Environment
The Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce jaguars to the Southwest.
Dec. 13, 2022
Although big water projects such as dams are front and center when Arizona cities talk about their water supply, the state’s wildlife relies on natural sources, like springs. A nonprofit is doing a survey on springs in the southern Arizona area known as sky island country.
Dec. 9, 2022
Environmentalists want the U.S. government to list coyotes as endangered in parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
Dec. 9, 2022
An increase in activity at the Pinyon Plain uranium mine has conservationists concerned that the site could begin production soon. Although that’s not likely to happen, time is running out for a bill that would stop other mines in the Grand Canyon region.
Dec. 7, 2022
Climate change is affecting all areas of life. But the director of ASU's Global Futures Lab wants to mitigate its effect on future generations.
Dec. 7, 2022
President Joe Biden visited north Phoenix on Tuesday to mark a major announcement in the semiconductor industry. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, known as TSMC, plans to invest $40 billion in Arizona between a nearly completed facility and a second plant expected to open in 2026.
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Dec. 6, 2022
The Biden administration wants to use public lands to develop renewable energy. But even renewable energy projects, which are presumably good for the environment, can present trade-offs.
Dec. 6, 2022
After more than a century of dam building and development, the Colorado River ends as a trickle at the Arizona-Mexico border. The river was once the lifeblood of the Cocopah, or River People. The tribe has begun trying to return a sliver of that landscape to what it once was.
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Dec. 6, 2022
Arizona is set to get more than $76.5 million over the next five years as part of a national electric vehicle infrastructure program. While the Arizona Department of Transportation plans to add public charging stations along interstate highways, utility companies are preparing for more cars that rely on the power grid.
Dec. 4, 2022
It’s bald eagle breeding season in Arizona, and the Arizona Game and Fish Department has placed restrictions on certain wildlife areas. Recreationists, aircraft pilots, drone users and motorized paragliders are encouraged to not disturb the breeding areas.
Dec. 3, 2022
The U.S. Forest Service issued a warning to visitors coming to the Coronado National Forest in southeastern Arizona.
Dec. 1, 2022
By early next year, Sonoran officials say the coastal municipality of Guaymas, which has long struggled with a collapsing sewage system and spotty access to drinking water, will take control of its own water operations.
Nov. 30, 2022
The drought has sent federal agencies scrambling to keep Lake Mead and Lake Powell from falling. They are trying to keep California’s largest lake from drying up as well.
Nov. 29, 2022
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility would like the National Park Service to ban the use of lead in ammunition and fishing tackle.
Nov. 28, 2022
A Scottsdale animal shelter took in five orphaned bear cubs last year in hopes of later releasing them. All five have been returned to the wild.
Nov. 23, 2022
Environmental groups are watching closely to see how Arizona’s next governor, Katie Hobbs, will handle a makeshift wall of shipping containers the state is putting up along the border.
Nov. 23, 2022
A Washington-based policy group says that the Biden administration will need to do more in 2023 in order to meet its climate goals. The Bureau of Land Management could figure prominently in those efforts.
Nov. 23, 2022
Tonto National Forest will begin cleanup operations for an abandoned asbestos mill located south of Young.
Nov. 22, 2022
Mangroves are considered one of the planet’s most important ecosystems. But they are disappearing world wide because of threats including climate change, urban development and other human activities. So, an Indigenous conservation group is working to protect some of the northernmost mangroves on the North American continent.
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→ More news from the Fronteras Desk
Nov. 21, 2022
Arizona State University is celebrating the anniversary of a book that explored the Grand Canyon and its geology. "The Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District with Atlas" by Clarence Dutton came out 140 years ago.
Nov. 21, 2022
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