Borderlands Archives – Deceleration

Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B ‘Project Jupiter’ Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso

By Diego Mendoza-Moyers & El Paso Matters ● Borderlands ● September 26, 2025

Santa Teresa, Sunland Park residents wary of water, power use by the data center advanced by Doña Ana County last week.

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Wolves and Humans Can Coexist, Efforts Across the U.S. Borderlands Show

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● May 29, 2025

Apex predators are critical to healthy ecosystems. These determined biologists and wildlands advocates are out to prove that wolves and ranchers, scientists and politicians can coexist in the recovery of Mexican gray wolves.

Are We Witnessing the Stirring of a 21st Century North American Dust Bowl?

By Martha Pskowski & Inside Climate News ● Borderlands ● May 28, 2025

As El Paso sees its tenth dust storm of 2025, such storms across the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico are bringing closed highways, cancelled football games, car wrecks, and increased hospitalizations.

ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

By Gaige Davila ● Texas ● April 29, 2025

Even with their communities under assault, local elected leaders rising in solidarity are hard to find.

One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley

By Grist ● Borderlands ● April 12, 2025

The Tamaulipan thornforest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border with Mexico. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● March 24, 2025

Last week, the Trump Administration approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next.

BORDER911: The Font of ‘Invasion’ Misinformation Hitched to Donald Trump’s Star

By Texas Observer ● Borderlands ● October 24, 2024

Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges.

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

By James Courtney ● Energy ● August 9, 2024

Environmental justice advocates and community members are celebrating this week after a D.C. Circuit Court finds federal review of two LNG projects failed their environmental analyses.

Right-Wing San Antonio Bloggers Busted for Drug Possession During Militia Border Tour

By Francesca D’Annunzio ● Borderlands ● February 26, 2024

Near Eagle Pass, Texas officers arrested Celeste April Sparks and Jerry J. Pena-Ahuyon for drug possession after receiving information that someone in a caravan was pointing a gun at migrants, DPS report says.

Approved Saguaro Gas Pipeline Could Damage Native Lands in Far West Texas—and More

By Sara Sneath ● Borderlands ● February 22, 2024

Opponents of the Saguaro Connector Pipeline say it would do irreparable harm to sacred sites—and possibly feed an LNG boom—if it is allowed to link the Permian Basin to Mexico for export.