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One-Quarter of Freshwater Animals at Risk of Extinction, New Research Shows

The study, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and co-authored by experts throughout the world, recommends targeted action to prevent further extinctions and calls for governments and industry leaders to use these data in water...
8-Jan-2025 5:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

Why We Need to Save the Great Salt Lake—and How to Do It

New research co-authored by Northern Arizona University scientists examines the global risks posed by a shrinking Great Salt Lake and looks at the economic and environmental solutions needed to refill it.
7-Jan-2025 6:55 PM EST Add to Favorites

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A Public Health Emergency Is Waiting at the Bottom of the Antibiotic Resistance Cliff

New research led by Northern Arizona University showed that it’s not if, but when we will see pan-resistance.
23-Dec-2024 5:45 PM EST Add to Favorites

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How to Find a Comet Before It Hits Earth

First-year Ph.D. student Samantha Hemmelgarn led a study that looked at "footprints"—those meteor showers we see occasionally in the night sky—of comets that haven't passed Earth in 200 years to determine where those comets are now and,...
12-Dec-2024 8:25 PM EST Add to Favorites

How an Iconic Desert Tree Survives Extreme Heat—and the Unique Risk It’s Facing Now

Even in extreme heat waves, Fremont cottonwood trees can cool themselves through evaporation in their leaves, similar to the way we sweat when we’re hot. It’s how they’ve survived in Arizona and throughout the Southwest.
12-Dec-2024 6:15 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Researchers Uncover a Troubling Trend in Tropical Rainforest Biodiversity

Scientists across four continents worked together to create and analyze three-dimensional maps of tropical rainforests throughout the globe. What they found is worrying: three- quarters of rainforests worldwide are suffering from human intervention,...
4-Dec-2024 2:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

Three Ways NAU and SRP Are Protecting the Water and Electric Grid in Arizona

Teams from Northern Arizona University and the Salt River Project collaborated on several research projects, including ones aimed at protecting the Salt and Verde River watersheds and ensuring the power grid can handle the increasing number of...
18-Nov-2024 1:45 PM EST Add to Favorites

Launch of Nationwide Map Viewer and Database AIDS Wildfire Planning and Understanding of Treatment Effects

The launch of the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase, known as TWIG, now provides an open-access platform where all federal fuel treatment and wildfire data can be viewed, downloaded and analyzed. This comprehensive data compilation...
14-Nov-2024 6:30 PM EST Add to Favorites


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