+3 Columnists Alert Top Story Spotlight on Climate: The fate of Flagstaff's Purple Martins is global ERIKA HINGST-ZAHER and C. LOREN BUCK May 15, 2025 As May unfurls across northern Arizona, the symphony of spring grows richer each day. The ponderosa forest awakens with the scent of warming e…
Columnists Alert Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Climate change, wildflowers and pollinators DAVID INOUYE Apr 17, 2025 In 1973 several of us, who were graduate students or friends at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Gothic, CO, decided to coll…
Columnists Alert Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Breaking the gridlock in northern Arizona's solar energy economy ERIN MAHAN Mar 20, 2025 Driving north on Highway 89, I saw afternoon sunlight glinting off an array of ground-mounted solar panels. They glistened atop our new March …
Columnists Alert Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Uncovering the compounding costs of climate change STEFAN SOMMER Feb 20, 2025 Is climate change already affecting our economy, or is that just some future thing? If it is already affecting our national economy, how big i…
Columnists Alert Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Snow fail, and the state of world climate in 2025 STEFAN SOMMER Jan 16, 2025 The Earth’s climate is changing faster now. What is happening, and what options do we have? Past scientific projections were too conservative.…
Columnists Alert Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Rudolph and friends need to get around STEFAN SOMMER Dec 19, 2024 We give thanks as Rudolph and Santa prepare for their global journey of giving. Of course, we wish them all the best in this heroic endeavor. …
Columnists Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Pipeline through Navajo perpetuates environmental injustice ELEANOR SMITH Nov 20, 2024 Navajo traditional values and Diné Fundamental Laws are founded on the original teachings of how to live in balance with the Earth and for mai…
Columnists Top Story Spotlight on Climate: Got insurance? Climate change drives up costs KATHERINE ROLFE Oct 16, 2024 Do you have fire or flood insurance for your home or business? In some communities such insurance is getting harder to come by. In parts of Ca…
Columnists Top Story Spotlight on Climate: What's our greatest responsibility to future generations? BRYAN BATES Sep 19, 2024 From our nation’s beginning, we have had an ethic to provide our children and beyond with both a healthy economy and an environment that would…
+4 Local News Alert Top Story Ask a Ranger: 'It takes a village': The Museum of Northern Arizona at 96 years SUSAN DEAVER OLBERDING Special to the Daily Sun Aug 29, 2024 September 6, 1928 is a landmark date in Flagstaff because that was the day the doors first opened at the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA). Fla…