Editor Nina Chase and report contributors Caroline Filice Smith and Elaine McMillion Sheldon present the report Appalachia Rising and discuss key themes and findings.

Kathleen Kambic charts the complicated regime controlling and managing water in the Rio Grande valley and considers the region’s future as it faces climate change and water scarcity.

Filmmaker John Acosta offers glimpses of life in New Mexico’s Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Miguel Calatayud believes that algae could be the future of agriculture in arid lands.

Tina Cordova, cofounder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, describes her work raising awareness and seeking justice for those affected by Trinity Site nuclear test.

Elizabeth Kaney and Kerri Arsenault reimagine Rumford’s tourist map to confront its hidden histories of resource extraction, pollution, and industrial development.

In this graphic series, artist Nina Elder reinterprets archival photographs of the River Valley to look past its industrial development.

Media artists Steve Norton & N.B.Aldrich capture the relationship of the River Valley’s infrastructure and environment.

In a series of watercolors, artist Tom Leytham documents the industrial ruins of this working-class community.