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U of A researchers have created the first astronomical equivalent of a fingerprint database for satellites, a critical first step toward easily identifying human-made objects in the increasingly crowded geostationary orbit.
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UA Research Data Repository (ReDATA) Training
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In this virtual session, learn about the University of Arizona Research Data Repository (ReDATA) and how you can use it to archive and share research datasets associated with...
on Oct 18
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New U of A Initiative Leads the Way to Combat Extreme Heat
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The new initiative within the Arizona Institute for Resilience will unite and expand existing heat-related programs at the University of Arizona, positioning the university as a global leader in heat resilience through research, education, and outreach.
on Oct 18
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Ice age clues point to more extreme weather patterns in our future | University of Arizona News
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A new U of A-led study combines data from ancient shells with advanced climate modeling to shed light on how El Niño weather patterns might change in a warming world.
on Oct 7
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Planet-forming disks, maelstroms of gas and dust swirling around young stars, are nurseries that give rise to planetary systems, including our solar system. U of A astronomers have discovered new details of gas flows that sculpt those disks and shape them over time.
on Oct 5
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An international group of researchers, including U of A astronomers, observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
on Sep 25
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A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today – but humans and animals cannot adapt fast...
on Sep 20
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OPINION: We should acknowledge Batman is Jewish
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Batman is Jewish, and the company publishing him rarely ever acknowledges that fact, if they do at all. Opinions writer Kate Herreras-Zinman argues for more explicit Jewish representation in the DC Universe.
on Sep 20
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‘We are all only one’: Linguist Corey Roberts is working to save his ancestral language.
on Sep 15
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Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are important for contemporary debates on energy...
on Sep 1
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De- and re-peasantization through wolves: A more-than-human political ecology of agrarian change
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While wolves are often described as 'ecological engineers', this article reframes the image of this predator as a socioecological engineer. Adopting a more-than-human political ecology perspective, I highlight the imbrication of wolf agency with the political economy of farming in co-shaping...
on Sep 1
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The article showcases the nature of climate colonialism by examining the transitions in heirloom seed conservation practices in the context of climate change. Insights for this article are drawn from an action research project implemented among heirloom seed keepers and small-scale farmers in...
on Sep 1
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Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
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In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American...
on Sep 1
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Several governmental and nongovernmental institutions in Guatemala have been tasked with tackling the country’s problem of food insecurity. Although food insecurity has a variety of causes, the issue of climate change is beginning to attract initiatives to address the problem. Thus, Guatemalan...
on Sep 1
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Oil and gas corporations and their lobbyists are increasingly appropriating the language of racial justice, anti-imperialism, and decolonization to block climate action and advance a polluting, extractive, and neocolonial agenda. This article argues that these appropriations are a form of...
on Sep 1
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Provincializing energy transitions
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The colonialism inside today's practices of energy transition becomes evident both from experiences of close listening to participants in grassroots struggles over extractivism and livelihood and from an engaged examination of the histories of energy and transition. In turn, greater awareness of...
on Sep 1
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Pathways to decolonize North-South relations around energy transition
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Climate coloniality manifests in the violent appropriation of territories in the Global South, including the extraction of strategic minerals such as copper and molybdenum to service energy transition and green growth for the major world powers. Peasant communities in the Intag river valley in...
on Sep 1
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Indigenous onto-epistemology and the Niyamgiri Movement in India
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Climate crises and other manifestations of environmental degradation are inextricably linked to the universalizing technoscientific paradigm underpinning capitalist industrialization and modernization. This study aimed to problematize the modern/colonial ontological dualism underpinning...
on Sep 1
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Mexico City's municipal "green" bonds (MGBs), issued in 2016 and 2018, financed two water infrastructure projects embedded in the city's hydrosocial cycle (the reciprocal transformation of water and society). The issuance of the MGBs created an entanglement of "green" debt and water circulation,...
on Sep 1
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Decolonizing refugeehood: The rise of climate refugees as a new legal subjectivity
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This article examines the misrecognition of climate refugees as a form of climate coloniality, through the lens of decolonial environmental justice (EJ). I address two research questions: (1) Why is climate refugeehood a matter of decolonial EJ? (2) How can decolonial EJ contribute to overcoming...
on Sep 1
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A colonial lack of imagination: Climate futures between catastrophism and cruel eco-optimism
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Public debates about climate futures increasingly oscillate between the extremes of catastrophism and cruel eco-optimism. While different social imaginaries of climate change are part of sociological debates, to date this specific dynamic has not been extensively explored. By examining recent...
on Sep 1
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Past shadows and gender roles: Human-elephant relations and conservation in Southern India
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Some conceptual thinking about human-wildlife relations has lacked translations into empirical studies with an in-depth enquiry into social, cultural, economic and ecological aspects. This study explores human-elephant relations in a cohabited landscape in the Western Ghats of India, with a...
on Sep 1
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Researchers believe their ultrafast microscope will lead to groundbreaking advancements in physics, chemistry, bioengineering, materials sciences and more.
on Aug 26
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The Voca poetry readings archive is now accompanied by digitized captions, making one of the world's major poetry audiovisual archives fully accessible and searchable.
on Aug 23
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University of Arizona researchers developed a wearable device that can transmit health data 2,400 times the distance of Wi-Fi without significant network infrastructure.
on Aug 11
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Student internship offers taste of an AI-powered future | University of Arizona News
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The inaugural AI Core + Design Lab Summer Internship partnered with local employers to place students in a fast-paced startup environment and teach them to use AI tools.
on Aug 8
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Does a VP Pick Change the Race? Probably Not, UArizona Expert Says | University of Arizona News
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Presidential nominees have gotten to choose their running mates since the mid-20th century, says political scientist Barbara Norrander. But the top of the ticket still matters most.
on Aug 5
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This article explores the seemingly unlikely intersection of jaguar conservation and green extractivism in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The 'green' or environmental aspect of jaguar conservation, we argue, is largely manufactured, employing the qualities of ecosystems to market and advance...
on Jul 25
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"Hunting Africa": How international trophy hunting may constitute neocolonial green extractivism
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In the post-Cold War neoliberal moment of the mid-1990s, Safari Club International's (SCI) nascent but now defunct 'African Chapter' published a Strategic Plan for Africa. Its aim was to secure the "greatest hunting grounds in the world" for access by SCI's hunting membership, the core of which...
on Jul 25
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Major companies in the mining industry are strategizing to benefit from the expected rise in demand for energy "transition minerals" that underpin current technologies of decarbonization (such as batteries and wind turbines). This article elucidates their current strategies of accumulation...
on Jul 25
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The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction
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What is so-called 'green' extractivism and where did it come from? The introduction to this Special Section examines the origins and implications of the concept, linking it to a long history of exploitation, dispossession and (neo)colonialism under the guise of green-washing notions such as...
on Jul 25
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As the world gets warmer, the deployment of low-carbon infrastructure is seen as the cornerstone to mitigate the pressures created by fossil capitalism, prompting questions over what constitutes a 'just' energy transition. This has simultaneously broadened the discussion over what are the social...
on Jul 25
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'Environmentalists' tend to enthusiastically embrace new railway projects as desirable alternatives to more carbon-intensive aviation and road infrastructures. Yet, across Europe and beyond, communities and campaigners have resisted the building of high-speed railway projects and the violence...
on Jul 25
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Aesthetics of green dispossession: From coal to wind extraction in La Guajira, Colombia
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In La Guajira, Colombia, current projections for the reconfiguration of coal mining and proposals for decarbonization through wind energy have become central to the national political debate on energy transition. Several national and multinational companies have proposals for wind energy...
on Jul 25
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Green and climate colonialities: Evidence from Arctic extractivisms
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This article examines 16 environmental conflicts across the Arctic that demonstrate resistance to both climate and green extractive colonialisms. Resistance movements counter green-labelled developments, such as a 350 km road project in Ambler (Alaska) needed for copper extraction; large-scale...
on Jul 25
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Biodiversity conservation under green extractivism and armed neoliberalism in Colombia
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In the context of the global climate and ecological crisis, increasing pressure on governments and the private sector to act, combined with inertia and resistance to transformative change, has led to a new form of extractivism. Green extractivism refers to actions or activities that are promoted...
on Jul 25
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How your morning oats could help you manage your weight | University of Arizona News
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Researchers analyzed the impact of different fibers on gut microbiota – the community of tiny microbes living in the digestive system that are responsible for breaking down the food we eat.
on Jul 22
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The university's American Indian Language Development Institute was recently awarded a five-year $1.7 million U.S. Department of Education grant to establish the West Region Native American Language Resource Center.
on Jul 8
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A pair of climate-tracking trucks crisscrossed Tucson as part of a statewide project to understand the effects of extreme heat. U of A researchers will translate the data into policy recommendations and other ideas for communities to stay heat resilient.
on Jul 3
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OSIRIS-REx sample scientists took a deep dive into the rocks and dust returned from asteroid Bennu. They found that the sample is rich in carbon, nitrogen and organic compounds – essential components for life as we know it.
on Jun 28
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In this Q&A, Keith explains what heat governance is and why the University of Arizona may be at a "heat-shed moment" for heat research – uniquely positioned to be a leading institution.
on Jun 28
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In a new UArizona-led study, veterans who were paired with a service dog for just three months were 66% less likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
on Jun 9
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Researchers say nocturnal wakefulness deteriorates the brain's decision-making functions and reduces rational thinking during a time when negative mood is at its peak.
on Jun 2
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Combining a new imaging instrument with the powerful adaptive optics capabilities of the Large Binocular Telescope, astronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter's moon Io at a resolution never before achieved with Earth-based observations.
on May 31
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University of Arizona researchers, in collaboration with an international team of scientists, have discovered and confirmed the existence of the most distant galaxy ever detected. The secrets it contains challenge previous assumptions about galactic evolution.
on May 31
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A project led by Jason Jurjevich informed a law that lets homeowners remove unlawful restrictions from their property records.
on May 30
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Researchers at the Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction tested the pain-relieving ability of five terpenes with promising results.
on May 29
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"The Cable Ship" | Tomas Tranströmer - November 6, 1975
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by Harry Martinson. Performed in Swedish and English.
on May 29
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In the face of increasingly hotter temperatures across the U.S., UArizona heat research will help inform policy recommendations and other actions in communities nationwide.
on May 20