On a sunny September morning in Tucson, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman holds up a rectangular wooden frame that houses a colony of honeybees. The air buzzes as tiny winged speckles flutter about. “Oh, yeah. This is beautiful,” says DeGrandi-Hoffman, an entomologist and research leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. She raises…
PHOENIX – With family and guests in tow, members of Arizona’s 52nd Legislature were sworn in on Monday wearing white carnations. White carnations are a traditional symbol wishing good luck. With a deficit projected to hit $1 billion, and a huge debt owed to public schools and Gov. Ducey’s pledge of no new taxes, the…
Approximately three Arizonans die by suicide each day. The state ranks 8th in death by suicides. It is the second leading cause of death for Arizonans ages 10 to 24. According to Suicide Prevention Alliance of Southern Arizona, more than 1,000 Arizonans die by suicide every year. In Arizona, more people die by suicide than…
Winter has slipped into the Arizona lifestyle and so has the potential threat for a silent killer. One family was feeling queasy and called the Fire Department who tested the air and found very high levels of the colorless, odorless gas. Carbon monoxide kills nearly 200 people per year in the United States from malfunctioning…
Sandy Wolf’s goal for the evening is simple: Tag 25 bats. The tags are small, metal microchips, similar to the ones used to ID dogs and cats. Inserted under the skin, the tags allow her to record the bats’ location when they fly past an antenna placed at a roost entrance or other frequently visited…
