Articles for tag: AmericanMountains, MountainRanges, RockyMountains, SierraNevada

a mountain range with a pink sky in the background

7 American Mountain Ranges with “Pink Sky” Phenomena – Why It Happens

Suhail Ahmed

  Across the American West and East, dawn sometimes arrives like a hush before a concert, when peaks blush rose and the sky glows with a soft, otherworldly tint. That fleeting pink is more than a postcard moment; it’s a precise atmospheric signal known as alpenglow. For centuries, it puzzled observers who wondered whether mountains ...

brown humming bird flying in the air

How Climate Change Is Pushing Hummingbirds Higher Into the Rockies

Suhail Ahmed

By late summer, when thunderheads pile up over Colorado’s spine, the high meadows flash like neon with paintbrush, columbine, and larkspur – and tiny, iridescent bodies flicker through the bloom. Yet the show is changing. Warmer springs and drier valleys are re-timing the mountain clock that guides nectar and the birds that chase it, nudging ...