misael Paiz.

Misael Paiz, 25, dies in the desert after a 2,000 mile trek from his small village in Guatemala

Immigration

Joselino Gomez Esteban and his nephew, Misael Paiz, from Guatemala left their small village in search of work and a better life. When they reached the scorching hot Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Paiz fell ill and his uncle called 911 for help. But Paiz died before Tucson Border Patrol agents could find them.

The World

With help from a flood, scientists and activists nurse a bit of the Colorado River Delta back to life

Environment

New U.S.-Mexico agreement promises to restore water to Colorado River delta

Environment
The World

Colorado River Agreement to Help Restore Vanished Wetlands in Mexico

Global Politics
The World

Southwest Water Woes

The World

Reclaiming the Colorado

The great Colorado River rushes out of the Rockies and across the southwest. It used to gush into the gulf of Baja California. But agriculture and cities now drain the river before it even reaches its end. Reporter Ilsa Setziol of KPCC reports nature is making amazing use of the meager water that does reach […]

The World

Thirsty Bees

When Jeff Rice went camping in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert this summer, he discovered that he and the Africanized bees that surrounded him had something in common: a quenchless thirst.

The World

Sonoran Desert

Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is one of the most biologically rich deserts in the world. Conservationists are calling for protection of this wilderness. One proposal calls on Congress to create a national park and preserve that would protect three million acres of desert. But, as reporter Jeff Rice reports, there’s something unusual about this piece of […]

The World

Thirsty Bees

When Jeff Rice went camping in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert this summer, he discovered that he and the Africanized bees that surrounded him had something in common: a quenchless thirst.

The Cienega de Santa Clara wetland, in Sonora province in northwestern Mexico, is fed by runoff from U.S. farms irrigated with water from the Colorado River.

At the end of the Colorado, a new rift opens over the river’s last drops

Environment

A plan by the U.S. to reuse polluted Colorado River water that now flows across the Border into Mexico is putting one of the region’s last wildlife refuges, and a number of Mexican farms, at risk.