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UA researcher John Streicher studies how opioids work in the brain in order to develop nonaddictive painkillers.

Scientist exploring how intermittent fasting might prevent addiction

Feb 11, 2020 If fasting has the same effect on humans as it does on mice, John Streicher says it could be a way to help prevent opioid addiction.
The New Beginnings Clinic on the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's reservation is the only medication-assisted treatment facility on tribal lands in Arizona as of February 2020.

Pascua Yaqui clinic working to treat opioid addiction, overcome stigma

Feb 6, 2020 The clinic is the state's only medication-assisted treatment facility on tribal land.
The Community Medical Services clinic in Sierra Vista opened in March 2019. It serves about 130 patients and operates from 4:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Miles from Recovery: How distance and stigma keep rural Arizonans from opioid treatment

Feb 4, 2020 As treatment options expand, solutions remain elusive for some.
U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Todd Esque holds a tortoise shell in the Mojave Desert, south of Las Vegas.

Climate change, and our response to it, is making life hard for desert tortoises

Jan 23, 2020 Tortoises are being hit with a one-two punch of energy projects springing up in a desert that is getting hotter and drier.
Looking upstream Sabino Creek on one of the bridges at the popular recreation site in Tucson in early winter.

Proposed Clean Water Act changes will mean uncertainty, loss of protections for Arizona waterways

Dec 18, 2019 The Trump administration is implementing a new rule defining which waterways are regulated under the act.
Razor scooters, Dec. 5, 2019.

Not a smooth ride so far for e-scooters in Tucson

Dec 10, 2019 The city is searching solutions to the problems scooters bring, while some are calling for an end to the program.
A canal carries Colorado River water to farmland near Poston, Arizona, owned and operated by the Colorado River Indian Tribes, a key player in Arizona's Drought Contingency Plan.

Historically left out, Colorado River tribes call for more sway in Western water talks

Nov 22, 2019 With the drought plan done, some tribal leaders say their water rights can’t be ignored any longer.
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspects Surveyor 3

UA's special connection with the second moon landing

Nov 18, 2019 The Apollo 12 mission relied on pinpoint calculations from a UA lunar scientist 50 years ago.
An irrigation canal carries Colorado River water to crop fields in central Arizona.

New analysis spells out serious legal risk to Colorado River water users

Nov 14, 2019 As climate change continues to sap the river’s water, some users face serious legal risks to their supplies.
The proposed site of the Rosemont Copper Mine.

How the Center for Biological Diversity grew in its fight against the 'status quo'

Nov 12, 2019 The Tucson-based conservation group has become one of the most influential in the country.
Ecologist Michael Bogan holds a common green darner dragonfly emerging from its larval stage on the Santa Cruz River.

Revived stretch of Santa Cruz River provides oasis for wildlife

Nov 7, 2019 Dragonflies, toads and birds are just some of the wildlife showing up since the project started releasing treated wastewater in June.
A spring-fed pond at the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, a stone's throw from the U.S.-Mexico border. This property is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Border wall construction continues across sensitive lands in Arizona

Oct 30, 2019 Contractors are working on new border wall east of Douglas, which will cross the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge.
University of Arizona main campus.

UA shifting to more renewable energy with TEP deal

Oct 18, 2019 The university plans to get 60% of its power from wind and solar by the end of 2020 as part of the agreement.
The San Pedro River just north of the international border with Mexico.

Deal will use Bisbee wastewater to recharge San Pedro River aquifer

Sep 24, 2019 The project is meant to support the health of the river following decades of agricultural pumping.
An electric bus being showcased in front of the Tucson Electric Power headquarters on Sept. 18, 2019. The city of Tucson plans to lease a bus from the California-based Gillig for a pilot program beginning next spring.

Tucson is getting electric buses, but more people are choosing to drive

Sep 24, 2019 The buses could reduce the city's greenhouse gas emissions, but ridership is at a 10-year low.
Young girls in attendance at the greenhouse reopening event.

Tumamoc Desert Lab revives century-old greenhouse

Sep 18, 2019 The plant collection is designed to expand public understanding of desert plants and where they originated.

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