Sustainable Communities Program at NAU

New research in New Mexico shows that black bears thrive in forests renewed by fire — especially when it means more berries, acorns and cover.

A creature inhabits northern Arizona that has every appearance of a diminutive rhinoceros.

After sunset, the eerie choruses of coyotes are among the most iconic sounds of the American West.

Archaeologists are using advances in technology to analyze fragments of turquoise found at the ancestral Hopi villages of Homol’ovi. They're working with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office to reveal the story of the origins of these iconic blue-green stones.

Fire lookout towers didn't exist in Arizona in the early 1900s. Instead, firefighters use tall ponderosa pines near mountain tops or other strategic viewpoints.

The Four Corners potato fed people 10,000 years ago and now the ancient, nutrient-packed spud is drawing new interest.

No one expects to see trees that look like jewels in the high desert of Arizona. But that’s exactly what visitors find in the Petrified Forest National Park – ancient logs preserved for millennia by a process that transfigured them into rare and beautiful stones.

The mighty saguaro cactus is both a cultural and ecological icon.

If you find a bird feather – how can you tell which species it belongs to? An ornithologist in the Forensic Laboratory at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pondered this question.

CO₂ levels topped a record high of 430 ppm in May. It’s bad news for ecosystems, but could mean wetter summers for some regions.