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The Ozark Hellbender Is Finding Its Way Back to Missouri’s Rivers
Captive breeding, careful monitoring, and cleaner stream habitat are giving one of North America’s largest salamanders a better chance to survive in the wild.
Read more →Octavia E. Butler: How a Pasadena Writer Made the Future Speak to the Present
From a public library in Pasadena to the highest honors in science fiction, Octavia E. Butler built stories that asked difficult questions—and gave generations of readers new ways to imagine…
Read more →Reported Five-Foot Flash Flooding Overwhelms a Prescott Valley Neighborhood
A July 20 report described flash flooding reaching five feet in a Prescott Valley neighborhood, underscoring the severity of a fast-moving local emergency while leaving important questions about damage and…
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Acker Park: The Prescott Preserve That Makes Room for a Wilder Kind of City Life
On Prescott’s west side, Acker Park offers a compact lesson in how open space can protect quiet, wildlife habitat, and everyday access…
Read more →South Central Phoenix’s New Rail Line: How a Transit Project Is Rewriting Everyday Distance
Phoenix’s South Central Extension is bringing light rail down Central Avenue and connecting it to a new downtown hub. The project is…
Read more →The Federal Writers’ Project: How America Put Its Stories to Work
During the Great Depression, the United States hired thousands of writers, editors, researchers, and interviewers to document the country’s places, people, and…
Read more →Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona: How Ordinary Time Becomes a Lasting Gift
In a world full of urgent needs, mentoring offers a quieter form of kindness: showing up, paying attention and giving a young…
Read more →The Goblin Shark: The Deep-Sea Predator With a Jaw That Shoots Forward
Far below the surface, a rare shark hunts in near darkness with a long snout, electric sensors, and one of the strangest…
Read more →The Elwha River Is Running Free Again—and Life Is Returning With It
After two dams were removed from Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, salmon, sediment and native forests began reclaiming a river that had been divided…
Read more →Petrified Forest National Park: How Arizona Turned Deep Time Into a Public Landscape
Across eastern Arizona, fossilized trees, painted hills, ancient villages, and a vanished highway come together in a national park that makes Earth’s past feel close enough to walk through.
