EditorialLinda Ronstadt's “Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands” which she wrote with the journalist Lawrence Downes in Canelo, Ariz. on Sept. 6, 2022. (Cassidy Araiza/The New York Times)
EditorialIt?s worth it to prep the beans, salsa and guacamole for Pati Jinich?s Sonoran carne asada tacos, in New York, July 30, 2020. food stylist: Frances Boswell (Beatriz Da Costa/The New York Times)
EditorialJenna Lombardo-Grosso, a former Marine, is assisted after smoking 5-MeO-DMT, a powerful hallucinogen derived from the poison of the Sonoran desert toad, at a Missions Within psychedelic therapy retreat on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, March 20, 2022. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
EditorialA giant hairy scorpion fluoresces under ultraviolet light at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum west of Tucson, Arizona, Apr. 7, 2022. (Ash Ponders/The New York Times)
EditorialCut down Saguaro cactuses in Organ Pipe Cactus Monument, where a wall is being built along the Arizona-Mexico border, near Lukeville, Ariz., on Feb 19, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)