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Monsoon floods rejuvenate Santa Cruz River ecosystem

July 20, 2021

After one of Tucson's driest years on record in 2020, recent flooding in the Santa Cruz River spells hope for a recovering riparian ecosystem and the water table lying beneath. 

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Cultivating optimism as drought cripples the Colorado River

July 19, 2021

A historic drought has desiccated much of the American West, bringing reservoir levels to record lows and stoking fears of catastrophic wildfires across the region.

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Can the Southwest survive with less water?

July 18, 2021

Sometime next month, for the first time, the federal government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead.

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Stopping arsenic from contaminating drinking water

July 17, 2021

SASKATOON – Researchers used synchrotron light to determine that plant waste could be an ideal, cost-effective method for preventing arsenic in mine waste from polluting our water.

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Buffelgrass battle: What's needed to make sure weeds don't win at saguaros' expense

July 17, 2021

Total victory might be out of reach, but Tucson’s war on weeds isn’t a hopeless quagmire.

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'The West is a tinderbox': Heat and drought set the stage for the huge wildfires burning across the region

July 16, 2021

June’s record-breaking heatwave was the final ingredient needed for explosive wildfire growth. Fire experts say things could still get much worse.

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In less than a month, monsoon 2021 crushed entire 2020 season

July 15, 2021

Officially at the airport, 1.64 inches in 2021 after getting only 1.62 in 2020.

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Ask a Ranger: A.E. Douglass and diaries of the trees

July 15, 2021

Andrew Ellicott Douglass came to Flagstaff as an astronomer. But he spent his time here looking as much at pine trees as at stars and planets. Ponderosa pine, the most common tree, became the object of his research — leading him to pioneer a revolutionary science.

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Colorado's monsoon season is struggling to bring relief to rivers, ranchers and wildfires as the climate warms

July 15, 2021

The North American monsoon has returned to Colorado, and the rain has brought some much-needed relief to some of the driest parts of the state — after multiple back-to-back years of almost no summer rain.

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Researchers roll out new process for lighter, more efficient solar power technology

July 14, 2021

Imagine a television so thin that it could be rolled up like a newspaper, or a thin film that could coat an entire building and generate solar power. Perovskites could make this possible.

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