Art of the Wild

President Trump has declared a national emergency to fund a wall along our nation’s southern border. The border wall issue…

In the already-scorching Southwest, a group of scientists, ranchers and farmers are figuring out how to adapt the current agricultural…

Twenty-five nationally prominent ecologists, hydrologists, botanists and archaeologists demand that Homeland Security cease any activities that further threaten the destruction…

On February 27, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, unveiled a bill that had the potential to positively affect the lives of millions of Americans. It was intended to immediately divert money from President Donald Trump’s border wall to the U.S. response to the coronavirus. At the time, we could only guess how badly such funds would be needed. Now, more than a month later, public health officials have informed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that a minimum of 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds will be needed by April 15 in his state alone to deal with the predicted peak of COVID-19.

Could it be that Tucson is eating its way out of poverty and food insecurity? Or to ask such a…

Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation reaffirmed the modern relevancy of a sacred site in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument impacted by border wall construction.

A group of Tohono O’odham, Hia C-ed O’odham, Pascua Yaqui and their non-Indigenous allies gathered, Sunday, March 8, beside the pond fed by Quitobaquito Springs to discuss how building the border wall and pumping local groundwater to make cement is harming the area cherished by the local Indigenous peoples.

Marlene Vazquez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. She said she regularly visits Quitobaquito Springs, but she’s seen the landscape change to the recent changes.

I ran across the following in Gary Nabhan’s new book: Food from the Radical Center. “As a cub reporter for…

Fences and walls erected along international boundaries in the name of national security have unintended but significant consequences for biodiversity…

Something other than coffee is brewing at Exo Roast Co. Along with the typical coffee beverages like lattes, cappuccinos, and…

Agricultural ecologist and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan, considered the father of the local food movement and a pioneer of the…

Dirt: So you occasionally write about us? Gary: Well yes, on occasion. Why? Dirt: What do you think entitles you…

Do you wear a mask in public? The pandemic has shifted our cultural perception of face covering, and throughout time,…

More than ever in recent history, the religious liberties of American citizens have been in the news lately, from government-enforced…

Arizonans were caught off guard when they heard that the Santa Cruz National Heritage Area had recently been designated by…

Crop wild relatives—the wild progenitors and closely related species to cultivated plants—have provided many important agronomic and nutritional traits for…