Sustainable Communities Program at NAU

In 2020, Manna’s new strategic plan was just being implemented when the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread, creating a high level of food insecurity in the local community, across the Colorado Plateau and around the world. Manna always had a small kitchen garden on the premises, but with skyrocketing rates of hunger, they decided to join forces with the Garden Project, a food sourcing network of community and school gardens.

Nearly a hundred ice-containing lava tubes have been found in El Malpais National Monument. One in particular, Cave 29, has the right seasonal conditions to keep ice frozen year-round deep inside it.

Kitchens all over the Southwest this time of year are filled with the irresistible scent of tamales steaming on the stove.This Earth Note originally aired…

There’s a movement in Flagstaff to change the name of a downtown street with a controversial moniker. City officials are considering several community…

Fans of the prickly pear cactus might be familiar with recipes for cactus jelly, cactus candy, and fried cactus pads or nopalitos. But how about a recipe…

Floating down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon can be a leisurely, relaxing experience. But for a handful of river runners, speed is the real…

Biocrust is a vital, but fragile material that covers a good portion of the soil surface on the Colorado Plateau. This “living skin” is a complex…

When a warm storm front moves over a snow-capped mountain range, floods often follow. These events aren’t common on the Colorado Plateau, where winter…

Anyone attempting to map the Grand Canyon faces a big job. It is immense in size, intricate in topography, and not easy to get around in.Bradford Washburn…

Owlflies first appeared in the fossil record during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago. They look like a cross between a butterfly and…