N.M. Science
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Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch
In a column last week on the notion of “beneficial use” in western water law, I quoted a wonderful little bit of business from a 19th century Colorado Supreme Court decision... Read more »
Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, in Bernalillo County’s South Valley
A cadre of federal, state, local government and neighborhood folks gathered on a recently harvested field this morning (Thurs. 9/27) to unveil the new name for the southwest’s first urban... Read more »
New Mexican to head EPA Region 6
New Mexican Ron Curry will take over as head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6, officials announced Friday. Curry, who ran the New Mexico Environment Department during the... Read more »
Comparing droughts
One of the questions raised by my stories this week on drought (worst two years in history and forecast to continue) is how the current drought compares to past droughts... Read more »
Classification follies
Back in 2006, the Department of Energy issued a formal memo declassifying the fact that the People’s Republic of China had obtained nuclear weapons design information about the Los Alamos-designed... Read more »
Losing our forests
Journalist Michelle Nijhuis, in this week’s Nature, visits the mountains of Northern New Mexico and friend-of-this-blog Craig Allen for a look at the stark future facing our forests: Across the American... Read more »
NM Drought Forecast To Linger
Drought in New Mexico – and across much of the western half of the continental United States – is expected to persist or worsen through the end of 2012, according... Read more »
Decision on Datil-Rio Grande water transfer case expected by end of the year
SOCORRO — A state judge will decide before the end of the year whether a proposal to pipe water from near the small town of Datil to the Rio Grande... Read more »
The need for the B61
Much of the discussion of late regarding modernization of the B61 nuclear bomb (here and elsewhere) has focused on rising costs. Jeffrey Lewis, writing in Foreign Policy, takes the story... Read more »
Driest, warmest 24 months in New Mexico history
The past 24 months, ending in August, have been the warmest and the driest in New Mexico history, with records going back to 1895. That was the starkest of a... Read more »
Washington Post on NNSA project management: “chronic poor planning”
The Washington Post’s Dana Priest takes a tour of the US nuclear weapons complex and the management problems attendant therein: Much of the blame for the soaring costs has fallen... Read more »
Monsoon watch: fading
Just as the beginning of the southwestern monsoon is a bit fuzzy, so the tail end. It’s mostly a July-August phenomenon in New Mexico, but it can start in late... Read more »
