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UArizona Expert on Climate Science and Policy Selected as AAAS Fellow

Gregg Garfin joins a roster of nearly 500 AAAS members honored for their lifetime efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

Planning Professor Ladd Keith On Heat As An Emerging Climate Risk For Urban, Low-Income Communities

Center For Biological Diversity Sues To Protect Mount Graham Red Squirrel

The Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel.

If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?

Great Basin Caves tell a story linking climate change to a “worst-case scenario,” with potential impact on 56 million western water users.

Dog ticks may get more of a taste for human blood as the climate changes

An experiment suggests potential for greater spread of tick-borne illness as temperatures rise

Wastewater testing could offer clues about COVID-19 infections

What most see only as sewage, Daniel Gerrity sees as an opportunity to collect data.

Canadian researchers turn to wastewater tests at long-term care homes to detect COVID hot spots

'It could be like a smoke detector,' said Ottawa researcher Robert Delatolla

How Hotter Weather, Drier Monsoon Seasons Affect Forests

Wildfires have burned more than 950,000 acres across Arizona so far this year, according to the State Department of Forestry and Fire Management.

Major changes in environmental policy expected under Biden

Reclassifying Arizona waterways is among the items on the new administration's agenda

Watching What We Flush Could Help Keep a Pandemic Under Control

The failure to control the coronavirus pandemic has in many ways been a failure of real-time health data.