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Feds Will Soon Impose New Framework on Colorado River if States Can’t Agree How to Manage It

Amid the river’s worst water year on record and deadlocked negotiations over its future, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it will impose a new 10-year management plan if the states relying on the river don’t come to an agreement.

By Wyatt Myskow

A ‘Reforestation Pipeline’ in New Mexico Trains Seedlings to Survive in Burn Scars

By Tina Deines

New Mexico’s Time-Honored Irrigation Canals Face Existential Threat

By Tina Deines

Facing Drought and Low Snowpack, Rio Grande States Expect a ‘Challenging’ Year

By Martha Pskowski

Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain

By Martha Pskowski

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin

By Phil McKenna

A New Mexico Religious Pilgrimage Rode a Global Wave Hoping for Ripple Effects for the Environment

By Tina Deines

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas

By Martha Pskowski

Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

What the Rio Grande’s More Frequent Dry-Outs Mean for the Region’s Animals and Ecosystems

By Tina Deines

Conservation Groups Blast Trump’s Latest Choice to Head Up the Bureau of Land Management

By Kiley Price

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators

By Tina Deines

As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn

By Wyatt Myskow

Settlement Signed in Texas v. New Mexico Rio Grande Case

By Martha Pskowski

Burn Scars Can Exacerbate Flooding, Posing Compounding Climate Hazards

By Kiley Price

As Deadly Floods Hit America, a Meteorologist Looks Ahead

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns

By Martha Pskowski