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Environmentalists gather to protest climate change in El Presidio Park in downtown Tucson, Az., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.  Protesting can be an impactful way of changing climate legislation. 

OPINION: If we’re going to stop climate change, everyone must be held accountable

Sean Fagan
March 22, 2021
University of Arizona Students participate in a Climate Change Walk out on Jan. 23.

Change happens when you go out to do it

Nicholas Trujillo
August 21, 2019
EDITORIAL: Climate change: the horror story that doesn't end in October

EDITORIAL: Climate change: the horror story that doesn’t end in October

Daily Wildcat Opinions Board
October 15, 2018
Brooklyn Pizza Company is powered completely by solar panels located on the restaurant's roof and in the parking lot. Decisions made by the Arizona Corporation Commission and Tucson Electric Power stand to decrease the incentives for homes and businesses to install solar panels.

Trump decision to pull out of Paris Accord has potential effects on Tucson climate

Tori Tom
June 14, 2017
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the President of the COP21 climate change conference, celebrates along with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President Francois Hollande on Dec. 12, 2015 after representatives of 196 countries approved a sweeping environmental agreement during a multinational meeting at LeBourget Airport in Paris, France. The recent U.S. pullout from the agreement prompted responses from a number of states independently.

Last week in science: Climate change policy and memory science

Malik Shelp
June 11, 2017
Galaxy M16 as seen by Jonathan Davis' homemade telescope. Photos like these will be taken using mirrors built and polished in the Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory.

Wildcat science: A year in review

Rebekah Ulmer
May 10, 2017
An overhead view of the Great Barrier Reef at the Whitsunday Islands, Australia on Dec. 27, 2009. The reef is experiencing an ongoing bleaching crisis.

Last week in science: Magnetic eels and vaccines

Nicole Morin
April 17, 2017
Cast of a Stegosaurus stenops skeleton (AMNH 650) in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. A new find indicates stegosaur dinosaurs were once found in modern Australia. 

Last week in science: Dinosaurs, black holes, and RC turtles

Hannah Dahl
March 28, 2017
Bill Gates from the "Collecting Innovation Today" interview in June 2009, as a part of The Henry Ford's "OnInnovation" project that celebrates the contributions of today's innovators. Gates recently argued that companies utilizing increasing automation should pay a tax.

Last week in science: refreezing the Arctic and matrilinial families

Owen Zerambo
February 27, 2017
Climate change a focus at science diplomacy summit

Climate change a focus at science diplomacy summit

Michaela Webb
February 27, 2017
WWF-New Zealand Climate Change Program: WWF is working to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce these harmful effects on people and nature.

Environmental leaders meet in Phoenix to talk about climate change

Marissa Heffernan
February 21, 2017
Alison Hawthorne Deming pictured in 2013. Deming will be at the Climate Change & Poetry event on Thursday, Feb. 16.

Climate Change and Poetry series draws to a close

Kirshana Guy
February 15, 2017
A view of the Sahara Desert on Jan. 19, 2010. Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was green and verdant.

UA Earth scientists answer questions about an ancient, green Sahara

Chandler Donald
February 4, 2017
Kashja Iler, a first-year grad student in the school of natural resources and development, and Diego Martinez-Lugo, a senior majoring in environmental studies and geography, hold up a sign during the climate walkout on Jan. 23. The walkout is one of many around the country, organized by 350.org.

UA students walk out in protest of President Trump’s climate change vision

William Rockwell
January 25, 2017
A view of the Sonoran Desert west of Tucson on Jan. 6. The University of Arizona is the centerpiece of research in a variety of fields.

Last Week in Science: January 15

Chandler Donald
January 24, 2017
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left) and SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, view the historic Dragon capsule that returned to Earth on May 31, 2012, following the first successful mission by a private company to carry supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at the SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas. After the temporary setback of a rocket explosion last year, SpaceX successfully launched and recovered a new rocket last week.

Last week in science: five stories you may have missed

William Rockwell
January 17, 2017

UA CLIMAS initiative helps Hopi Tribe address drought devastation

Victor Garcia
January 17, 2017
Researcher Armin Sorooshian sits in one of the planes he and other researchers are using to study climate change. Sorooshian's focus is aerosols — airborne particles that impact the earth's atmosphere and climate.

Flying the friendly skies: UA scientists use airplanes to research climate change

Hannah Dahl
January 14, 2017
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

Three science events to look out for in 2017

Hannah Dahl
January 11, 2017
Dead trees west of Denver, Colorado, killed by a combination of drought and beetle infestations.

University research team identifies the impacts of forest death on other continents

Nicole Morin
November 28, 2016
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