It’s dry. It’s dead. It’s derelict. It’s a blight on the community instead of what it should be.” Damian, a high school teacher, often runs on a bike path beside the parched riverbed ...

Because really, this is a product of climate change.” Summer storms quickly brought moisture back to some of the dry riverbed, but Baca warns that the monsoons provide a somewhat false hope ...

For much of the day, the dry riverbed becomes an inferno underfoot. The roughly 100 residents of Paraizinho "are tackling that beach on foot to transport the food and water we need here.