Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass

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The San Rafael valley in Arizona is home to bears, mountain lions and wolves – now their movement will be restricted. Continue the Full Story

‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office

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Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreak. Continue the Full Story

The US government has neglected Native agriculture systems, so Indigenous communities are organizing their own food hubs

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On the Hopi reservation in the high desert of northern Arizona, construction is underway. A dilapidated auto garage is being converted into a fully-equipped kitchen, food storage areas, dining room

‘I was thrilled and shocked’: images raise hopes of return of wild jaguars to the US

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The young, muscular male approached from the east at about 4am. He paused briefly in front of the motion-sensor camera, seemingly posing for the photo. “It was overall a moment

‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting Native Americans with their roots

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On a warm day in April, Twila Cassadore piloted her pickup truck toward the mountains on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona to scout for wild edible plants. A

‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action

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Near downtown Tucson, Arizona, is Dunbar Spring, a neighborhood unlike any other in the city. The unpaved sidewalks are lined with native, food-bearing trees and shrubs fed by rainwater diverted

Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops

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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. “The

2020 was deadliest year for migrants crossing unlawfully into US via Arizona

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© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Micah Garen/Getty Images When the remains of two undocumented migrants were found in the desert of south-western Arizona last July, one body lay next

My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters’: the race to complete Trump’s wall

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At Sierra Vista Ranch in Arizona near the Mexican border, Troy McDaniel is warming up his helicopter. McDaniel, tall and slim in a tan jumpsuit, began taking flying lessons in

Trump’s border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars in the US

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By the 1960s, the North American jaguar had vanished from the southern US borderland after being hunted to extinction. Yet in the mid-1990s, there was a remarkablediscovery: the jaguar had