Climate Change and faith aren’t two ideas you often hear in the same sentence. Yet there is a long history of religious thought about the role of humans as stewards of the environment. In recent years, almost all major religions in the world have taken steps forward in their mission to care for the…
¿Pueden los humanos cultivar comida en Marte de la misma manera que el personaje de Matt Damon, en la película nueva de “Marte: Operación rescate”? Los científicos de la Universidad de Arizona dicen que sí, pero no necesariamente como lo hizo el héroe de la historia, Mark Watney. Los investigadores de la universidad han trabajado…
Can humans grow food on Mars in the same way that Matt Damon’s character did in the popular new movie “The Martian”? University of Arizona scientists say yes, but not necessarily in the fashion that the hero of the story, Mark Watney, did. Researchers at the UA have been working for years on ways to…
Las mujeres que viven en las zonas rurales en Arizona, igual que las mujeres que viven en las zonas rurales en todo Estados Unidos, enfrentan obstáculos cuando tratan de conseguir el cuidado integral de salud dentro de sus comunidades. De acuerdo con Leah Meyers, la directora de la Red de Salud de las Mujeres Rurales…
Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region. Before Arizona became known for its cotton and citrus, before farmers moved west to tame the land, before Spanish explorers first set their eyes on the Grand Canyon, the Tohono O’odham…
