I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
New Mexico’s Eastern Plains could see a second Dust Bowl caused by climate change, USA Today reported Friday. Oklahoma state climatologist Gary McManus is warning that changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change could be “catastrophic” for northeastern New Mexico, parts of Texas and Colorado, and much of Kansas and Oklahoma—the states most impacted during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warns in the article that this century could see another era of mass relocation by rural climate refugees fleeing drought, similar to the migration of farmers and ranchers who fled Oklahoma parts of surrounding states during the Dust Bowl.
