Trump’s Wall Would Devastate Big Bend National Park By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Join Nick Paumgarten on a trip down the Rio Grande to understand what we’d lose if Trump’s border wall destroys this ecosystem.
Drowning In a River of Murky Thought By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After his high school friend drowns, a young academic’s mind leads him down a dark path of conspiratorial explanations.
Can Portland’s River Cleanup Correct Environmental Injustice? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Willamette River, a superfund site, was once Portland’s lifeblood. A massive cleanup project could restore it for the communities of color that had long relied on it for food, work, and leisure.
Rivers We Destroy: A Reading List By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Here are four stories on how humans have changed local and regional river systems, and the disastrous and sometimes deadly consequences.