N.M. Science
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Climate change and Santa Fe’s watershed
Santa Fe has long been a model for aggressive and progressive water system management – most notably with the community’s watershed restoration work and its efforts to return some water... Read more »
How cooking made us human
This talk, at the University of New Mexico next Tuesday (Nov. 20) sounds interesting. From the news release: UNM Department of Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology present: “How... Read more »
Monday bird blogging: the prettiest view in Albuquerque
The cottonwoods in Albuquerque’s Rio Grande bosque have largely made the transition from their bright fall display – spectacular this year – to the drab browns of winter. But there’s... Read more »
Snow largely past, New Mexico prepares for a cold 24 hours
With snow reports ranging from none to as much as 4 inches in norther New Mexico mountain communities, the National Weather Services says the state’s winter storm is largely done.... Read more »
Background on the Los Alamos $41 million security system screwup
In this morning’s story on the new estimated cost overrun on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new security system at its plutonium complex, I mentioned lab director Charlie McMillan’s all-staff memo... Read more »
Winds first, maybe then some snow for New Mexico
Batten down the hatches! The National Weather Service Albuquerque office warns that high winds are on the way for New Mexico, the front edge of a winter storm that looks... Read more »
El Niño Looking Less Likely This Winter
The chances of El Niño, the climate pattern that tips odds to a wetter winter here, are dimming. In an advisory this morning (Thurs. 11/8/2012), the federal Climate Prediction Center... Read more »
Festival of the Cranes
The Festival of the Cranes at the Bosque del Apache runs from Nov. 13 – 18, and festival organizers, based on pre-registration for festival events, are expecting some 7,000 visitors,... Read more »
New Mexico’s first decent chance of mountain snow
As the details of the coming fall-winter storm begin to firm up, it looks like New Mexico has its first decent chance of snow of the 2012-13 season, according to... Read more »
Heading into a very dry winter in the west – right now, it’s the soil moisture
One month into the fall-winter-spring snow season is too early to panic. We’ve already essentially lost one out of the six available water supply-producing months (scary map of percent of... Read more »
Albuquerque Snow Still in the Forecast Picture – Barely
Chances are, based on the current forecast, that it won’t snow this weekend in Albuquerque. But that chance is not zero. As of this writing, the National Weather Service has... Read more »
More on the problems of the B61
Stephen Young has more on the problems posed by the delay and cost increase of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s work refurbishing the B61 nuclear bomb. While my story Sunday... Read more »
