USDA awards over $4.7M to support 'climate-smart' food production Dec. 20, 2022 The Arizona Partnership for Climate-Smart Food Crops will promote climate-smart food production practices and help farmers reduce water consumption and carbon emissions. Read more at UArizona News Image
UArizona president launches commission to fortify the future of agriculture and food production Dec. 8, 2022 University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins has formed a commission tasked with identifying solutions to food and economic insecurity in the state and around the world. Read more at UArizona News Image
Jacob Blais: Live Sustainably with Less Tension Dec. 2, 2022 Jacob is studying Natural Resources with an emphasis in Global Change Ecology and Management. He is an Intern Advisor for the Arizona NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Internship Program and a Liverman Scholar. He is researching soil respiration in the Sonoran Desert to investigate how different monsoonal precipitation patterns will affect soil carbon storage. Read more Image
An Afternoon with SEEDS Nov. 21, 2022 Q: What’s better than one program that supports diverse students in developing as environmental professionals? A: THREE programs that support diverse students in their development as environmental professionals, gathered together on a late fall afternoon in Tucson, having a picnic! Read more Image
Researchers explore how to protect the environment while helping those living in poverty Nov. 10, 2022 Ensuring all people have access to minimum resources and services, while also safeguarding the stability of the Earth's environment, will require significant societal transformations, a new study finds. Read more at UArizona News Image
Lexis Meza: Inspired to Educate Nov. 4, 2022 Lexis is a sustainable student who is very involved across campus. Lexis is the co-chair of the educational outreach committee for SFS, the lead Spring Environmental Summit planner, the Earth Grant Program Assistant, a Bio/Diversity Project intern, and a Doris Duke Conservation Scholar. Read more Image
'Virtually every child' to face frequent heat waves by 2050, UNICEF says Oct. 26, 2022 A new report from UNICEF estimates that nearly all the world's children – more than 2 billion – will be exposed to high heat-wave frequency by 2050. That is about 1.5 billion more children than are exposed now. "The models tell us this is the case, as does empirical lived experience," Lauren Gifford, a research scientist at the University of Arizona, said in response to the report. "Children now and children who haven't been born yet are going to exist in the world in very different ways, and some of those ways we can't even conceive yet." Read more at UArizona News
With $6M grant, researchers will explore how Southwest communities can best adapt to climate change Oct. 25, 2022 UArizona researchers are furthering their efforts to examine how water, aridity and heat impact communities in the American Southwest, and how those challenges affect human health. Read more at UArizona News Image
Karletta Chief, 2022 Woman of Discovery Oct. 19, 2022 Karletta Chief, University of Arizona Distinguished Professor and Extension Specialist and Director of the AIRES Indigenous Resilience Center, was honored with a Wings WorldQuest 2022 Women of Discovery Award today in New York City, New York. She joined four other unique and impactful women in receiving this year's award. Read more Image
Maya Tainatongo: Down to Earth Oct. 7, 2022 Maya's favorite environment-related experience is the summer she lived in Colorado and interned at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. She conducted her own research project and hiked in the mountains every day! Maya specialized in stream ecology and aquatic insect research to study how they related to food webs in alpine streams. Read more Image