Brooke Binkowski
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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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.
The Peninsular bighorn sheep needs connected habitat to survive into the 22nd century -- and a fortified border won't help.
A groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of an audacious plan to save California's largest lake.
The New River, once the dirtiest river in the United States, might actually have a chance to become an environmental success story after all.
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.
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.
On one stretch of beach near San Diego, the annual Coastal Cleanup Day event became binational.
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.
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.
They have returned to Southern California, soaring over beaches, across freeways, and into the northwest on their annual migration route.
There is no discounting the indomitable human spirit, kindness, and resilience people showed during the fires.