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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

View of the Soto homestead, outside the old town of Harshaw, Arizona. (Photo by Clara Migoya/El Inde).

Harshaw’s mining legacy through the eyes of workers’ families

May 9, 2020

By Clara Migoya/El Inde Antonio Tapia, 79, stands on the porch of his southside Tucson home, scanning a sepia drawing through thick, smoky glasses. His eyes move from a tall poplar tree in the picture,...

Tucson's ubiquitous shopping cart

Tucson’s ubiquitous shopping cart

November 7, 2019

By Laura Fuchs/Arizona Sonora News Shaun runs the “cart master” during the morning shift at the Walmart on Wetmore Road in Tucson. The four-wheeled, battery-operated shopping cart pusher is controlled...

Biologist Don Swann peers toward Tucson from Saguaro National Park -- North. © Kaite Fletcher, 2018

Climate change and the national park’s saguaro cactuses

Kaitlyn Fletcher December 5, 2018

Tall and resilient, the saguaros of the Sonoran Desert are finding it more difficult to reach maturity as higher temperatures exacerbate drought and leave a trail of young cactus carcasses. A hotter,...

A native cactus bee (Diadasia rinconis) sits on its preferred flowering plant. Photo by: © Bruce Taubert

Native bees do it better

Kaitlyn Fletcher October 2, 2018

  A native bee wraps its hind legs around a flower and vibrates its wings to unlock the flower’s hidden treasure –pollen. Its fuzzy body coated in yellow, the bee flies off to discover...

Tyler Crosby of Crosby Mint Farm stands at the farm's booth at a farmer's market on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, April 25. Crosby's family has operated a mint farm in Tucson for 10 years. (Photo by Ava Garcia/Arizona Sonora News Service)

Climate change could shake up Arizona agriculture

Ava Garcia May 15, 2018

The agriculture industry has a tough job ahead of it. The United Nations estimates the world will need 70 percent more food to feed the global population by 2050. But the real challenge lies...

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