We are depleting the Rio Grande Basin faster and faster every year, the groundwater 15 times faster than the river waters, reports the first comprehensive study of consumption in the whole Rio Grande/Bravo Basin system.
I republish here (a bit late) an article by Danielle Prokop from Source NM, which is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Danielle Prokop reports on climate crisis on the Rio Grande, water litigation and health impacts from pollution.
Spaceport leery of revealing reasons about road closures during tests of Quarterhorse drone == the first major defense contractor for the headquarters for civilian space exploration.
The resolution to Texas’s suit against New Mexico for failure to deliver Elephant Butte water will depend on New Mexico curtailing its overuse. What we, as a whole, agree to do is laid out in non-technical language in a linked article.
Yesterday, I was attacked going out of my driveway by my neighbor’s dog. The standoff lasted half an hour before I was able to make her back off, but I was confined to my house the rest of the day, not wanting to confront her snarling and yapping lunges again.
Doña Ana County has approved the construction in Santa Teresa (near El Paso) of the $165 billion Jupiter Project. What does that mean?
Everyone agrees that America changed with the election and re-election of our present President, but they all disagree about what that change is and if the change is good, bad, or ugly. My two-cents worth is that American eugenics has changed to pop-eugenics, and pop-eugenics rules the day.
On August 19, State Engineer Elizabeth Anderson denied the mine's application to transfer water rights for use at Copper Flat Mine. This article reports on the reasons for her decision and analyzes some consequences of her action.
Linked article: Remember that July 2021 flight at Spaceport America that had Sir Richard Branson on board? Virgin Galactic didn't report what went wrong for a few weeks--the flight went off course. Investors sued, and won, claiming the company exaggerated flight safety, jacking stock prices that subsequently fell.
High cost of home insurance is here to stay. I link to several recent articles on homeowners' insurance, its relation to climate change, its relation to banking, to construction, to real estate, to what the state is doing about this problem. I try to explain those relationships.
Our President has created a "sovereign wealth fund," which considers all government holdings as assets, investments for return of capital. This business enterprise immediately turns the federal holdings from their original purpose of public service into assets to be used to make money. Public land is now an asset.
The President's attack Dog-e often mentions that he has Asperger Syndrome. What does this actually mean, and why should we think about it?
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