Environment and Sustainability News

The campus sustainability trio: the President's Advisory Council on Environmental Sustainability, the Office of Sustainability and the student-led Green Fund Committee.

The center, fueled with a $3.1 million, five-year grant, will address the current and future effects of climate change on the region's natural and cultural resources.

Relationships among organisms, or mutualisms, might be more important to global ecosystem health than previously thought, argues a research team involving UA professor Judith Bronstein.

Many scientists are investigating aspects of artificial photosynthesis. Roger Angel, a UA professor of astronomy and optics, said scientific advances will make current solar technology much more efficient in the future.

An analysis by UA research scientist Phil Rosen found 50 percent declines in eight snake species and a half-dozen lizard species at Organ Pipe Monument, about 140 miles southwest of Tucson. Climate, he said, could be a factor.






