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Tommey Jodie, a former Liverman Fellow and Indigenous Correspondents Program student, was one of the winners of last year’s Planet Forward Storyfest competition. As part of her Storyfest prize, Tommey traveled to Greenland on a grand prize expedition, where she explored the landscapes, histories and Indigenous knowledge of Kalaallit Nunaat.

The University of Arizona has earned the Carnegie Elective Classification for Sustainability in recognition of efforts across curriculum, research, operations and community engagement to embed sustainability into its academic mission.

University of Arizona professor and Hopi dry farmer Michael Kotutwa Johnson is working to close health and economic gaps facing Arizona's tribal communities.

The winners of this year’s AIR Annual Resilience Theme award will unite researchers, educators, health practitioners and community members to address PFAS across the state.

The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews responding to the flames.

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.