Rio Grande

An annual environmental initiative brought together students from the United States and Mexico to study water quality and help protect the Rio Grande.

Journalist Jack Herrera discusses the dire consequences that are unfolding on the Rio Grande due to environmental, political, and social factors.

Ben Masters has been making documentaries for the last 14 years.

Colorado River drought gets a lot of headlines, but the Rio Grande is having one of its driest years ever. What a recent surge of water for nature says about its future.

Texas Monthly reporter Jack Herrera traveled all 1,900 miles of the river to learn more.

Hundreds of federal border buoys broke loose during recent flooding along the Rio Grande, disrupting traffic at international bridges and intensifying concerns that the floating barriers could endanger critical infrastructure and public safety.

Controversial buoys installed in the Rio Grande by the federal government have broken free and are floating downstream. The buoys could cause damage to international bridges and other infrastructure along the border river.

The Trump administration is accelerating plans for new border barriers along hundreds of miles of the Texas-Mexico border, prompting protests, property disputes, and lawsuits from landowners and environmental groups.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a new border security project in the Rio Grande — a floating barrier of linked buoys. The effort, known as Operation River Wall, calls for more than 500 miles of buoy barriers in the river along the Texas-Mexico border. There are questions about how the buoys would function during a flooding event.

In the Rio Grande Valley, the river that built the region’s farms and cities is no longer a dependable water source. Reservoirs feeding the Rio Grande have dropped to critically low levels. Cities and water suppliers are being forced to develop new water sources.