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Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

“Conch shells resemble water, we keep them facing up because we are asking for rain,” said a performer of Grupo Coatlicue, while leading a blessing of Arizona’s sacred river waters before the campaign launch.

Local campaign launches to protect Arizona’s most vital resource

Zoe Montaño, Reporter October 16, 2024

After more than a year of researching community concerns and priorities, the Water Guardians, a campaign by the Arizona Center for Empowerment, officially launched last Saturday at Kino Sports Complex. More...

The Campus Sustainability Fund committee members from Spring 2024 posed for a group photo. (Photo courtesy Campus Sustainability Fund)

University of Arizona’s Campus Sustainability Fund: Empowering a greener future amid budget realities

Lizzy Sorensen, Reporter October 7, 2024

As the University of Arizona grapples with ongoing financial challenges, one area that hasn’t been impacted is the Campus Sustainability Fund.   The fund is supported by student fee dollars, which...

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,...

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