The winners of the 2025-26 AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant will integrate science, arts, and education to work with local community partners in Sonoran Desert wild land fire ecology and conservation.

Karletta Chief, a renowned Diné hydrologist and director of the University of Arizona Indigenous Resilience Center, is the inaugural recipient of the Agnese Nelms Haury Endowed Professorship in Indigenous Resilience.

The Environmental and Natural Resources 2 Building on the Tucson campus, a showcase of the university's commitment to sustainability, is celebrating its 10th anniversary – and members of the campus community are invited to attend a special event in honor of the milestone on Sept. 10.

Karletta Chief (Diné) is a professor and extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and director of the Indigenous Resilience Center. A hydrologist by training, she examines how climate change affects water resources and evaluates environmental health risks in Indigenous communities.

There are a record number of conflicts raging around the world – from Ukraine and Gaza to Sudan and Myanmar. Alongside their devastating human toll, these conflicts are all wreaking havoc on the environment.

The Arizona Institute for Resilience's Water, Energy, and Sustainable Technology Center is expanding partnership with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center is driving new research on practical water reuse solutions for both military and civilian communities.

Dryland farming has been a staple for indigenous desert communities for centuries. University of Arizona professor Michael Kotutwa Johnson discusses how modern solutions to growing crops during the drought can be developed through traditional farming methods practiced on tribal lands.

During the first week of August, the Global Heat Health Information Network Management Committee came together to align strategy, strengthen collaboration and advance its mission of ensuring that extreme heat is no barrier to lives and livelihoods worldwide. The Heat Resilience Initiative within AIR participated.

The Tribal Resilience Graduate Research Awards program was designed in 2021 to strengthen the academic pathways at the University of Arizona for Native American and Indigenous Resilience students and scholars.

Ladd Keith, director of the University of Arizona’s Heat Resilience Initiative within the Arizona Institute for Resilience, has been appointed to Arizona Governor Katie Hobb’s new Workplace Heat Safety Task Force.