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Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Oak Flat: Opposing op-eds try to sway public opinion

While Resolution Copper brought up the positive economic impacts of a mine, the San Carlos Apache Tribe calls out desecration.
Aerial view of the border wall at the Tinajas Altas Mountains near Yuma, AZ.

Biden halted border wall construction. Now what?

Environmental and human rights advocates hope to steer the administration toward a new vision at the border.
Members of Apache Stronghold, its legal team, and witness' in the case pose before the hearing for the preliminary injunction in Apache Stronghold v. United States of America Feb. 3, 2020.

Federal court hears case for preliminary injunction at Oak Flat

The judge said he will decide if he's going to temporarily stop progress on the mine by Feb. 12.
The Bureau of Land Management used prescribed burns across many of its properties for habitat improvement and to reduce the risk of severe wildfires.

BLM plans prescribed burn in San Pedro conservation area

The agency is planning to conduct a prescribed burn in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area sometime this month.
Indigenous-led protesters walk along a construction line in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Sept. 2020.

Border wall scars: 'It feels like if someone got a knife and dragged it across my heart.'

Tribal leaders and Borderlands communities reflect on their fruitless struggle to stop the wall.
Screenshot of Wendsler Nosie Sr., founder of Apache Stronghold, in a call-to-action video published the week the Jan. 15 U.S. Forest Service environmental impact statement was due to be published.

San Carlos Tribal members run to advocate for Oak Flat

The group is running from the religious site to Phoenix before a court hearing discussing the area's future.
Border wall construction at Guadalupe Canyon in southeastern Arizona.

After months of border wall construction, a look at the damage done

As President Biden takes the helm, conservation groups take stock of the border wall’s environmental impacts.
Joseph R Biden, Jr

A look at border, environmental changes likely under new administration

President Biden’s executive orders and action on various issues could bring changes to Arizona.
Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Lauren Redniss on "Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West".

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The hidden history of Tucson's Barnum Hill; living with dementia during the pandemic; and a short story read by Aurelie Sheehan.
The Bighorn Fire burns in the Santa Catalina Mountains on June 16, 2020.

Arizona's 2020 wildfire season among worst in past decade

2,520 wildfires burned across the state, 82% human caused
The view of the snowcapped Santa Catalina Mountains at Campbell Avenue and Skyline Drive in Tucson Jan. 25, 2020.

Winter storm could be 'most significant' of the season

Summerhaven sees 14 inches of snow, while an average two-tenths of rain fell on the Tucson Metro area Monday.
Composed of images taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1995 and 1998, this reprocessed image of the icy Jovian moon Europa shows cracks, ridges, “microchaos,” and more. We now believe that Europa, like several other moons in the solar system, is an ocean world. Due to heat caused by Jupiter’s gravitational push-and-pull, there is liquid salt water beneath the ice, water that may contain life.

"Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight".

Also on Arizona Spotlight: "DUSTWUN", a film about life, death and trust on the U.S. / Mexico Border.
Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Controversial Oak Flat mine moves closer to reality

Oak Flat, sacred to the Apache and other tribes, sits over a huge reserve of copper.
The proposed site of the Rosemont Copper Mine.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers weighs its authority over Rosemont Mine

The corps said it would consult with local tribes before making the decision, then it rescinded the invite.
This stretch of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah is currently in extreme drought.

Predicted Arizona dry year could impact trees, cause fires

After driest year on record in 2020, no relief is in sight

Afro Herper

Earyn McGee is a lizard-loving PhD who's changing the idea of what it means to be a scientist. (07:15)

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