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Hoatzins are some of the most unusual birds in the world, often called stinkbirds due to the side effects of their strange diet. They eat leaves, and have a specialized gut to help them digest their food. They are essentially flying compost heaps. Their young are some of the only birds in the world to have claws on their wings.

Rivers of Life: The Amazon

See the secret wildlife and remarkable people of the Amazon, from shamans to electric eels.
Archie is a big brown bat, and has been taken care of by Bob & Debbie Beucher since being rescued more than sixteen years ago.

Bat night at the Mission Garden

Also: A new facility in Nogales, Sonora to help migrants following the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy; and strangers find common ground with "One Small Step".
Looking west from Gates Pass towards Saguaro National Park West.

Tucson City Council opposes proposed Interstate 11

A resolution lays out the environmental and economic reasons for the opposition.
Arrows in an archery target at a range near Tucson.

Pima County to update the backstops in its archery ranges

The county will replace equipment in the Tucson Mountain Park and Southeast Regional Park archery ranges
Volunteers check voter registration at a voting station.

Group looks to increase voter registration of underrepresented Arizonans

The group sends registration forms to younger and minority voters.
Soon-to-be U.S. citizens taking an oath at a naturalization ceremony at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse in Tucson, February 2018.

Feds aim to cut processing times for immigration applications

Agency data shows a backlog of more than 700,000 citizenship applications.
Cassini's view on approach to Phoebe (left) and departure (right). The dark, roughly spherical object is roughly 16 times smaller than Earth's moon.

Saturn's rings, moons raise questions about solar system, water origins

A discovery could prompt a rethinking of how the solar system formed.
Rescue crews during 2017 flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Texas

UA storm watchers predict active hurricane season

Annual forecast model shows Atlantic conditions similar to dangerous 2017.
Kids having lunch.

Arizona drops one spot to 46th in report on children's well-being

The annual National Kids Count grades Arizona poorly on children's health, education and security.

Immanuel Abraham

The violinist credits music with saving his life.
The control tower at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

Legislation would fund Air Force cleanup of unregulated chemicals

The perfluorinated chemicals have been found in municipal wells near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, right, is chairman of Mexico’s lower congress, la Cámara de Diputados.

Mexico deploys National Guard to stop migrants

Critics say the deployment is against the law and is intended to serve U.S. interests.
Tonatiuh Guillén became commissioner for Mexico’s National Institute of Migration in December 2018.

Mexican immigration commissioner quits amid immigration crisis

Tonatiuh Guillén gave no explanation for his unexpected resignation.

Narrative Medicine

Young medical students learn the art of empathy and compassion.
Two women fill out their ballots at a polling place in Pima County.

New Arizona voter registration form aims for clarity

The changes come as the result of a settlement of a lawsuit.
Tucson mayoral candidate Regina Romero sits for an interview at Arizona Public Media on June 12, 2019.

Arizona 360 interviews Tucson mayoral candidate Regina Romero

The Democrat has served on City Council for over a decade.

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