At the University of Arizona, monsoon season is also a time for friendly competition. Returning for a fifth year is Southwest Monsoon Fantasy Forecasts, a game inspired by fantasy football and March Madness that allows participants to estimate the amount of rainfall the monsoon will bring each month to a handful of cities throughout the Southwest.

At the University of Arizona Campus Agricultural Center, in the shadow of Tucson’s craggy Catalina Mountains, the traditionally planted Hopi cornfield is out of place. “This corn isn’t where it belongs,” says Michael Kotutwa Johnson, associate faculty in the Indigenous Resilience Center within the Arizona Institute for Resilience, and member of the Hopi tribe farming his ancestral land 300 miles north. “The corn and I are on a mission.” 

An informal, virtual public hearing process has begun for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s proposed rule to establish a federal heat standard in the workplace.

Researchers Heidi Brown and Ladd Keith of AIR's Climate Assessment for the Southwest within the Arizona Institute for Resilience are working together with the Pima County Health Department to evaluate cooling centers – and finding solutions to help protect lives across the Southwest.

Capping off their participation in this year’s Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents Program, six students traveled to Washington, D.C., in April to participate in the 2025 Planet Forward Summit at George Washington University.

Teenage Kacey Ernst, PhD, MPH, had her life figured out. She was going to save the world and the Amazon rainforest at the same time. Ernst is currently director of the Bridging Biodiversity and Conservation Science program within the Lovejoy Center at the Arizona Institute for Resilience.

Carnegie Science's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona served as an intellectual hub where pioneering ecologists helped transform the emerging discipline of ecology from descriptive natural history into a rigorous scientific field.

For weeks, University of Arizona student Ojas Sanghi had Tuesday, April 8, circled on his calendar: The day he hoped to hear about the Truman Scholarship. Every year, the prestigious award is given to several dozen college students intending to enter government work or public service.

The university will mark Earth Day with a week of events hosted by the Office of Sustainability, Students for Sustainability and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. The events, which are free and open to the campus community, will showcase organizations throughout campus focusing on sustainability.

New York City is perhaps an unexpected place to become an ecologist, and a marketing job for the clothing brand FUBU is an even more unexpected stepping stone to get there. But that's where Elise Gornish was in the early 2000s, fresh out of undergrad with degrees in English and business, and a seemingly cool job in the city.