Diane Hope

A rapidly changing climate means there’s no longer a “typical” year on the Colorado Plateau. That’s confirmed by a long-term study of bugs in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico.

The Colorado Plateau is a place often thirsty for rain. But some of the soils in the region are water-phobic.

In recent decades northern leopard frogs have become refugees in their own land.

Millions of birds are killed every year by electrical power lines—especially in the wide-open country of the Colorado Plateau where power lines and poles are often all that’s available for birds to nest and roost on.

Northern Arizona University biologist Jason Wilder made a grisly discovery recently: a plant that ensnares and kills birds.