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The Rio Grande near Rio Bravo Boulevard in late June. New Mexico must prepare for long-term water shortages, climatologists and water experts told state lawmakers on Tuesday. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico’s current drought will end someday.
But the state must prepare for long-term water shortages, climate scientists and water experts told state lawmakers Tuesday.
Statewide drought is approaching the severity of a 16th century megadrought, said David Gutzler, climate scientist and professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico.
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Rising global temperatures, a consequence of greenhouse-gas induced climate change, make drought worse by affecting regional snowpack.
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A warning sign at the old Kerr-McGee uranium mill site is shown on open land in the foreground with Mount Taylor in the background near Grants, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press)
This time next July we are going to lose a key federal program, and you hardly even hear about it. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) will come to an end on July 11, 2022. We need our elected representatives in Congress to extend and expand that program before it runs out.
Congress first passed RECA in 1990. The idea was to help cover health costs for many of the communities exposed to nuclear radiation through U.S. nuclear weapons programs. Those programs began in the 1940s, most notably here in New Mexico with the first nuclear test in 1945. Above-ground nuclear tests would continue until 1962, and to support the thousands of new nuclear weapons being built an expansive uranium mining and proce
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Silbor, who also had offers from Northern Arizona and the Ivy League’s Pennsylvania and Columbia, threw for 2,348 yards and 18 touchdowns, completing 65% of his passes. He ran for 215 yards and four touchdowns.
“I love the atmosphere and the relationships that the coaches have with the players, and the one I am developing with them,” Silbor told the Arizona Republic. “I just thought New Mexico felt right after my visit early June. I finished all the camps I attended and I want to go into my senior season not having to worry about finding a home and focus on trying to get my second ring.”
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