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Major bookseller announces new South Texas location
Barnes & Noble is opening a new store at Sunrise Mall in Brownsville, marking the first corporate bookstore in Cameron County ...
One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of ...
Lower Rio Grande listed among Top 10 most endangered
The lower section of the Rio Grande in South Texas has been named one of the most endangered rivers in the United States.
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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Tamaulipan thornforest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border with Mexico. Restoring even a fraction of ...
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A ‘thorn forest’ once covered 1 million acres in the Rio Grande Valley. This man is trying to bring it back
The town sits in the Rio Grande ... the Valley embrace green infrastructure. Although many swales and basins remain verdant ...
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Texas’ Rio Grande Valley didn’t see last week’s historic storms coming
Big storms have hit the Rio Grande Valley region in South Texas before. The most recent in Saldaña’s memory was 2018. March ...
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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The town sits in the Rio Grande Valley, at the convergence of the Central ... push to use native vegetation for runoff control. Brownsville, the region’s largest city, is planting a “pocket ...
Nonprofits helping Rio Grande Valley residents recover from flooding
About 60 residents showed up Tuesday for the first of five town hall meetings held by La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) to ...