By MICHAELA WEBB Arizona Sonora News We Americans flush an average of 10 gallons of drinkable water down the toilet every day. That’s 3,650 gallons per person per year. In Tucson, a year of flushing sends the equivalent of enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for between 450 and 5,550 hours (depending on…
By ELIZABETH EATON Arizona Sonora News Service GREEN VALLEY — Row after row of pecan trees stretches into the distance, their dark green reaching up to mix with the blue of the sky, like color blots on a painter’s easel. The smell is undeniably earthy. The trees lean in toward each other, creating a shaded pathway…
By ELIZABETH EATON Arizona Sonora News Service The Homol’ovi Project isn’t like Atlantis; there’s no mystery as to where this civilization disappeared. Instead, anthropologists like Claire Barker are trying to figure out where the people came from. Think of Barker as an anthropological detective. She has to put together clues from the past in order…
