Saving Small Fish as Big US River Dries Up
The Rio Grande River is one of America’s biggest. But it is drying up in the state of New Mexico. And that is bad news for an endangered fish.
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The Rio Grande River is one of America’s biggest. But it is drying up in the state of New Mexico. And that is bad news for an endangered fish.
On a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande flows. The drivers weren't thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- On a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande flows. The drivers weren't thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust.
America's fifth-longest river went dry in Albuquerque last week. Habitat for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow went with it.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — On a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande River flows. The drivers weren't thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust.