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The Chimney Hollow reservoir will include the tallest dam built in the U.S. in 25 years, but critics ask if there will be enough water to keep it filled.
March 22, 2022
The United States awarded $9 million in energy funding to 13 tribes across the country, including here in Arizona, on Monday.
March 21, 2022
One of the big challenges to a carbon-free grid will be to replace gas vehicles with electric. The Phoenix Zoo has built some necessary infrastructure to help with that transition. A recent study at Arizona State University found that building a clean energy grid will require a lot of charging stations.
March 19, 2022
An important Colorado River reservoir has fallen below a level that federal water managers were trying to maintain for hydropower generation.
March 16, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line that would cross the desert about 60 miles west of Phoenix.
March 15, 2022
North America offers plenty of plants to safely eat. And in Jimmy Fike's new book, "Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America," he details over 100 of them.
March 9, 2022
A company owned by the Navajo Nation is investing in a company that will take over the San-Juan Generating Station to put in technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions.
March 7, 2022
Phoenix leaders recently voted to allow electric bikes on all city streets and agreed to extend a downtown pilot program for electric scooters.
Razor and Spin will continue to rent e-scooters downtown for another year.
March 7, 2022
Persistent drought and rising temperatures have meant less water in the Colorado River system, which is relied on by 40 million Americans. But to this point, farmers in Pinal County have felt the effects much more acutely than others.
→ More about water on the Arizona podcast series InHospitable
→ More about water on the Arizona podcast series InHospitable
March 7, 2022
Unusual weather events from the El Nino/Southern Oscillation could intensify under climate change. Predicting how that might play out requires a fuller understanding of how external forces affect the system. A new study offers some clues.
March 5, 2022
The effects of extreme heat on physical illness and death are well-known. But most studies of its mental health effects are far more limited and regional. New research takes a wider view.
Feb. 28, 2022
Legislative advocates for solar power in Arizona are looking to the federal government for funding, in the form of a $500 million solar energy investment bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last year.
Feb. 26, 2022
Many have felt the urge to leave the trappings of modernity behind, to make a go of it off the grid, far from the rush of urban living, and in greater harmony with nature. Far fewer actually try, and fewer still find some degree of success. It hasn’t always been easy, but one family has found some measure of success in the remote, beautiful Rio Sonora Valley in northern Mexico.
Feb. 24, 2022
The global tally of extreme wildfires will increase by 50% by century’s end, and governments are not ready. So says the latest U.N. report released prior to the Environment Assembly’s 5th session next week.
Feb. 23, 2022
Hundreds of thousands of bears exist in North America, and that can lead to uncomfortable, harrowing, exciting encounters between them and humans. And the effects of drought and climate change, along with more people moving into more rural wilderness areas, can lead to an increase in the number of those encounters.
Feb. 23, 2022
Arizona will be getting a little more than $11 million this year to pay for new electric vehicle charging stations.
Feb. 23, 2022
A new survey conducted by Colorado College has found strong support in the Rocky Mountain region for conservation efforts. Three-fourths of voters would support conserving 30% of America’s lands within the next decade.
Feb. 22, 2022
Predatory birds experience lead poisoning globally, but data only reflect regional exposures and population impacts. A new 10-year study of bald and golden eagles expands that scale — and reveals alarming patterns.
Feb. 17, 2022
This week, the governor of neighboring Sonora, Mexico, said a major solar plant will be built on land donated by a wealthy businessman who has been linked to a recent controversy involving the president’s son.
Feb. 16, 2022
The United States filed the first environmental complaint under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, calling for a consultation with Mexico over protections for a critically endangered porpoise in the Upper Gulf of California.
Feb. 14, 2022
