Fifty grades of shade
MaRTy is an instrument that collects data about, and scientists use the information to help cities like Tempe and Phoenix understand what makes for th...
Arizona In Focus
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Arizona in Focus is a podcast from Cronkite News, the news division of Arizona PBS. Each season we dive deep into a particular topic or story to bring you stories you haven’t heard elsewhere.
Arizona golfer shares life on and off the green
Bobbi Lancaster is a skilled golfer, an author and a family doctor, but up until 2010, she had lived her life as a man. “I was in the closet hiding fr...
Arm-wrestling champ reflects on his journey
Travis Bagent is a professional arm wrestler from West Virginia who came to the desert in June to showcase his sport at the Arizona Arm Wrestling Cham...
Volcanic soil, old artillery shells challenge crews managing the Maroon Fire
Firefighters are controlling a wildfire near Flagstaff, but unusual circumstances complicate process.
‘Georgia cubes’ used to save Arizona fish
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is making “fish cities” to help fish that live in lakes around the state.
The heat is on: Ways coaches and athletic trainers keep athletes safe
School’s out for summer, but high school football players are sweating it out to prepare for fall games. And that can put their lives at risk in Arizo...
Hearing climate change
Garth Paine, who co-leads Arizona State’s Acoustic Ecology Lab, studies how sounds can help understand the environment and potentially help predict cl...
A different border crisis
People who live in Imperial Beach, California, in Naco and Nogales in Arizona and in Texas communities along the Rio Grande all say the same thing: Wh...
Trout in Arizona
In this episode of Arizona in Focus, we explain how upgrades to the Sterling Springs Hatchery will help save water and money in the state’s multibilli...
Bottled up: Brewers’ pitcher on a mission to cut single-use plastic
Read the news story at Cronkite News: https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/04/30/strike-out-waste/