by Jonathan FinkSpecial for The Republic On Saturday evening, Arizona State University's University Center building at the downtown Phoenix campus will go completely dark for one hour. The voluntary blackout

by Anthony Brazel for the Arizona Republic During the 1960s, I had the good fortune of spending several summers on some ice- and snowfields in Alaska, at a time when

Science Magazine"News articles offer an on-the-ground look at how cities are tackling specific problems from poverty and sanitation to traffic jams. Reviews and Perspectives examine how cities take shape and

by Jim Holway for the Arizona Republic I am often asked: Are our current growth and water use “sustainable?” This simple question does not have a simple answer. First, we

Arizona RepublicFrom a young age, small environmental efforts like this were embedded in my thought process. I saw how being environmentally savvy was a social event because I got to

Arizona RepublicTo help create solutions to global warming, more than 1,200 colleges, universities and high schools in Arizona and across the United States this week will participate in Focus the

by Eric Williams for the Arizona Republic Finally, it has arrived: your new desktop computer with a 3Ghz processor and a screaming-fast video card that will realistically render the digital

ASU News You know algae. It’s the gunk that collects on the sides of a fish tank when you forget to clean it. It’s the slime that makes you slip

ASU News Two grants to ASU for development of new solar energy technologies show how ASU’s solar energy research has grown in new and important ways. > Read more

East Valley TribuneWith its bright sunny location and hundreds of thousands of square feet of flat rooftops, Arizona State University wants to move into solar energy in a big way.>

by Kathy Jacobs for the Arizona Republic The Arizona Water Institute (AWI) is a consortium of Arizona's universities – Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona –

New York TimesThe threat of Global Warming is sparking new collaboration between academic disciplines. "'We want all the departments to contribute without thinking they own the initiative themselves,' Dr. Fink