Thin snowpacks coupled with potentially warm temperatures and dry conditions have resource managers in the Southwest concerned for an elevated risk of wildfires in the spring.
Environment and Sustainability News
The UA's Water Resources Research Center will host a conference on water security on March 5 on the UA campus.
After 75 years in "temporary quarters" under the west side of the UA's football stadium, the world's first laboratory dedicated to tree-ring research now has a new home.
UA entomologists are joining forces with scientists on the other side of the globe to protect cotton in China from potentially devastating insect pests.
UA students are installing rainwater-harvesting systems in a class that helps the campus continue to improve its environmental sustainability.
The UA's Rod Wing has played a major role in mapping the structure and function of the world's primary cereal crops. Rice is the one that needs our immediate attention, says Wing, director of the Arizona Genomics Institute.
UA alumnus Kevin Daly, now an assistant professor of biology at West Virginia University, has trained a lab full of bomb-sniffing moths, sparking the interest of the U.S. Department of Defense.
The EPA water cluster director says the University and Tucson-Phoenix communities have the makings to lead the way in sustainable water resource technology and management.
Researchers have discovered four previously unknown viruses that infect the Earth’s most abundant organism, the marine bacterium SAR11.
The Great Lakes contain 84 percent of all the freshwater in North America, but they are remarkably fragile. Less than 1 percent of the water is renewed by precipitation, surface-water runoff and groundwater recharge.
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