One of President Trump’s key promises rests on building a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. But how would a continuous barrier stretching from California to Texas affect the wildlife that live ...

In an article in the journal Bioscience titled “Nature Divided, Scientists United: US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity and Binational Conservation,” scientists from both nations ...

“One of the ironies of this proposed fence is it flies in the face of 30 years investment in 100,000 acres on the border,” said Carter Smith, head of the Texas Nature Conservancy. Some 82 ...

They did not carry passports or green cards. Nature has no borders. That doesn’t mean that animals and birds don’t defend their own territories, because they do, sometimes to the death.

So far these parks have redefined state borders for wildlife but not for people. But if the project went further, it could radically decolonize Africa – allowing micro-regions to inspire a new map.

The borders are porous between these nations ... not serving its purposes. Nature dominates the anthology. In an essay titled “Sweetfern,” writer Barbara Chatterton describes a summer spent ...