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Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona (Courtesy of Michael Bogan)

How sewage helped restore a desert river

Matthew Rozsa
The US-Mexico border wall is pictured in Sasabe, Arizona, on December 8, 2023. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

A lack of data on migrant deaths

Levi Stallings
Collared Peccary or Javelina in the grass (Getty Images/G Parekh)

On the javelina golf course guerillas

Rae Hodge
Dead fish on the dry lake bed of Little Washoe Lake on July 15, 2021 in Washoe City, Nevada. According to the Nevada Department of Wildlife, the lake dried up because of prolonged drought. Water levels were also adversely affected by a 2017 storm that washed out a diversion on Brown creek. (David Calvert/Getty Images)

The Great Salt Lake's looming die-off

Eric Schank
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Saguaro cactus blooming flowers (Margaret Kurzius-Spencer)

Saguaro cactus are flowering "wrong"

Matthew Rozsa
Food stylist: Anna Billingskog. Prop stylist: Ali Slagle. (Mark Weinberg / Food52)

How to make the best French macarons

Erin Jeanne McDowell - Food52
FILE - This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows an endangered desert tortoise sitting in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

The science of desert water

Judith Lewis Mernit - Capital & Main
(Reuters/Tomas Bravo)

Death on the migrant trail

Jason de Léon
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The lawn's gotta go

Sean Bernard
Super Bowl Boulevard in Times Square, Jan. 29, 2014, in New York. (AP/Charlie Riedel)

My plan: Sports in the desert!

Alex Pareene
(AMC/Ursula Coyote)

Walter White's desert

Ryan Leas
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