The Republic reviewed building codes for 40 Arizona cities and assigned each a climate score based on the efforts being made to make housing more sustainable.

Out of curiosity, I called Hunter’s Nursery in the town of Big Bear Lake to see how Japanese maples fared in Sunset Zone 1B, which is the coldest zone in Southern California.

Climate scientists prefer to use 50-100-year time spans to measure climate change, federal officials said. Changes like this are what you would expect in a warming world ...

Climate was an easy, abundant, low-cost product to sell. Twenty years and $330,000 in community funds put toward this “proven, prosperity-producing program,” according to TSC club fundraising ...

In Arizona, 978,519 acres burned, the largest number since 2011. “There is no scientific dispute about the factors that are causing wildfires to get bigger,” Falk said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map, updated Wednesday, shows the impact that climate change will have on gardens and yards across the country.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ” plant hardiness zone map ” was updated Wednesday for the first time in a decade, and it shows the impact that climate change will have on gardens and ...

Arizona may be immune from the devastating impacts of coastal hurricanes, but the state faces other climate risks that can be costly and deadly. Why it matters: As our warm seasons get hotter and ...

Boston University plant ecologist Richard Primack, who was not involved in the map project, said, “Half the U.S. has shifted to a slightly warmer climatic zone than it was 10 years ago." ...

As Arizona governor Doug Ducey’s term draws to a close, he’s rushing to cement his legacy: a bunch of battered, rusty shipping containers. Since Oct. 24, crews have double-stacked 900 of the ...