Bethany Wilcox has always wanted to have kids.

“Seeing my parents and how much satisfaction and fulfillment they seemed to have from raising my sister and me, I always wanted that," Wilcox said. "I always thought that was an amazing thing.”

Scientists have known last year’s Castle Fire was probably the most destructive for California’s famously fire-resilient sequoias in at least 700 years, but a draft National Park Service report obtained by the Visalia Times-Delta puts a quantitative measurement on that fire’s climate-fueled toll. Between 7,500 and 10,000 monarch sequoias — about 10% to 14% of the world’s mature sequoia population — perished in the fire.

We have an "opportunity to fix these super emitters.”

New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles.

This year and next, Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop.

Fixing just the worst leaks in the Permian Basin oil field could cut methane emissions by 55 tons an hour.

Export of water-intensive crops has been accelerating for decades.

Reduced snowpack across the West could promote faster warming to our north which is what we want to happen to get our monsoon pattern together.

The University of Arizona is working to see underneath the Andes Mountains. Its research could help people in South America be more prepared for earthquakes and teach us something about the mountain ranges that surround the Western United States.

As the Colorado River Basin enters yet another year of drought, global companies are worsening the water crisis.

Cactus experts are tracking an unprecedented outbreak of “side blooms” on saguaros across Southern Arizona this year.