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We are still sore from our climb the previous day, but we don't want to waste a minute of our precious time in this area, so we head for the Canyon of the Ancients Monument early in the morning. Oops, not early enough. We discovered Sand Canyon is a place to park and then you…
Hispanic and Basque sheepherder culture is etched in the vast aspen forests of Haycamp Mesa in the San Juan National Forest. An archaeology survey required for a 2018 logging project revealed artistic...
Inside the Dirty, Dangerous World of Carbon Flooding 17/04/2021 An active oil pumpjack east of Andrews, Texas, November 2009. Photo: Zorin09/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Around the world, scientists and advocates call for keeping carbon in the ground as a means of staving off climate change. But in the Southwestern United States – mainly in Colorado and New Mexico – a mainstay of obtaining more oil is facilitated by doing the exact opposite: drilling pure reserves of carbon dioxide out of the ground. After it’s extracted from these natural-source underground fields, the gas t...
Around the world, scientists and advocates call for keeping carbon in the ground as a means of staving off climate change. But in the Southwestern United States — mainly in Colorado and New Mexico — a mainstay of obtaining more oil is facilitated by doing the exact opposite: drilling pure reserves of carbon dioxide out of the ground. After it’s extracted from these natural-source underground fields, the gas then gets piped to the Permian Basin, the nation’s top-producing oil fields of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. There, oil companies use the CO 2 to flood their wells, forci...