prompting the nickname “Sky Islands.” A unique array of geographic, topographic and climatic influences create a bewildering variety of plants and animals here, many imperiled or found nowhere else.

The mountains comprise a piece of the Madrean Archipelago, also known as the Madrean Sky Islands. The "islands" that make up the forested mountain ranges are separated by deserts and arid ...

These Sky Islands, or Madrean Archipelago, are home to unique wild communities found nowhere else in the world. These borderlands mountains harbor species that could not otherwise live in such hot, ...

Aug. 21, 2024 — Biologists have discovered a new species of tarantula from the Madrean Sky Island biodiversity hotspot in southeastern Arizona. This remarkable new species is endemic to the ...

Aug. 21, 2024 — Biologists have discovered a new species of tarantula from the Madrean Sky Island biodiversity hotspot in southeastern Arizona. This remarkable new species is endemic to the ...

Residents on Rum are hoping it will be recognised as a Dark Sky Island. They have been preparing an application to the International Dark Sky Association. It combats light pollution worldwide ...

CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST — Oak leaves crackled under foot as two birders trudged uphill into a canyon that, on a typical ...

The eruption on Indonesia's Flores island killed several people and forced thousands of villagers from their homes as they fled the lava, gravel and ash spewing from the volcano.

The secretary (Gloria Stuart) to an assistant DA (Michael Whalen) tries to prove a man innocent. Doyle: Paul Kelly. Peter: Robert Kellard. Lucy: June Storey. Marty: Leon Ames.

A former Renaissance Cruises expedition ship, Island Sky joined Noble Caledonia in 1992 and helped establish the company's reputation for quality, luxurious expedition cruises in predominantly ...

Migrating birds 'out of sync' and hungry | The remarkable migration of the black swift | How birds get their colors | Trouble in Arizona's Sky Islands | The turkey vulture as meteorologist| A need ...