UA researcher Rafe Sagarin explores in a new book how scientists are expanding their methodological toolbox to incorporate an array of new and seasoned observational approaches to track, study, and understand current environmental problems and their...
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UA researcher Miranda Loh is studying toenails to piece together a puzzle that could affect the health of more than 1 million Arizonans. Loh is trying to measure Arizonans' exposure to arsenic, a common but poisonous chemical element, over time.
Tucson Village Farm, an urban farm operated by the UA Cooperative Extension, is an environmental community program that teaches people about planting and harvesting.
UA researchers headed by the UA's Gene Giacomelli have designed a lunar greenhouse that could travel on missions to the moon and elsewhere.
The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, established at the UA in 1937, makes important contributions to climate science and the fire history of forests.
UA public health students this summer are collecting data for a dengue-prevention study. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that causes flu-like illness.
The Geological Society of America has honored Julio Betancourt, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey and adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, with the Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research.
Two grants totaling more than $2 million, plus a $625,000 endowment to support research by visiting scholars, has been awarded to the UA Insect Collection.
With the construction of a new recycling facility in Tucson that will accept most No. 1 through No. 7 recyclable plastics, local garbage collection companies are following suit and accepting those items as well.
Tumamoc Hill, owned by the UA, often is considered the birthplace of ecology and boasts the oldest continuous studies of plants in the world.
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