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Wild horses and donkeys dig wells in the desert, providing water for wildlife Douglas Main © Photograph by Justin Sullivan LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, NV - MAY 12: Wild horses walk through dry brush on May 12, 2015 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. As severe drought grips parts of the Western United States, Lake Mead, which was once the largest reservoir in the nation, has seen its surface elevation drop below 1,080 feet above sea level, its lowest level ...

The Good News About Climate Change: There’s Still Hope With warming environments, landscapes are shifting. But life is still abundant. When ecologist Craig Allen looks across the brown, grassy shrublands on the east flank of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, he feels no satisfaction that he was right. Right that the world was warming. Right that warming would spur such large, severe fires that the forest he studied for decades would disappear. And right that increasing temperatures...

Analysis Analysis Based on factual reporting, although it incorporates the expertise of the author/producer and may offer interpretations and conclusions. Life Is Abundant, Even as the Climate Is Changing The East fork of the Jemez River flows through the Jemez Mountains of Santa Fe National Forest in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Photo by Ron Reznik / VW Pics/ Universal Images Group / Getty Images Climate change is dangerous and disorienting. But building new relationships with the landscapes around...

If there is such a thing as a celebrity herpetologist, University of Arizona doctoral student Earyn McGee is well on her way. At age 26, the self-described “lizard lady” already has her own Wikipedia page, a temporary statue in her honor at the Central Park Zoo in New York City, and her own line of merchandise for the tens of thousands of people who follow her on social media. Earlier this month, McGee’s campaign to make science more fun and her field more inclusive to people of ...

(Photo: Chris Richards/University of Arizona) It was a year that changed everything. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Arizona responded swiftly to the challenges presented by an unprecedented public health crisis. The entire Wildcat community – from virologists to public health experts to psychologists and everyone in between – contributed their time, energy and expertise to help the university and the nation with life-saving safety efforts and long-term mitig...