Our Work Ahead After a Record-Breaking Winter and Spring
March 31, 2026Across the Sky Islands, the past six months have been a strange brew of climate disruption. Plants that typically flower during monsoon bloomed in November, and we had a record-breaking winter that felt…
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Daniel Moreno Graduates From UniSierra With Report on Precipitation at Rancho Nuevo
March 2, 2026Congrats to Daniel Moreno on completing his internship report and bachelor’s degree in biology at the Universidad de la Sierra. During his internship with Sky Island Alliance, advised by Mónica…
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An Offering for Día de los Muertos
October 23, 2025For much of this year, little rain fell across the Sky Island region. A dry winter in early 2025 gave way to a dry spring and disappointing monsoon season in…
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Flying Connections: The Story of Lesser Long-Nosed Bats and Agaves in the Sky Islands
September 24, 2024Guest blog by Axhel Muñoz Great charismatic mammals like the jaguar and ocelot grace the Sky Island mountains of Sonora and Arizona, but there are other endearing creatures that inhabit…
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Coffee Break: Using Sky Islands to Study Climate Change Across the Globe
November 16, 2023In this Coffee Break from Nov. 16, 2023, our presenter, Sarah J. Love, dives into how sky islands across the world are being used to study ecological and evolutionary impacts…
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Coffee Break: Using Sky Islands to Study Climate Change Across the Globe
November 8, 2023Join us to learn more about how sky islands across the world are being used to study ecological and evolutionary impacts of global climate change. Our presenter, Sarah J. Love,…
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Responding to the extinction crisis in the Sky Islands
May 15, 2019It’s been a tough month of bad news for wildlife, water, and all of us that call the Sky Island region home. Amidst a raft of destructive proposals, the UN…
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Defending science and taking action on climate change
April 20, 2017The proposed federal budget released in March brings into sharp focus the impacts of the Trump administration’s unwillingness to accept the settled science on climate change, or any science really….
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Our pledge to you: Sky Island Alliance will stand strong for binational conservation
January 31, 2017Over the past week we’ve been busy at Sky Island Alliance preparing to host a workshop in Sonora, Mexico where we will train a cohort of Mexican university students and…
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Pine flycatcher—harbinger of climate change, ray of hope for adaptation
October 4, 2016By Louise Misztal Five years ago I wrote—in the pages of this very newsletter—about the effects of climate change that were already visible in the Sky Islands and that the…
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