Keeping landscapes connected can help protect wild animals and plants. In the US Southwest, border wall construction is closing off corridors that jaguars and other at-risk species use.
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Articles on US-Mexico border wall
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Nearly 700 species of flightless mammal could be barred entry to cooler habitats due to national borders by 2070.
Millions of miles of fences crisscross the Earth’s surface. They divide ecosystems and affect wild species in ways that often are harmful, but are virtually unstudied.
A nonprofit law expert explains the federal case against the former Trump adviser.
Declaring an issue is a national emergency lets presidents act quickly and with few constraints. But once they get this kind of power, it’s hard to take it back – and it can produce bad policies.
Border wall construction through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.
The conviction of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who evaded justice in Mexico, is a win for US officials. But it’s a pyrrhic victory in the war on drugs.
A scholar who travels regularly to the US-Mexico border finds ecological links and a community on the other side that welcomes American visitors.
How man-made barriers can harm humanity for centuries.
The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
After 1.3 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa came to Europe in 2015, many countries built fences or closed their ports. That has pushed migrants to take riskier routes into the EU.
With its tales of bloody violence, corruption, international trade and entrepreneurial innovation, Guzmán’s trial offers a telenovela-style explainer on Mexican cartels and their American clients.
Because many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, the loss of even one can be a big financial blow for a family.
We asked experts on ethics, constitutional law and European political history to analyze Trump’s Oval Office address. Here’s what they heard in his speech about ‘crisis’ at the US-Mexico border.
From south of the border, Trump seems to be using DACA as a diplomatic weapon in his ongoing power struggle with the Mexican government. That just hurts 800,000 people and helps President Peña Nieto.
Instead of building a wall on the US-Mexico border, a landscape architect calls for restoring the Rio Grande and turning its course into an international park – an idea first proposed in the 1930s.
Activist art makes clear that the border dynamic is a lot more complex than Trumps’s ‘them/us’ rhetoric.
Running the US, it turns out, is nothing like running a business.
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Political Science, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations, Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
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Visiting Professor of International Affairs, Hamilton College
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Professor, History and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Arkansas
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Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowdoin College
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Assistant Professor in Psychology, The University of Southern Mississippi
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Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sheffield
