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On Thursday we celebrate Earth Day, a time to give thanks for our environment and to recommit ourselves to addressing the threats it faces.
In New Mexico, we are blessed with one of the most diverse environments in the world, from the forested Rocky Mountains in the north to the high plains in the east, from the tablelands and mesas in the west to the Chihuahuan Desert in the south.
But as in the rest of the world, our environment is threatened by climate change. Its effects are all around us: record heat, diseased forests, larger wildfires and mountain snowpacks that run off too quickly.