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Research by heat expert and College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Professor Ladd Keith is shaping climate solutions worldwide.

As one of the longest continuously inhabited places in North America, Tumamoc Hill has drawn scientists for over 120 years in search of answers. Founded by the Carnegie Institution in 1903, the Desert Laboratory was Andrew Carnegie’s brainchild to study how desert plants survive.

Congratulations to Brian Enquist, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Arizona and co-principal investigator with AIR’s Bridging Biodiversity and Conservation Science initiative, on receiving the Ecological Society of America’s 2026 Robert H. MacArthur Award for Meritorious Contributions by a Mid-Career Ecologist.

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and the continent’s wildfires are now big enough, hot enough and last long enough to reach them.

The Agnese Nelms Haury Program has selected eleven University of Arizona graduate students to receive its 2026 Indigenous Resilience Graduate Research Awards, supporting research and degree completion for projects developed in partnership with Indigenous communities.

As recognition of heat risks increases, local governments have begun developing Heat Action Plans (HAPs) to outline goals, relevant information, and strategies for mitigating and managing heat in their communities. The report analyzing HAPs from different regions of the world was co-authored by members of AIR's Heat Resilience Initiative, Ladd Keith and Halley Hughes.

The dog days of summer are upon us. But it seems this year that summer heat has more of a bite. Extreme temperatures are changing everything from work, sleep, sports, and summer camps.

Better governance, stronger partnerships and a solid action plan are key to protecting residents from soaring temperatures, Ladd Keith says.

A research project involving Arizona’s three public universities aims to get a better sense of how much water is in Arizona’s groundwater basins — and figure out how to get more water into aquifers, rather than being lost to evaporation.

AIR researcher Neha Gupta joins Makayla Goos on the Tucson Now desk, to talk about a recently released, groundbreaking project offering solutions to Arizona’s impending water crisis.