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Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’
The Guardian·April 21, 2026
Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’
The rural Texas region, long spared, is being fast-tracked for the border wall amid bipartisan opposition
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‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting Native Americans with their roots
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‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action
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Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
The Guardian
April 18, 2022
Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries.