As if fighting fires wasn’t dangerous enough, firefighters now have to worry about COVID-19 while they’re on the job, making for what fire officials say will be the “most challenging…
Environmentalists are blasting a Trump administration call for “bold action to revive and strengthen the uranium mining industry,” an industry whose history they say has left a “toxic trail” through…
It’s the early 1990s, and Park Williams stands in the middle of Folsom Lake, at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California. He’s not walking on water;…
There may not be a more unique place in our country than Arizona. From our deserts and wide-open landscapes to our snow-capped mountains and the Grand Canyon, our state is…
The Phoenix area is famous for its warm spring days and wealth of outdoor activities, but it’s also known for something less flattering: some of the worst air quality in…
A week after metro Phoenix was drenched by record-shattering rain, another storm will bring additional drops to the desert and flakes to the high country. The storm, which now is…
Last month was Earth’s warmest January on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports, and that was true in Arizona, where January 2020’s average temperature was 3.2 degrees above…
A global mining company that is building a “mine of tomorrow” in southern Arizona with goals for net-zero emissions and water recycling recently completed a $30-million voluntary clean-up project to…
Arizona business leaders from the state’s most sustainable companies — Microsoft, Intel, Arizona Public Service, Ewing Irrigation, Salt River Project and others — met with legislative leaders at the state…
“Water scarcity” is not a term Arizonans like to use; certainly not civic leaders, economic development professionals or water utilities. Those two words can invoke confusion and concerns, sometimes irrational. …
Arizona is a beautiful state with vast wilderness and lots to see and explore. This incredible place is also surprisingly one of the states that are most at-risk in terms…
Arizona industry could be faced with a $250-million bill for air pollution that is mostly created by everyday drivers in the Phoenix metro region, said the director of the Arizona…
