Read UA study to improve storm predictions, written by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram and published in the Green Valley News: “Even after the summer monsoon, most of Southern Arizona remains in severe drought. This lack of rain is likely to continue or intensify into 2012, according to the National Weather Service. The chaotic summer […]
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, by Andrew Ross, Oxford University Press, 2011, 312 pages. Review by Paul M. Ingram The cause remains a mystery, but in early October 1947, a fire incinerated the entire Phoenix streetcar fleet. The city, suddenly without a public transport system had two choices: rebuild the […]
By Curtis Prendergast – In addition to providing news about the people and places of the Sonoran Desert, the Chronicle also produces documentaries. After making one award-winning documentary about life on the Arizona / Sonora border, Another Side of the Border, and a documentary about the experiences of Latino immigrants in New York City,Beyond the […]
Below is a documentary produced by Austin Counts, Curtis Prendergast, and Kirsten Boele. Work on the documentary began in January 2010 and involved traveling to various places in the Arizona / Sonora borderlands, including the Tohono O’odham reservation, the Colorado River Delta, and the border cities of Ambos Nogales and San Luis. The purpose of […]
By Paul Ingram – Like gasoline, water is the fuel of the modern West. In addition to water for drinking, water is consumed in massive amounts by residences, by manufacturing, and electricity production. However, the forces of climate change may decrease the available water so significantly that the West will be forced to both conserve […]
May 17, 2012 by pmingram
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