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Brooke Binkowski

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Brooke Binkowski is a longtime, award-winning multimedia journalist. She focuses on borders, the environment and environmental justice, migration, and human rights.
I have worked for CNN, Southern California Public Radio, CBS, and various other outlets, and am now completing a degree in International Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

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Border Bird Refuge
The border wall is a scar on the California landscape, but a string of wildlife refuges along the line show a different landscape is possible.
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The Peninsular bighorn sheep needs connected habitat to survive into the 22nd century -- and a fortified border won't help.
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A groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of an audacious plan to save California's largest lake.
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The New River, once the dirtiest river in the United States, might actually have a chance to become an environmental success story after all.
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It's easy to blame Mexico for the pollution in the Tijuana River. But it originates in the same international politics that impede its cleanup.
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It's hard to clean up a watershed when someone draws an arbitrary line across it, especially if that line is the U.S.-Mexico border.
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On one stretch of beach near San Diego, the annual Coastal Cleanup Day event became binational.
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San Diego's rugged and dramatic beaches are a major draw for visitors and residents alike. Its public transit system, however, takes a little work.
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The global March Against Monsanto made its way to biotech-friendly San Diego, where hundreds showed up to call for the labeling of genetically modified organisms and to protest against a perceived food monopoly by agribusiness giant Monsanto.
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They have returned to Southern California, soaring over beaches, across freeways, and into the northwest on their annual migration route.
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There is no discounting the indomitable human spirit, kindness, and resilience people showed during the fires.
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