Rose Houk
Earth Notes writerRose Houk is a Flagstaff-based writer and editor, specializing in natural history and environmental topics. Rose was a founding contributor of KNAU's Earth Notes and has written nearly 200 scripts for the series. She is also the author of many publications about national park and monuments, along with audio productions.
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Astrobiologist Daniel Apai turns to the natural world for solutions to climate change. Lately, he’s been investigating one of Earth’s most basic lifeforms—abundant ocean-dwelling algae called coccolithophores.
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If you’re one of those people who longs to have chickens in your backyard and fresh eggs in the skillet, Flagstaff is offering a little scratch as an incentive.
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There are many challenges in Western ranching these days—among them is whether a new generation will want to pursue the life. The New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp aims to attract young people with an interest in working in livestock and agriculture.
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In 2014, paleontologists found an incredible fossil site in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. It contained hundreds of tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, freshwater turtles, fish, flying reptiles, and more, locked in rock 76 million years old.
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The earth has always been front and center in the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning Indigenous author N. Scott Momaday. Over the course of a career spanning more than six decades, Momaday has produced a body of work that reflects his fidelity to the land—and the belief that language can reconnect people to it.
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It’s been known for a long time that many small mammals adapt to the desert’s heat by burrowing underground. New research shows that adaptation may give them resilience in the face of the West’s warming climate.