Forgotten Fruits Manual & Manifesto – Apples

What most North Americans know of the deserts along the U.S./Mexico border is that there are zones of conflict between…

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

The recent acrimonious debates about further fortifying barriers all across the 2000 mile US/Mexico boundary line beg larger questions: Just…

The U.S. — and Arizona, more specifically — has countless environmental challenges, including keeping our air and water clean, ensuring…

In the face of unprecedented climatic disasters, social conflict, and political uncertainty, integrating in situ and ex situ strategies may…

We propose that comparisons of wild and domesticated Capsicum species can serve as a model system for elucidating how crop…

For decades, we have been told that agriculture in the U.S. Southwest evolved from a blending of pre-Spanish-contact Indigenous crops…

Farmers and ranchers hold the key to carbon storage. As we celebrate Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, the environmental movement finds…

We often hear about a divided United States — separated by politics, race, economics and other factors — but Gary…

These are tough times for soybean farmers. As President Trump’s trade war with China drags on, retaliatory tariffs are clobbering…

“Our challenge is not only resilience, which is the power to rebound (re- “back” + salire “to jump, leap”). Our…

Earth Day, when people around the world come together to support the protection of the environment, is commemorating its 50th anniversary this year. The covid-19 pandemic will mean celebrations are muted, but it is worth looking back at its achievements and seeing if it can still make a difference in today’s world.I was there at the beginning.

This last year, we have palpably felt a heightened level of traumatic stress pervasive in the Indigenous communities where all three of us have worked on both sides of the international boundary. Throughout our adult lives, we have provided educational opportunities, technical assistance, and land rights advocacy strategies within the many Indigenous communities that live within 100 miles or so from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Most Americans are aware that much of the West is suffering unrelenting drought, but they may not recognize how dramatically…

Construction is underway on a 30-foot-high steel wall along Arizona’s southern border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. As several…