Sustainability Festival explores environment, energy conservation solutions
A festival showcasing environmental and human connections to sustain the planet winds up this week.
Carbon-capture could ‘save the planet,’ ASU scientist says
Steve Atkins, wearing khakis and a tucked button-down blue shirt, squints closely at a primitive unit set up on the roof of a research building on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe.
Plan to protect 1.7 million acres at Grand Canyon claims new support
WASHINGTON - Backers of a bill that would create a new national monument on 1.7 million acres of federal land around the Grand Canyon touted a new survey Thursday that they said shows broad support for the plan.
El Niño: Is winter over for Arizona?
On Arizona State University’s Tempe campus Wednesday, people laid in the sun and others took a nap on the grass. It’s the middle of winter, but it doesn’t seem that way in Phoenix.
Phoenix plans to go green by making neighborhoods happier and healthier
Phoenix leaders want to make neighborhoods happier and healthier under a proposal to create a more environmentally conscious city -- but they want to hear from residents first.
Let the drain begin: Tempe Town Lake emptying for dam construction
TEMPE – Tempe Town Lake will soon be dry.
National parks need $11.9 billion in maintenance, $580 million in state
WASHINGTON - Arizona parks and monuments had more than $580 million in deferred maintenance at the end of fiscal 2015, part of a national backlog totaling $11.9 billion, according to a new National Park Service report.
Six months later, Gold King Mine crisis has passed but concerns linger
WASHINGTON - Six months after the Gold King Mine spill dumped nearly 3 million gallons of toxins into the Animas River, regulators say the immediate threat has passed and that an abandoned mine survey has "not discovered anything similar" in Arizona.
Navajo, others press EPA, Congress to act on uranium mine cleanup
WASHINGTON - Longtime Sanders resident Wayne Lynch was told in July that the water on his ranch contained dangerously high amounts of uranium, yet he is still using it.
Waste Management Phoenix Open goes environmentally green
SCOTTSDALE – The grass isn’t the only thing that’s green at the Waste Management Phoenix Open this week.
Anti-litter groups: Cigarette butts trash Valley freeways
The cigarettes that are detrimental to your health are also littering Arizona freeways, creating eyesores, leaching chemicals and causing a fire hazard.
Plan allowing shooting in Sonoran Desert National Monument advances
WASHINGTON - Federal officials are moving forward with a proposal to allow target shooting on more than 470,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert National Monument - a stark change from a 2012 plan that would have limited shooting to just 84 acres.
