New Mexico In Depth (https://nmindepth.com/category/environment/page/6/)
In the desert Southwest, an immense amount of tinder sits on top of a drier landscape in a climate that’s warmer than at any time in the past 1,000 years, scientists believe. Last year’s Silver Fire in the Gila National Forest illustrates a shift that’s already taking place to new ecosystems people living today haven’t seen before.
Click on the headline to listen to the Native America Calling episode on water that New Mexico In Depth helped produce.
New Mexico In Depth helped produce an episode of the national radio program Native America Calling on water that airs Wednesday.
July 16 will mark 35 years to the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke, releasing 94 million gallons of radioactive waste into the Puerco River, which flowed through nearby communities.
Click on the headline to listen to the episode of Native America Calling on protecting sacred places that New Mexico In Depth helped produce.
Building off her previous reporting for New Mexico In Depth and elsewhere on efforts to preserve Mount Taylor, reporter Laura Paskus helped produce an episode of Native America Calling on preserving sacred places that airs Friday.
The state’s high court has upheld efforts to protect Mount Taylor in western New Mexico as an area that is sacred to five Native American tribes.
On Friday, the state announced it was freeing up $2.8 million in funding for flood relief efforts for Santa Clara Pueblo. But almost $12.5 million still remains unspent from the 2011 and 2012 federal flood declarations.
The Navajo Nation’s recent purchase of a coal mine near Farmington highlights the challenges confronting the Nation as it navigates 21st-century energy economics while trying to provide jobs for its people.
A recent article in the Ruidoso News touches on the conservation efforts of Mescalero Apache youth, and the barriers they have to overcome when it comes to protecting special places.