News
Environmental variability and global change are discussed more and more frequently in news articles and programs as the general public becomes increasingly aware of the rapid environmental transformations taking place around the world. The Institute of the Environment produces general interest articles about current UA research relevant to the environment, spotlights that chronicle the work of IoE faculty, and other articles, including a series on drought in the Southwest. The most recent articles are listed below. Older articles and links to UA News press releases also are available in the News Archive.
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Cheating is a behavior not limited to humans, animals and plants. Even microscopically small, single-celled algae do it, a team of UA researchers has discovered.
Facilities in the northeastern U.S. fail to allow passage of migrating fish from the sea to their spawning grounds, scientists say.
IBM recently awarded a Smarter Cities Challenge Grant to the city of Tucson and Tucson Water, which will work with the University of Arizona College of Engineering on technology to improve water reliability.
A new report on climate change draws on UA expertise and forecasts major impacts for the Southwest.
An extreme cold snap in parts of the Western U.S. is damaging orange crops in California and lettuce in Arizona.
The U.S. Department of the Interior's eight Climate Science Centers have released their RFPs for 2013/2014. The Southwest Climate Science Center, based at the UA, will host two webinars to answer questions about the center, the RFPs, and the proposal process.
Committing to the Food Recovery Challenge organized by the U.S. EPA, Arizona's three public universities have pledged to reduce food waste on their campuses by a minimum of 5 percent over the next year.
Several storms in December drenched parts of the Southwest, boosting snowpacks that play critical roles in the region's water supply.
Five UA faculty members have been named members of the 2012-2013 U.S. Fulbright Scholar program, the nation's flagship international educational exchange program. Among institutions with the highest number of award winners named, the UA tied for second place.
Automated trail cameras set up by a UA research team have snapped pictures of a male jaguar and a male ocelot roaming the rugged Southern Arizona landscape.