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The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon

July 7, 2021

The problem is, it’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work.

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UArizona researchers study COVID-19’s possible impacts on coffee industry

July 7, 2021

Some say a bad day without coffee is better than a good day without it.

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UArizona Receives $1.3M Federal Grant to Study Synthetic Chemicals Posing Risk to Regional Aquifer

July 7, 2021

University of Arizona researchers will track emerging contaminants in soil surrounding groundwater resources.

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As climate warms, a rearrangement of world’s plant life looms

July 6, 2021

Scientists are seeing the beginnings of a sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora.

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OPINION: Cities must plan for heat resilience now

July 5, 2021

Shocking heatwaves in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Canada show preparation for climate-driven extreme heat needs work - fast

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Scientists disagree on climate change pushing trogon's decline

July 5, 2021

This year’s sharp decline of elegant trogons in the face of record drought “is just another piece of the overall jigsaw puzzle that is alarming or should be alarming, regarding climate change,” as Southern Arizona naturalist and trogon researcher Rick Taylor sees it.

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Will fire change Arizona's desert ecosystem forever? Researcher studies regrowth after Bighorn Fire

July 5, 2021

A University of Arizona researcher is studying how fire affects the Sonoran Desert to help our rural/urban interface communities from increasing fire dangers in the future.

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Mega-dairies, disappearing wells, and Arizona’s deepening water crisis

June 23, 2021

When wells run dry in the Willcox basin those who can afford to just dig deeper – leaving homes high and dry as the aquifer is drained.

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Climate change made Arizona's heat wave worse. And it won't be the last one.

June 21, 2021

The intensity and duration of heat are bad signs for the future. 

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County prepares for potential monsoon floods worsened by wildfire scar

June 21, 2021

We’re less than a month into the monsoon, and the Tucson area has already received more rain than the entire 2020 monsoon season. While the cooler days and rainstorms are a welcome sight for many, the heavy downpours have also caused flash flooding throughout the state.

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