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The Biden administration has allocated $325,000 in federal funding to replace a culvert in Apache County that prevents a threatened fish species from moving freely within its habitat.
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The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation's woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has released a plan to prioritize conservation on public lands to better respond to a changing climate.
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Stinknet is true to its name: it’s a plant with an overwhelming and off-putting turpentine odor. Also known as Globe Chamomile, it has bright yellow flowers the shape of golf balls and carrot-like dark green leaves. It’s native to South Africa.
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A new study from Northern Arizona University traces the carbon in the atmosphere over the last 100 years through a unique scientific instrument: wildflowers. Scientists examined century-old specimens of local plants to get insights into how the climate is changing. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with lead author Mariah Carbone about how bombs detonated in the 50s and 60s left a signature behind.
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A new survey shows a large number of Arizonans support preserving the state’s land and water.
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U.S. forest managers are moving ahead with plans to kill feral cattle they say are threatening public safety and natural resources in the nation's first designated wilderness.
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Twenty-five hundred palm species are known worldwide, yet the Desert Fan Palm is the only one native to the Western U.S. Also called the California Palm, it happens to be the largest of the 14 species in the country and can live up to 250 years.
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Volunteers who visited sites in California and Arizona around Thanksgiving tallied more than 330,000 butterflies, the highest number of these insects counted in the last six years.
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The oldest organism in the world is 600,000-year-old Siberian bacteria, and the oldest plant is a 200,000-year-old sea grass meadow near Spain. But the Southwest has the distinction of being home to the largest concentration of old plant species.