Desert Plants: Baja Fairy Duster
Colorful, drought-tolerant and good for pollinators.
Tucson takes plastic program citywide
City will turn waste plastic into blocks for building.
Fossil Collection
The Desert Laboratory's Vertebrate Paleontology Collection houses over 20,000 fossils, many of them from right here in the Sonoran Desert.
I-11 lawsuit goes to court
Environmental groups say alternative routes were not considered.
USDA awards $930 million towards wildfire preventions
Three million acres of the San Carlos Apache Tribal Forest Protection Project will receive funding.
The Buzz: Arizona and snow
While non-rain precipitation is rare in the deserts, it's not uncommon for the mountains to get feet of snow each year.
Desert Plants: Creosote
It has one of the most recognizable smells in the desert, it attracts dozens of different types of bees, and it might have been eaten by native camels thousands of years ago.
Anthropocene Who?
Meet Nika Kaiser and Erica Prather, two artists whose work is centered around issues relating to climate change and extinction.
More than 41,000 sandhill cranes in Southern Arizona
Arizona birders can see the cranes in person at the annual Wings over Willcox Bird & Nature Festival.
Forest Service resumes cleanup of abandoned mines near Prescott after pause
The project, which was split into two because of funding issues and to avoid interfering with the owls, began in December 2021.
New Tucson 80 year water master plan implements rainwater harvesting
The first draft is not expected until September this year.
Ski Valley opens for snowboarding and skiing
Almost 250 people attended and worked Ski Valley's opening day.
Biden signs water bills benefiting 3 tribes in Arizona
President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday giving leasing authority to the Colorado River Indian Tribes, whose reservation tracks its namesake on the Arizona-California border.
Desert Plants: Organ Pipe
The organ pipe cactus is native to Mexico and the United States where many can be found in their namesake national monument in western Pima County, Arizona.
It’s electric: ADOT planning a statewide network of EV chargers along interstates
The Arizona Department of Transportation will oversee the upgrade of existing chargers and installation of new ones along five interstate highways.
