topic: By John Fleck

Sunday, May 11, 2008 Scientists Decode Dust Bowl By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     The dust storm that rolled across Clayton on May 29, 1937, looked like it wanted to swallow the world.     For farmers across mid-America, in some sense, the dust storm and a host like it really did swallow their ...
full story 05/11/08

Saturday, May 10, 2008 New Mexico on Alert to Battle Invasive Mussels By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     State and federal officials are gearing up for battle to keep invasive quagga and zebra mussels from reaching New Mexico's waterways.     The small clamlike creatures, which can foul up water ...
full story 05/10/08

Thursday, May 8, 2008 Senate Panel OKs Navajo Water Deal By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     A U.S. Senate committee approved a deal Wednesday to build a water pipeline to waterless Navajo communities in western New Mexico and resolve a legal debate over the Navajo Nation's share of the region's ...
full story 05/08/08

Monday, May 5, 2008 Albuquerque's Forgotten Blast By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     MESA DEL SOL - There is not much to see on this windy scrap of desert south of Albuquerque, which is probably a good thing.     On the eastern edge of the planned Mesa del Sol community south of Albuquerque ...
full story 05/05/08

Friday, May 02, 2008 Poll Data Trumps Science on Global Warming By John Fleck/ Of the Journal       Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce aren't particularly hot on global warming.        The two New Mexico members of Congress, both of whom hope to replace Pete Domenici in the U.S. Senate, made their ...
full story 05/01/08

Monday, April 14, 2008 Prehistoric Peek in N.M.; Rock Salt Holds Oldest Known Bit of a Once-Living Organism By John Fleck Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer     A piece of rock salt from deep underground in southern New Mexico has yielded the oldest known bit of a formerly living ...
full story 04/13/08

Monday, April 14, 2008 Prehistoric Peek in N.M.; Rock Salt Holds Oldest Known Bit of a Once-Living Organism By John Fleck Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer     A piece of rock salt from deep underground in southern New Mexico has yielded the oldest known bit of a formerly living ...
full story 04/13/08

Sunday, April 13, 2008 Bureau of Reclamation Keeping An Eye on San Marcial as Epic Snowpack Begins to Melt By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     SAN MARCIAL - Water was already lapping at the side of the levee last week as Carolyn Donnelly drove down a dirt road parallel to the Rio Grande. The ...
full story 04/13/08

Saturday, April 12, 2008 Sandia Regrets E-Mail On 'White Privilege' By John Fleck Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer     Sandia National Labs sent workers a memo Friday trying to defuse anger over an announcement sent to workers this month suggesting that all white people are ...
full story 04/12/08

Saturday, April 12, 2008 New Mexico Suggested for Reactor Waste By John Fleck Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer     Southeastern New Mexico, already home to the nation's first deep underground nuclear waste disposal site, might also be a good site for radioactive nuclear reactor ...
full story 04/12/08