Urbanization
Grand Canyon lodging, food services shuttered in face of coronavirus
By Joshua Gerard Gargiulo | Monday, March 23, 2020
Grand Canyon National Park is still open, but the same cannot be said for lodging and food services in the park, which will be shuttered for the next two months by concerns over coronavirus. Operations will be suspended from noon Friday through at least May 21.
Arizonans keep watchful eyes on bald eagles nesting near humans
By Isabella Hulsizer | Friday, March 20, 2020
Bald eagle breeding season has arrived in Arizona, and an interesting job comes from it: keeping an eye on potential parents and their nests.
Blasting sacred sites for border wall ‘forever damaged’ tribes
By Jessica Myers | Tuesday, March 10, 2020
An emotional Tohono O'odham Nation chairman told lawmakers Wednesday that blasting on sacred sites in national monuments to build a border wall near his reservation has "forever damaged our people."
Conservation Groups To UNESCO: Border Wall Puts Sonora’s World Heritage Sites ‘In Danger’
By Kendal Blust | Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
Just south of the Arizona border, Sonora’s stunning 2,700 square-mile El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve is a vast desert landscape dotted with enormous craters, sand dunes and lava flows. In 2013, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its outstanding biodiversity, including endemic species like the Sonoran Pronghorn.
Report Highlights The West’s Air Quality Challenges
By Noah Glick | Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020
About one-third of Americans live in areas that regularly have unhealthy levels of air pollution.
‘Asthma Alley’: Long Beach Ranks Worst in U.S. for Air Quality
By Grayson Schmidt | Monday, Oct. 21, 2019
Long Beach, which sits between the two largest seaports in the country, has good air quality just 10% of the year. The stretch of Interstate 710 that runs through Long Beach has been dubbed “Asthma Alley.”
‘Many Lives at Risk’: What Pollution Rollbacks Could Mean for California and Arizona
By Wills Rice | Friday, Oct. 4, 2019
The Trump Administration rolled back the Clean Air Act that has helped reduce smog and keep clean air along the West Coast.
Millennials Use Technology to Ensure the Future of Arizona Ranching and Farming
By Casey Kuhn | Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019
"You’re one bad crop away from total failure." Three Arizona millennials discuss how they ensure the state’s farms and ranches are sustainable and profitable.