Arid Lands & Resources

Tucson, Arizona, is giving residents financial incentives to harvest their rainwater as the desert city works to become carbon neutral by 2030.

The new documentary THE WEST IS BURNING premiering next month in Southern California on KCET, examines the history of forest management and litigation to raise awareness of the current conditions of forests in the western U.S.

The population of Mount Graham red squirrels in Arizona has reached triple digits for the first time since a wildfire pushed the subspecies close to extinction three years ago, state wildlife officials said Monday.

Farmers in Mexico ambushed soldiers and seized a dam to stop water payments to the United States, in a sign of growing conflict over increasingly scarce resources. 

New research shows that while winter rains can temper the beginning of the wildfire season, monsoon rains are what shut them down. This monsoon season was the second-driest on record, leaving Southern Arizona dry and vulnerable.

In a Southwest that’s getting hotter and drier while its population steadily grows, ecologists and Indigenous food activists are increasingly touting mesquite’s potential as a widespread, sustainable drylands crop and food source.

Development in Arizona's wildlands is making fires more expensive, and in some cases, more difficult to prevent.

Fire is a natural process, but it will take decades for some areas to recover or regrow habitat that burned this year.

The great blazes burning the West are like colossal campfires.