Environment
Features
Across The Americas is the newsletter of independent journalism from the Rio Grande Valley, covering the Texas-Mexico region from a global lens.
Data Centers
Valley civic groups want to help set the rules for data centers in Brownsville
The community groups are asking the city to form a data center task force to “include meaningful democratic representation” on local data center policies.
Local Economy
The Rio Grande Valley will pay over $300 million in taxes for Trump's raids in their own neighborhoods
As immigration enforcement raids unfold in South Texas neighborhoods, families are paying in anxiety and economic loss. A new study shows taxpayers in the region will also foot the tax bill in the hundreds of millions for Trump's mass deportations.
Industrialization
Trump revives an industrial refinery proposal on the Gulf amid rising gas prices
As the Republican party fractures over soaring gas prices, Trump asserts “energy dominance” with an oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley.
Food Equity
Assistance programs like SNAP are a crucial bridge out of poverty for many working adults in the Rio Grande Valley
How a SNAP delay ripples through one South Texas household
Food Equity
High-yield harvests amid hunger: The coalition reimagining the Rio Grande Valley’s food system
Despite being an agricultural powerhouse, many in the region struggle to access fresh, healthy food and face some of the highest rates of diet-related illnesses in the country.
Life & Culture
Healing traditions: how curanderismo is reviving cultural connection in the borderlands
Mexican folk medicine is being reclaimed during a time of deep uncertainty in the U.S. political climate.
Food Equity