N.M. Science
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Drought watch: the view from El Paso
Elephant Butte Reservoir, on the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico, is nearly empty, currently 17 feet below last year at this time according to the US Bureau of Reclamation’s... Read more »
Sunday bird blogging, cormorant edition
Apologies for the mediocre quality of the picture (no telephoto lens on my iPhone) but that is a trio of neotropic cormorants sitting in a tree on an island in... Read more »
Anthropocene diaries: the Endangered Species Act and the silvery minnow
In big-think environmental circles, issues surrounding the “Anthropocene” – the notion that the entire Earth is fundamental human-altered, and the notion of “pristine nature” is a myth – is a... Read more »
Pantex: on schedule dismantling nukes, but infrastructure problems remain
In the drumbeat of bad news about National Nuclear Security Administration management problems, nuclear weapons dismantlement work at Pantex is going well, according to a report out this morning from... Read more »
Drought watch: Rain on Snow
I’m still sorting out how much snow fell in the high country from this storm, and how it might influence runoff forecasts. The short answer is that it was a... Read more »
A tenth of an inch of rain in Albuquerque: but how much did it rain at my house?
Yesterday’s storm brought a tad more than a tenth of an inch of rain at the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque airport rain gauge. But as readers often remind me, it... Read more »
Chuck Hagel and nuclear modernization
The modernization of the US nuclear arsenal (a major force in New Mexico’s economy, with two large weapons labs located here) may be emerging as the issue du jour in... Read more »
Re Ashton Carter as Energy Secretary? Never mind…
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter today (Friday 1/25/2013) squashed the rumors that he’s in line to become the next Secretary of Energy. Thanks to the AP’s Robert Burns for getting... Read more »
Drought watch: the great emptiness of Elephant Butte Reservoir
Warning: if you are disturbed by graphic depictions of drought, whatever you do, don’t buy next Tuesday’s newspaper. Unless this weekend’s storms are of Noachian proportions (in which case I’ll... Read more »
Drought watch: hey, at least it didn’t get any worse!
This is what counts for good news on the New Mexico drought front these days – a weekly Drought Monitor in which conditions stayed the same: “Stayed the same” means... Read more »
“Taos Hum” now the “Windsor Hum”?
I don’t know if the “Taos Hum“, that mysterious low-pitched northern New Mexico puzzle, has moved, or is now reproducing: The federal government is committing $60,000 to help two universities... Read more »
Wednesday Bird Blogging: Whitfield in Belen
Judy Liddell, author of Birding Hotspots of Central New Mexico, takes us on her blog this week to Whitfield Conservation Area, down in Belen, for a look at the winter... Read more »
