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Arizona could get water from San Diego within 6 months
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Arizona could get water from San Diego within 6 months

  • Tony Davis
  • Updated 17 hrs ago

For Star subscribers: A new agreement signed by federal officials and leaders of water agencies in Arizona, California and Nevada could eventually lead to the transfer of potentially large amounts of Colorado River water between states.

Judge halts new Arizona groundwater-saving program
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Judge halts new Arizona groundwater-saving program

  • Tony Davis
  • Updated Jun 12, 2026

Judge Scott Blaney's ruling Tuesday marked the second time in t wo months he has overturned efforts by the Arizona Department of Water Resources to 

El Niño, an expected global weather powerhouse, is here
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El Niño, an expected global weather powerhouse, is here

  • Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver USA TODAY
  • Updated Jun 15, 2026

Federal forecasters have officially declared the arrival of El Niño, with NOAA warning the climate pattern could become one of the strongest on record. The development may influence weather worldwide, increasing the risk of extreme heat, drought, flooding and other climate impacts while also affecting hurricane activity and winter conditions across the United States.

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Coast-to-coast heat wave coming this week

  • Doyle Rice USA TODAY
  • Updated Jun 8, 2026

Summer heat is on the way from coast to coast, forecasters say, with high temperatures well into the 80s and 90s and even 100s in some areas.

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Column: Remembering Chicago’s Judith Barnard, half of a bestselling novelist team

  • Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
  • Jun 5, 2026

CHICAGO -- It is one of the great love stories in the rich literary history of Chicago. It concerns a writer named Judith Michael, who wrote nearly a dozen bestselling novels, beginning in 1982 with “Deceptions” and ending more than 20 years later with “The Real Mother.” Perhaps you read one. Millions of people did. Many others saw a film or television version of some of these books. What ...

Letter: Monitoring our planets  systems
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Letter: Monitoring our planets systems

  • Donald Plummer, Northwest side
  • Jun 3, 2026

The Trump administration has targeted several major weather, climate, and atmospheric monitoring networks for downsizing or complete dismantling:

Bathing in the cool natural pools of Oman
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Bathing in the cool natural pools of Oman

  • Andreas Drouve, dpa
  • Jun 1, 2026

MUSCAT, Oman — I can barely see the hole in the rock at the end of the last natural pool. “Just swim in,” says guide Mohammed Khalfan Al Riyami. My body just about fits through the narrow opening. But the passageway opens up a few meters further into a grotto with a small waterfall streaming down into the pool. There’s nowhere to stand and I hold onto the rocks with my fingers. I look around, ...

Letter: THE GREATEST GRIFT OF ALL
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Letter: THE GREATEST GRIFT OF ALL

  • Loyal M Johnson Jr, Oro Valley
  • May 26, 2026

The international committee producing the official United Nations climate scenarios has just determined that RCP 8.5, the study claiming that …

Advocates: Fast-track mine review puts Arizona owl habitat at risk
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Advocates: Fast-track mine review puts Arizona owl habitat at risk

  • Sarah Henry Arizona Republic
  • Updated May 28, 2026

An elusive threatened owl species also lives in Copper Creek Canyon, trail camera footage captured by the Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance shows.

Something weird and worrying is happening with rain, study finds
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Something weird and worrying is happening with rain, study finds

  • Doyle Rice USA Today
  • Updated Jun 11, 2026

New research shows that though the world sees more rain overall, it's getting drier at the same time. How can that be?

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