Global Warming
'Chasing Ice' focus is to quell climate change denial, skeptics
Photographer James Balog and filmmaker Jeff Orlowski scout Survey Canyon on the Greenland ice sheet. Their documentary "Chasing Ice" is a quest to silence climate change skeptics.
'Chasing Ice' focus is to quell climate change denial, skeptics
"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness" was a favorite Chinese proverb of the late "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schultz. Photographer James Balog must have taken that to heart as he noticed changes to the wild world he documents, and heard all the cursing dominatin…
Fitz Blog: Weather report
With this year’s property tax assessment my home is worth just about what I owe on my mortgage. I’m going to have a lot in common with the redneck who ignores the “Do not enter when flooded” sign. We’re both under water and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
TEP is asked to stop burning coal
With natural gas prices at their lowest levels in years, Tucson Electric Power Co. hasn't been burning coal at its south-side power plant lately.
Saguaros, emblems of the desert, now claim higher ground
The saguaro cactus - a tall, handsome, enduring symbol of the Sonoran Desert - is proving to be an upwardly mobile species. In terms of elevation, that is.
Saguaros, emblems of the desert, now claim higher ground
This saguaro grows under an oak tree "nurse plant" in a woodland area at 4,500 feet - well above the typical altitude for saguaros.
UA study: Warming oceans will also speed ice melting
WASHINGTON - Warming air from climate change isn't the only thing that will speed ice melting near the poles - so will the warming water beneath the ice, a new study headed by University of Arizona researchers points out.
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