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The Institute of the Environment (IE) fosters and facilitates cross-campus, community, state, national, and worldwide collaborations that help explain and resolve environmental challenges and seize solution-driven opportunities created by such challenges.

IE also provides a portal to the internationally-recognized expertise of more than 300 affiliated faculty and research staff across campus and to programs, events, and projects that transform environmental research into useful knowledge for decision makers, consumers, and other stakeholders.

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January 25, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

Chris Cokinos, who teaches creative writing in the UA's English department, pays tribute to poet Robinson Jeffers and his words that celebrated nature.


January 25, 2012 | UANews

"Native Nations and U.S. Borders: Challenges to Indigenous Culture, Citizenship, and Security" examines the policies that affect environmental and natural resources management, indigenous citizenship and crossing rights, and public health and safety.


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January 24, 2012 | CLIMAS

Dry conditions returned to Arizona and the western half of New Mexico after a wet and cool December.


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January 23, 2012 | UANews

Andrew Revkin, an award-winning science reporter and author, will speak at the UA on Jan. 26. The event begins the Clearing the Air: Arizona's Voice for Environmental Science lecture series, which includes talks by four renowned experts on communicating climate and environmental science.