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1. Tell us a little bit about yourself (and Canelo). Canelo and I are always together. We love volunteering and spending time outside. We are both native Arizonans and love this biodiverse state. Arizona has more biomes than any other state,...

from Sierra Club Awards Committee for 2024 [on facebook]... "Thomas Hatfield from the Grand Canyon Chapter is receiving the Communication Excellence Award this year for teaching volunteers in Sierra Club...

by Maria Traveno Climate change is an undeniable reality. Our planet is experiencing unprecedented global warming due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and other human activities. Arizona has fluctuating temperatures, where...

by Oscar Valencia Here in the Valley of the Sun, our urban forests plays a vital role in cooling our cities. They do so by providing shade and through evapotranspiration, which is a process that cools surrounding areas through water vapor...

by Ana Gorla We kicked off Latinx Conservation Week in Arizona with a stargazing event near the proposed Great Bend of the Gila National Monument. We got to the Painted Rock Petroglyph campsite as the light was leaving the sky, just in time to...

by Miché Lozano "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson is a thought provoking climate fiction novel that weaves together policy, global finance, and environmentalism. While its complexity might appeal more to some readers -- I'm...

by Gary Beverly BOOK REVIEW: “The Emerald Mile” by Kevin Fedarko,2013, Scribner, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map -- An audiobook version is available at most local libraries and through Audible. While...

OCT 26, 2024 (SAT) TIME TBA. “D” Kendall Camp Day Hike (2 miles RT, EC <300). We will park on FR79 and hike to Kendall Camp. Fall colors and fabulous views north. Kendall Camp was a mining camp and homestead. All that remains is the apple...

Plate tectonics has blessed (or cursed?) Arizona with minerals -- copper, gold, lithium, uranium, zinc, lead, coal, and more -- extracted from the earth at the expense of the environment and indigenous people -- permitted by obsolete federal mining...

Background information on local mines...