An “oasis of hope” in the Borderlands As conservation biologists and hydrologists who have collectively worked on the border at Quitobaquito Springs in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for over four decades, we wish to express our deep concerns about one of the most biodiverse and culturally significant oasis habitat...

When I grew up living near the U.S./Mexico border, the Tohono O’odham elders taught me that our sacred mountains and springs—as well as our most important spiritual ceremonies and pilgrimages—occur on both sides of the international boundary. We traveled to areas not knowing we were in another country, but knowing...

During the 1960-70’s, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) developed into the preeminent public health agency in the United States and the world.  Whenever a state health department or a foreign health ministry had an infectious disease problem on which they wanted assistance, they called on CDC.  Inherent in the...

Health officials on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border are working jointly to combat a severe outbreak of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, along the neighboring border communities of Yuma and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora. The number of confirmed positive cases has grown rapidly since the...

I would like to express my deep concern and opposition to further extension of the border wall from the Colorado River eastward toward the Tinajas Altas Mountains, after personally seeing the damage done by Homeland Security’s construction contractors to other sacred sites, shrines and burials at Quitobaquito Springs. There will...