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When will the Southwest become unlivable?
Air-conditioning and swimming pools are sustaining my community. I worry about the day when they won’t be enough.
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Millions lack reliable access to running water. Should they start catching rain?
Advocates say that in even the driest towns and cities, rain farming has the potential to erase projected water deficits in the decades to come.
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‘A living pantry’: How an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action
A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US.
Third round of solar co-op launches in Tucson
Solar United Neighbors is a local non-profit that is launching the 2023 Tucson solar co-op to help neighbors produce their own power, protect themselves from climate change and also save money.
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How wildfires are changing the Santa Catalina Mountains
Grasslands could replace the Sonoran desert landscape around the Santa Catalina Mountains as wildfires continue to ravage the area every year.
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Climate change could make air quality data harder to get
Sometimes science becomes too hot to handle. That's what researchers at the University of Arizona found recently when they tried to test a new air pollution monitoring system around Tucson.
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Colorado River Indian tribes take another step toward marketing valuable water in Arizona
The tribes unveiled draft legislation to allow their water to be leased to users in Arizona off the reservation or stored underground.
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