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A paintbrush flower found in a single location on the border of Hidalgo County, New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua in Mexico could soon be listed as endangered. The swale paintbrush’s range has decreased due to climate change and grazing and, on Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a notice in the […]
A team from Sandia National Laboratories is working on a filtration system that will remove PFAS chemicals from water. “What’s unique about (PFAS chemicals) is that they have a carbon fluorine bond, and that carbon fluorine bond is very strong. So not many things readily break it down,” Andrew Knight, a Sandia chemist, said in […]
A recent uptick in natural gas prices has made it more profitable to drill in the San Juan Basin, leading to one well in northwestern Rio Arriba County producing more gas than any well has produced in the last half century of San Juan Basin extraction. The well, known as Rosa Unit #647H, is located […]
White-nose syndrome, a fungus that has decimated bat populations in parts of the country, has been found in bats in New Mexico. In late April, crews took samples from two dead bats and two living bats found in caves managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Lincoln and De Baca counties. Both dead […]
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is considering allowing public lands to be leased for conservation purposes.