Sustainability and cattle ranching aren’t typically thought of as going hand in hand, especially in desert regions. But a small group of friends has been practicing sustainable cattle ranching near Tucson, Arizona, since the late 1980s. The group is called Saguaro Juniper Corporation– named for the unique combination of saguaro cactus and juniper trees they…
High school students are finding their political muscle. The March for Our Lives protest on March 24, the most recent in a string of similar actions organized by high school students since the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, may have been the biggest single-day protest in the history of our nation’s capital, with…
Parts of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada are likely to see increases of five or more times current levels of annual area burned by 2038, according to the study.
Although many studies investigate the physical impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels and more intense storms, very few ask how worrying about a changing climate could be affecting someone’s mental health. A January study published by University of Arizona researchers in the journal Global Environmental Change did just that. The researchers found that…
