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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.

A University of Arizona undergraduate looked at cities as living things to investigate how human energy use changes with rising temperatures. Her research could help save lives from heat waves.

Five interdisciplinary projects using arts-based research were selected to receive funding from the TRIF Water, Environment, and Energy Solutions initiative, administered by the Arizona Institute for Resilience, and the College of Fine Arts in the form of Arts|Humanities|Resilience grants.

Methane emissions from oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico are much higher than the United States government has previously estimated, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.