http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 11. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/the-fading-arizona-town-of-gila-bend-bets-big-on-solar At last -- a place to put utility scale plants that won't ruin the desert. But will politics and the economy get in the way? No publisher Judith Lewis Mernit renewable energy Amargosa Farm Road project desert tortoises Frederick Buss industrial solar Debbie Lesko environmental movement insolation Abengoa Gila Bend, Arizona Solana California electricity supply Sonoran Desert housing crisis endangered species economic recovery Solar Millennium real estate bust irrigation, Solar Field BrightSource Energy endangered desert plants Eric Fitzer utility-scale solar projects water supply global warming photovoltaic panels Jan Brewer BLM lad energy transmission lines solar energy Arizona politics Big Solar Overlay Zone Arizona Public Service agricultural lan Mojave Desert Arizona Legislature Sempra Energy climate change Gila Bend, Arizona, 2012-06-04T15:10:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15561 When it comes to perfect starry nights, the West is always the winner No publisher Terri Likens Human Beings And Nature Stars light pollution meteor showers Perseids Leonids friendship camping sleeping outdoors Sonoran Desert canyon country deserts shooting stars astronomy 2010-02-05T09:25:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/281/14972 In his book, The Devil’s Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea tells the tragic story of a group of poor immigrants who tried to get to a better life, and died in the Arizona desert No publisher Ryan Slattery Socio-Economics Illegal immigrants Sonoran Desert coyotes people smuggling migrant workers border crossing Border Patrol 2010-02-05T09:21:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/276/14804 Charles Bowden’s book, Killing the Hidden Waters, which explores the Sonoran Desert world of the Papago Indians, has been re-released after 25 years No publisher Matt Jenkins Deserts Ecosystems Indian Culture Charles Bowden Papago Indians Sonoran Desert drought ak chin agriculture floodwater farming Native Americans Indian culture desert life 2010-02-05T09:57:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/258/14240 The Interior Department is considering restarting the Yuma Desalting Plant, and environmentalists fear the plant’s salty runoff could destroy Mexico’s Cienega de Santa Clara – the Sonoran Desert’s largest wetland No publisher Mitch Tobin Riparian Areas and Wetlands Yuma Desalting Plant Cienega de Santa Clara Colorado River Delta Sonoran Desert wetlands desalinization 2010-02-05T10:13:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16470 It’s not easy to wean Westerners away from their lush, traditional, turfgrass lawns, but with drought an increasing fact of life, Xeriscape gardening is finally catching on No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Water Plants Deserts Lawns bluegrass turf Chris Martin horticulture Arizona State University Polytechnic campus Williams Air Force Base drought Phoenix rainfall gardening suburbia backyards Sonoran Desert cactus communities landscaping aesthetics Ted Steinb 2011-12-08T23:34:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16300 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Officer John Schaefer is one of only two officers patrolling the 860,000 acres of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a thoroughfare for illegal immigrants and armed drug smugglers No publisher Michael Marizco Immigrants Wildlife Wildlife Refuges Border Patrol Illegal immigrants undocumented workers border crossers Carlos Alvarez Mexico Grupo Beta migrants thirst Sonoran Desert immigrant deaths heat water coyotes human smugglers Baboquivari Peak Arizona desert U.S. Mexico border 2011-11-11T21:54:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16299 Illegal border crossers face a dangerous journey filled with heat, dust, flies and thirst, and always the danger of capture and deportation No publisher Michael Marizco Deserts Immigrants Illegal immigrants undocumented workers border crossers Carlos Alvarez Mexico Grupo Beta migrants thirst Sonoran Desert immigrant deaths heat water coyotes human smugglers Baboquivari Peak Border Patrol Arizona desert U.S. Mexico border 2011-11-11T21:47:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/352/17175 Botanist Sue Rutman has had surprising success just yanking up buffelgrass, but herbicides remain the first line of defense No publisher Michelle Nijhuis herbicides exotic plants Deserts Organ Pipe National Sonoran Desert Monument ecosystems invasive plants desert Buffelgrass 2010-12-13T23:05:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/368/17651 The essays in Gary Paul Nabhan’s Arab/American celebrate the landscape, culture and cuisine of two great deserts: The Middle Eastern lands from which his ancestors came and the Sonoran Desert he now lives in. No publisher Evelyn Schlatter desert cuisines Arab/American deserts Deserts Sonoran Desert Middle East desert cultures Gary Paul Nabhan memoirs 2010-08-02T19:59:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15595 In Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge, Carol Ann Bassett pays homage to Organ Pipe National Monument and the strange beauty of the desert No publisher Lee Allen Deserts Carol Ann Bassett Michael Hyatt nature writing desert ecology Organ Pipe National Monument Sonoran Desert cacti Ed Abbey photographers 2011-03-31T22:32:56Z News Article