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An extremely rare Mojave River western pond turtle was recently observed by U.S. Geological Survey scientists and staff from The Living Desert Zoo and...

Research on desert tortoises has received some press in Popular Science and the LA Times. SBSC scientists and their collaborators have been studying...

How a wind energy facility is designed can influence the behavior of animal predators and their prey, according to a recent study published in The...

The Camp Verde Bugle interviewed several SBSC scientists about the 40-pound nonnative snapping turtle that had to be relocated to a new home.

Mike Duniway and Becky Mann were interviewed by KZMU, a community radio station located in Moab, UT. They discussed a strategy that uses 6" tall...

Almost all of the turtles living in a southern California lake died following a large fire and years of drought, according to a new U.S. Geological...

The Arizona Daily Sun published an article about a recently published paper that investigated the consequences of altered temperature and moisture...

The Arizona Daily Sun published a piece about the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) by USGS researchers in Flagstaff.

High Country News recently published an article titled, “The biocrust conundrum”. The piece focuses on the recently published paper, “Albedo feedbacks...

Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil organisms...