In Oregon, a cluster of lakes is drying up — with dire impacts for the millions of migrating birds that survive off them.
Hillary Rosner
Posted inDecember 21, 2015: Secrets of the Deep
New clues to the past in Nevada’s desert fossils
Scientific inquiry is a process of constant revision. And revision is where the most intriguing discoveries happen.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2012: Can evolution help snowshoe hares adapt to climate change?
Can snowshoe hares outrace climate change?
Winner of National Association of Science Writers’ 2013 Science in Society Award!
Posted inSeptember 19, 2011: Redemption
Tales of sagebrush and murder: A review of Assumption
AssumptionPercival Everett272 pages, softcover: $15.Graywolf Press, October. There aren’t nearly enough books set in New Mexico. With its cinematic lighting and uniquely off-kilter characters, the state should grow great novels as plentifully as chiles. Strangely, though, it hasn’t. California author Percival Everett sets out to change that with Assumption, a trilogy of mysteries starring Ogden […]
Posted inJune 7, 2010: One Tough Sucker
Net losses
Four endangered fish species currently live in the mainstem of the Colorado River. Several other endangered native fishes — including the woundfin, desert pupfish and Gila topminnow — used to live there but now survive only in the river’s tributaries or in man-made habitats. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with […]
Posted inJune 7, 2010: One Tough Sucker
One Tough Sucker
The razorback sucker evolved in a wild Colorado River. Now, humans are its biggest problem — and its only hope.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2009: Home
A life unwound
Blame By Michelle Huneven 304 pages, hardcover: $25.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Patsy MacLemoore is a hard-partying 28-year-old who managed to earn a Ph.D. from Berkeley but drank herself out of the running for the most prestigious jobs, landing at a middling college in Pasadena, Calif. It’s the spring of 1981 in Michelle Huneven’s latest […]
Posted inAugust 17, 2009: From Corn to Cabernet
A slow-moving disaster
Communities struggle to adapt to a beetle-ravaged landscape.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2004: Mending the Nets
Saving a sacred lake: Zuni activist Pablo Padilla
Pablo Padilla is lying low right now, but don’t expect him to remain quiet for long. The 29-year-old law student at the University of New Mexico and member of the Zuni Tribe was an instrumental player in his tribe’s recent victory against an Arizona energy company (HCN, 8/18/03: Follow-up). He’s now trying to be just […]