Extreme heat doesn’t discriminate; the ability to escape it does.
Arizona
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
A silicon revival in the West
Is the region ready to produce the world’s most advanced technology?
Posted inIssues
‘There are no rules when it comes to art’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inArticles
What happens to birds when it’s smoky outside?
A community science initiative along the West Coast is using volunteer observations to study the effect of wildfire smoke on birds.
Posted inJuly 2024
The father of Chicano art photography
Louis Carlos Bernal saw his role
as creating art of and for the people.
Posted inIssues
La retrospectiva de Louis Carlos Bernal
El primer gran estudio de la vida y el trabajo del “padre de la fotografía artística chicana”
Posted inArticles
Supreme Court curtails agencies’ ability to enforce regulations
The repeal of the bedrock Chevron doctrine throws climate and conservation laws into doubt.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
Water inequality on the Colorado River
A new accounting reveals deep disparities in Western water consumption.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
What if the future is the past?
Degrowth offers a path for dealing with our serious environmental issues.
Posted inArticles
Audio: The Joshua tree-yucca moth link
These desert species wouldn’t survive without the other. Can they weather climate change together?
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns
The West remains cattle country
Livestock has indelibly altered the region’s land, water and air.
Posted inArticles
Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizona wind project
The SunZia transmission line will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest.
Posted inArticles
The good, the bad and the ugly of the state legislative season
While Congress does nothing, Western state lawmakers pass a flurry of consequential and/or crazy — bills.
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Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy.
Extractive industries are filling public university coffers on stolen land.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Big-eared bats, badass boulders and very determined hikers
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inArticles
Tending the shoots of possibility
On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, a researcher contemplates the future of species we’ve tried to protect.
Posted inArticles
‘Frybread Face and Me’ shows the complexity of Indigeneity
Billy Luther’s new coming-of-age film shows characters grappling with city life juxtaposed against the reservation.
Posted inArticles
We need to reframe our thinking about what’s wild
Why we should take a look from wildlife’s perspectives.
Posted inArticles
A sausage fusing Chinese and Mexican cultures is spicing up Tucson
The Chinese Chorizo Festival is excavating buried histories of immigrant solidarity.