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Wildlife vs. the Wall

Wildlife vs. the Wall

A 360° experience
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Criselda Caringal
A 360° Organ Pipe Experience

A 360° Organ Pipe Experience

A desert spectacle — Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has different species of cacti growing together unlike anywhere else in the United…
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Marta Cerava
BEHIND THE SCENES

BEHIND THE SCENES

This is where you will be confronted by the truth, and nothing but the truth! Truth is, however, influenced by perspective. This…
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Namgay Zam
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: blooms, cacti & cryptobiotic soil

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: blooms, cacti & cryptobiotic soil

Desert blooms depend on water so a dry winter means less explosive blooms this spring but that doesn’t stop many plants from flashing more…
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Rebekah Zemansky
Shooting with a 360° camera

Shooting with a 360° camera

A short and rather primitive introduction to the 360° video storytelling technique. Enabled by the Cronkite School of Journalism.
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Marta Cerava
Three Things You Didn’t Know About Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Three Things You Didn’t Know About Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

#1 It has a sister park in Mexico
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Criselda Caringal
Three Things You Didn’t Know About the Wall

Three Things You Didn’t Know About the Wall

#1 A lot of federal laws were “broken” by US border policies
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Criselda Caringal
About us

About us

We came to Arizona, we saw the desert, we met people, and encountered the border.
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Marta Cerava
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Fences through the borderlands

Fences through the borderlands

The wall along the border between the United States and Mexico is not an unbroken construction running uniformly from one end to the other…
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Rebekah Zemansky
The Project

The Project

Three international journalism fellows and an American borderlands reporter telling a story they care about.
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Criselda Caringal
Photo Gallery: Behind the scenes reporting at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Photo Gallery: Behind the scenes reporting at Organ Pipe Cactus Nat...

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Rebekah Zemansky
Before and after — roads and restorations

Before and after — roads and restorations

Aerial views shows how roads affect soil, cacti and other vegetation at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Some roads were intentionally…
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Rebekah Zemansky
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