BIRDS
Cactus Wrens – Arizona’s very noisy state bird
Cardinals, Pyrrhuloxias and a cameo appearance by Phainopepla
Curve-billed Thrasher – a bold and inquisitive bird
Great Blue Herons in the desert
Nighthawks and Poorwills, birds of the night
Thick-billed Parrots in Arizona
Western Tanager – a flaming red-head‘
REPTILES
Horned Lizard’s clever defenses
MAMMALS
Creatures of the night – Ringtails
Creatures of the Night: The Bats
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/01/04/deer-of-the-desert/Deer of the Desert
Desert Museum gets new black bear
Kit Fox – another creature of the night
Mountain lion dietary supplementation plan
New Bighorn sheep lamb born at Desert Museum
New mountain lion takes over at the Desert Museum
Pack Rats are Desert Archaeologists
Wolf attacks on humans in North America
ARACHNIDS AND INSECTS
Carpenter Bees – black and gold and smelling like roses
Palo verde root borers are emerging
Pepsis wasps have the most painful sting
The Cochineal, a little bug with a valuable product
The life of Walkingstick insects
The Sex Life of Bruchid Beetles
Venomous Centipedes and Cyanide-Oozing Millipedes
VinegaroonThe life of Walkingstick insectss and Sun Spiders
AMPHIBIANS
Creature of the Night – Spadefoots
NATURAL HISTORY OF SONORAN DESERT
Are Mexican wolves in Arizona actually wolf-dog hybrids?
Some not so natural critters of Arizona
The Desert in Winter, what to look for
Thirteen venomous animals of the Southwestern desert.
PLANTS
Agaves provide food, fiber and adult beverages
Cactus water will make you sick
Chain-fruit and teddy bear cholla cactus
Chiltepin peppers, spice and medicine
Desert Broom – another medicinal plant
Desert Tobacco, a Pretty but Poisonous Desert Plant
Desert Willows provide emergency food and medicine
Devil’s Claw provides food, fiber and medicine
Guayacán a pretty flowering tree
Invasion of the Popcorn Flowers
Joshua Trees of the Mohave Desert
Medusa’s Head a strange and useful plant
Mesquite trees provide food, fuel, medicine, and more
Mormon Tea – a widely used medicinal plant
Oak trees of the Sonoran Desert region
Ocotillo – an aide to hummingbirds and geologists
Palo brea trees and their uses
Palo Verde trees about to turn the desert golden
Prickly Pear cacti – many varieties, many uses
Sacred Datura – pretty, poisonous, and hallucinogenic
Saguaro Cactus Icon of the Sonoran Desert
Spectacular flowers of the red Torch Cactus
Staghorn and Buckhorn Cholla Cactus
The Jojoba bush and its valuable oil
Yuccas provide food, fiber, and soap
GEOLOGY
A Brief Geologic History of Arizona Chapter 1 Precambrian
A Brief Geologic History of Arizona Chapter 2 Cambrian and Ordovician time
A Brief Geologic History of Arizona Chapter 3 Silurian to Permian
Arizona Geological History Chapter 4: Triassic Period
A brief geologic history of Arizona Chapter 5: Jurassic Time
A brief geologic history of Arizona Chapter 6: Cretaceous Time
A brief geologic history of Arizona Chapter 7, the Cenozoic Era
Anatomy of the March 23 landslide in Washington
Arctic methane scare – cancelled
Arizona Geological Survey to inventory landslides in Arizona
Arizona was #1 mineral producer in 2014
Breccia pipes of northwestern Arizona and their economic significance
Desert Varnish and its life forms
Geologic hazards in Arizona – Radon
Geologic History: PETM when it really got hot
Geologic Setting of Icelandic Volcanoes
Geology of Petrified Forest National Park
Interactive geologic map of Arizona
Manganese may be mined in Arizona
Mining stimulates Arizona economy
Mining lithium for batteries is no greener than mining copper
More perspective on Antarctica ice loss
Mystery of sliding rocks on Racetrack Playa
Old mines of the Tucson Mountains
Origin of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River
Proper remediation of acid mine drainage
Reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, another scary scenario
Some Surprises about the Copper Deposits near Green Valley
Sunset Crater – Arizona’s youngest volcano
Take a geology and logic test – Read the Rock
The “Unstoppable Collapse” of the West Antarctic ice sheet
The old Jacobs tungsten mill in Tucson
The Siberian Crater – a Pingo is what done it
The Great Arizona-Sonora Earthquake of 1887
The Pontatoc mine lost in a north Tucson neighborhood
The Basin & Range Province of North America
Uranium mining ban near Grand Canyon all politics, no science
Volcanic rocks of “A” Mountain and Tumamoc Hill
Where the Next Big American Earthquake and Tsunami Might Occur
Young Volcanic Fields of Arizona
EPA
EPA claims on dangers of particulate matter are false
U of A says Gold King Mine release will have no effect on lower Colorado River
Did the EPA cause the Colorado mine spill on purpose?
Economic consequences of EPA power plant regulations
Electric cars are neither green nor practical
EPA targets wrong cause of haze in Grand Canyon
EPA emission standards for trucks: heavy cost, no benefit
EPA says fracking does not harm drinking water supply
EPA conducted illegal and potentially lethal experiments on children
EPA targets wrong cause of haze in Grand Canyon
EPA’s own human experiments debunk health claims
EPA’s Clean Power Plan would disproportionally hurt the poor
Global warming may be an unintended consequence of the EPA rule on sulfur
Replace the Environmental Protection Agency
EPA’s Clean Power Plan would disproportionally hurt the poor
Global warming may be an unintended consequence of the EPA rule on sulfur
Replace the Environmental Protection Agency
CLIMATE
2014 was the third or sixth or 8000th warmest year
2014 the warmest? NASA now says never mind
A Very Brief History of Climate Change in the Sonoran Desert
American Tradition Institute sues University of Arizona
Analysis of the National Climate Assessment Report
Arizona Daily Star alarmed that Arizona summers are hot
California drought caused by nature and politics
Carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect
Celebrate Earth Day by tripling your carbon footprint
Claim: Arctic getting darker, making Earth warmer
Climate science, perpetual motion and squirrels
Comments on the Pope’s Encyclical
Drought and predictions of doom for the Southwest
Economists say it is okay to lie about climate change
Evidence that CO2 emissions do not intensify the greenhouse effect
Failure of climate models shows that carbon dioxide does not drive global temperature
Global warming and the Polar Vortex
Global Warming “Lost Pause” Update
Global warming may be an unintended consequence of the EPA rule on sulfur
Government climate science versus reality
Gulf Stream Slowing – just another unfounded climate scare
Holes in the Ozone Hole Hypothesis
Ice core bubbles and carbon dioxide – the Gospel according to AGW
IPCC scary stories and a dose of reality
Megadroughts and the Arizona Daily Star
Montini versus Ducey on climate change
National Climate Data Center adjusts data to erase warming pause
New paper on Earth’s albedo has some surprises
New NOAA data show cooling trend for last 10 years
NOAA data show an 18-year cooling trend in US
NOAA can’t find link between global warming and extreme weather
NOAA caught committing fraud in Congressional testimony about ocean acidification
Obama’s Climate Action Plan is Clueless and Dangerous
Polar Bear Population on the Rise Again
Political correctness and your carbon footprint
Predictions of an ice-free Arctic Ocean
Satellite data show that CO2 has almost no effect on global warming
Scientists claim to have directly measured carbon dioxide warming the Earth
Shrinking goats get researcher’s goat
Sierra Nevada snowpack – the larger picture
Solar cycle changes indicate a cooling period ahead
Some basic facts on carbon dioxide and climate
Study shows that greenhouse gas induced warming decreased in last 14 years
Study shows current warming not unprecedented
Surprising results from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory
The Bankruptcy of Climate Science
The Myth of Ocean Acidification by Carbon Dioxide
The 97 percent consensus of human caused climate change debunked again
The ocean ate my global warming – part 1
The ocean ate my global warming – part 2
UN IPCC Synthesis Report is a pack of lies
University of Arizona predicts that climate will change, proposes plan
University of Arizona Researchers Use Citizen Poll To Justify Climate Policy
Wacky Geoengineering Schemes to Control Climate
What keeps Earth warm – the greenhouse effect or something else?
White roofs, global warming, and unintended consequences
Wildfires and Warming – It’s complicated
GENERAL SCIENCE
An example of misleading headlines in medical research
Ancient potion kills superbug MRSA infections
Cold Case: What Killed the Mammoths?
Data presentation in Santa Catalina Mountains plant study misleading
Don’t leave children or pets in a parked car
Forest thinning may increase runoff and supplement our water supply
Genetically modified food, nothing to fear
GMO modified rice eliminates methane emissions and increases nutrition
Habitat niche modeling, predictions of extinction, and a dose of reality
Hype about Mercury in the oceans
On Gaia, A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
USGS claims that mercury and selenium are accumulating in the Colorado River
What the Arizona Daily Star left out of the Condor-DDT story
POLITICS
Bloomberg versus the Second Amendment
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2013/07/04/the-contract-with-america-how-our-constitution-came-to-be/Capitalism is not a zero sum game
Could storm water runoff be used to recharge our aquifers?
County economic plan lacks necessary maps
Endangered species listings based on questionable science and lack of independent review
ESA could halt American energy boom
Export-Import Bank represents crony capitalism
Happy birthday soon America, but we still have some complaints
Has the Fourth Amendment been repealed?
How is the Tucson Water Conservation Fund Money Spent?
Last American lead smelter closing
Mining royalties, another bad, job-killing idea from Raul Grijalva
Observations on Tucson’s $33 million budget deficit
Permitting, Economic Value, and Mining in the United States
Pima County still trying to scuttle Rosemont mine
Pima County bond election – Vote NO on proposition 430
Pima County spins its politically correct environmental programs
Plymouth colony tries and rejects collectivism
Pygmy owls and property rights
Raul Grijalva on witch hunt for climate skeptics
Reclaiming Americanism and the Constitution
Replace the Environmental Protection Agency
Rosemont and some troublesome cats
Sagebrush Rebel by William Perry Pendley
Should we amend the Constitution to balance the federal budget?
Sustainability indoctrination invades our colleges
The Flaws in the Endangered Species Act
The Real State of the Union – 2014
The dark side of Common Core Standards for education
The great budget end game ploy
Top UN official admits climate change is about transforming world economy
VA too busy being green to care for veterans
Whatever happened to Pima County’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan?
Your taxpayer dollars at work and play
ENERGY
A New Type of Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor
American Energy Renaissance Act
Avian mortality from solar farms
British study shows wind power generates only 2 percent of rated capacity
Cryogenic fracturing of shale to recover oil and gas
Economic consequences of EPA power plant regulations
Electric cars are neither green nor practical
EPA says fracking does not harm drinking water supply
EPA targets wrong cause of haze in Grand Canyon
Ethanol mandate fails economically and environmentally
Five reasons Arizona should repeal its renewable energy standards mandate
Highly Touted Green building is an energy hog
IER documents Obama administration actions that increase energy costs
Impact of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation
Is a proposed Tucson Metropolitan microgrid of solar energy feasible and cost effective?
Ivanpah solar plant wants to burn more natural gas
Ivanpah solar seeks government grant to pay off government loan
Just the Fracks book review Myths about hydrofracking
Obama Crony Capitalism and Green Tech Failures
Pima County Solar Project with Solon raises some questions
Pima County’s Solar Power Math
Prairie Chickens versus Wind Turbines
Renewable energy causes electricity cost to skyrocket
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2014/08/13/san-luis-arizona-to-get-1-5-billion-wind-power-generator/San Luis to get $1.5 billion wind/power generator
San Luis solar downdraft tower – Updates and Corrections
Sierrita natural gas pipeline controversy in Altar Valley
The effect of wind turbines on human health
The Price of Obama’s New Carbon Dioxide Emission Rules
The green dream in Europe turns black as renewable energy fails
The “Social Cost of Carbon” Scam
Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work’
UN admits that growing crops to produce biofuel is bad for environment
Wind turbine farm proposed for Willcox area
MISCELLANEOUS
Steel wool keeps mice out of the garage
Clean Tarnished Silver and Copper the Easy Way
Content bias at the Arizona Daily Star
Federal dietary recommendations may increase greenhouse gas emissions
Is TUSD a victim of victimhood?
Scam alert – fake Walgreens call
Sell more State Trust Land to help fund schools
The Michigan Left at Grant and Oracle