Farmers in arid central Arizona have always faced a formidable climatic challenge. The region around Phoenix receives a scant fraction of the annual rainfall needed to irrigate traditional crops like

CBO Director Leah Gerber and graduate student affiliate Beth Tellman recently organized a panel entitled “Expanding diversity in the next generation of ecology” at the 100th anniversary of the Ecological Society

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will host an information session for undergraduate and graduate college students interested in public service careers. This session will focus on students interested

In its newly-released college rankings for 2016, which compare more than 1,500 institutions on a variety of metrics, U.S. News and World Report placed Arizona State University at the top of its “most innovative schools” list before both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The fall meeting of the Board of Directors for Sustainability at ASU will be held in San Francisco next month. The meeting will begin at 12 p.m. on Monday, October 5, and end

In his essay, Seeing the full picture: save nature, live better, M. Sanjayan seals the perceived separation between humans and the natural world, demonstrating how conservation is actually in our own

School of Sustainability lecturer and anthropologist, Milan Shrestha, has joined an interdisciplinary team of scientists working on an NSF-funded study of the risk posed by an engorged Himalayan glacial lake to the centuries-old settlements positioned downstream.

Parents go to great lengths to ensure the health and well-being of their developing offspring. The favor, however, may not always be returned. Dramatic research has shown that during pregnancy,

As the climate in the Southwest becomes hotter and drier, water will become an ever more precious resource, demanded by people with competing interests. Ranchers and farmers could see their

A Nature article following the latest annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America shares CAP LTER Director Nancy Grimm's sentiment that urban ecology's findings are increasingly important as the world's growing population urbanizes, and as cities seek resilience to the effects of climate change.

Students interested in careers that entail communicating sustainability science can now obtain a dual Master of Mass Communications and Master of Sustainable Solutions from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Sustainability.

In the grips of long-term drought, the Colorado River Basin and the cities that rely on its water face unprecedented challenges and significant uncertainty with a warming climate and large-scale