Scientific American

• Visionary or Vision-Impaired? Lovelock is Both
   

• Extreme Digging (How water harvesting can help with droughts) 
   

• A River Rams through It: Argentina s Rio Nuevo Portends Problems to Come in South America - Scientific American Blog Network

 

The Tucson Green Times

• Winds of Change "As pipes burst around the Old Pueblo, flooding homes and leaving restaurants and coffee shops without running water, questions about climate change surfaced with the gurgling water."
   

• Save the Pines "Inhaling the scent of pine resin, walking on a cushion of needles, feeling the corky bark of a Ponderosa tree – all good reasons locals alluded to a sanctuary when naming the Mount Lemmon town Summerhaven. Yet forest havens throughout the Southwest could dwindle if we just sit by as temperatures rise and the winter snow that sustains them melts earlier in the season."
   

• For Peat's Sake "When I first started gardening a few years ago, it seemed natural to pick up a bag of potting soil to get my basil and oregano plants off to a good start. But as I was carefully crumbling the rich, airy soil from that automatic purchase, reality pricked at my conscience."
   

• Too Dry of a Heat "A mere eight hours after a midday rain in Tucson, my seat was practically dry. Yet I was sitting on a cushion that had covered an outdoor plastic chair during the half-hour rain. In truth, I was surprised the cushion wasn’t soggy."
   

• Tipping Points "One drink too many. The last straw that broke the camel’s back. We’re all familiar with tipping points, even if we don’t call them that. Soon we may need to add another ultimate to the list: The final ton of carbon dioxide that thawed the Arctic."  
   

• Well-Oiled Solutions "The oil spill really brings home the interlocking nature of our planet’s problems. The same substance heating up our climate is now destroying the natural systems that help keep our planetary thermostat in balance."
   

• Clearing the Air "Clearing The Air When the first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, pollution clouded and clogged the American landscape. Black billows of smoke erupted from factories and trucks. Sewage and chemicals drained directly into many of the nation’s rivers."
   

• Green vs. Greed "Green vs. Greed Some of the character attacks by global warming skeptics go to the heart of an issue affecting us all: Just where in this world do we draw the line between being an objective observer and an active participant?"
   

• Regreening Haiti "In Tucson and elsewhere, people are gathering resources – money, food, even people – to send to Haiti for the latest in a string of disasters. Gerard Dalencourt, a Haitian-born Tucson resident, blew a soulful sax with his funky voodoo band, Green Light, to help raise money during a Jan. 31 Hotel Congress benefit."
   

• Timing Matters "A December trip to Denver reminded me how cold the rest of the country gets during winter – and perhaps why many Americans continue to dismiss the threat of climate change. We arrived in snow-slicked Denver in a car whose heater had conked out – unbeknownst to us, for lack of use."
   

• Climate of Collaboration "It sounds like such a good idea, giving forests and other natural systems credit for the carbon dioxide they collect. And it is. With help from the oceans, natural systems pull down more than half the carbon dioxide we release around the world in the burning of coal, oil, gas and forests."

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San Juan Star

• Humans Playing Doctor with Mother Earth
   

• A Modern Way of Looking at the World: It's Alive
   

Nature Climate Change

• Wetlands Seens as an Unseen Carbon Sink

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Climate and Forests

• Urban Forests & Climate Change: Urban Forest Project Protocol
   

• Creating Forest Trails: Planning Trail Placement and Clearing Trails
   

• Thinning Forests to Reduce Risks from Wildfires
   

• Northwest U.S. Climate Assessment
   

• Southwest U.S. Climate Assessment
   

• Midwest U.S. Climate Assessment
   

• Southeast U.S. and Caribbean Climate Assessment
   

• Northeast U.S. Climate Assessment
   

• Alaska Climate Assessment
   

• National Climate Assessment Summarizes Climate Changes by Region
   

• Great Plains U.S. Climate Assessment
   

University of Arizona

• Corals Lock El Niño History in Radiocarbon
   

• Forests Around the Globe Follow Same Biological ‘Scaling’ Laws UA Ecologist Reports 
   

• Climate Change Threatens Unique Species “Hotspots” UA Climate Expert Says 
   

• Endangered Coral Records Changing Frequency of El Niño Events, UA Geoscientists Discover 
   

• Plan Fires Timed to La Niña or El Niño, UA Scientist Urges 
   

• Species Protection Must Include ‘Reconciliation,’ Says UA Ecologist 
   

• UA Geoscientist Uses Coral as “Skeleton Key” to Past Climates 
   

• Ancient Rodent Middens Record Past Tropical Rain in ‘Absolute’ Desert 
   

• Life Flourished when Earth was Warmer Scientist Says
   

• Straight from the Mouths of Grazers – Grasses Signal Drop in Global CO2 at 7 Million Years Ago
   

• Greenhouse Gases Warm Global Climate as Policy is Debated  

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Native Science Report

• Indigenous Climate Conference Offers Hopeful Message Participants at the recently concluded National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference focused on the resilience of Native...
   

• Weaving Worldviews In a climate many outsiders find inhospitable, Iḷisaġvik College science instructor Linda Nicholas-Figueroa, a transplant from the...
   

• Just Good Business In a state where oil is king, North Dakota’s tribal colleges are putting their bets on renewable energy. North Dakota isn’t the first...
   

• Shifting Seasons A phenology project at College of Menominee Nation is monitoring the impact of climate change on the region’s forests. . If plants could...
   

• Being a Good Ancestor Native communities must become leaders in the fight against climate change. “I see this as a crisis,” said Winona LaDuke in an address...
   

The Tree-Ring Times

Newspaper serving the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona.

• Publication Listings
   

San Juan Star

• Worried About the Weather? Plant a Tree
   

Sonorensis

• The Heat is On (with Gregg Garfin and Jonathan Overpeck)