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Since 1990, the Udall Center Fellows Program has invited UArizona faculty across campus to take a semester off from teaching duties in order to focus on scholarly research that touches on some aspect of public policy.

A research team from the University of Maryland, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona, and other institutions has demonstrated the critical role of protected forests in climate change mitigation.

According to the study, protected forests store an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon in their aboveground biomass compared to ecologically similar regions that are not protected.

We protect what we are passionate about—but it is the spark of wonder and discovery that leads us to that passion.

Climate researchers at the University of Arizona are crossing their fingers for another wet monsoon.

The grant will fund the university's Western Environmental Science Technical Assistance Center for Environmental Justice, one of 17 Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers selected as part of a new program launched by the EPA in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy.

As temperatures increase and prolonged drought continues, a new study of ponderosa forests in the Four Corners region underscores the importance of summer monsoons.

The winners of the AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant will spend the next 12 months exploring the theme of soil science through community-centered research, outreach, and education.

A hard-fought agreement between California, Arizona and Nevada to slash the states’ use of the shrinking Colorado River is only a temporary salve to a long-term water crisis that continues to threaten the foundations of life in the American west, experts have warned.

Carpets of gold, burrowing toads and fairy shrimp all depend on vernal pools—habitats that, most of the time, do not exist.

Faculty, staff, student and community input is being sought as development gets underway for the University of Arizona's first Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. Efforts are underway to wean the University of Arizona off fossil fuels and go carbon-neutral by 2040 – perhaps even sooner. As a first step toward that goal, the Office of Sustainability is leading the development of the university's first Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.