An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.
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Western climate litigants keep fighting
After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.
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After Trump cuts, seeds sit in the warehouse
Western groups lose federal grants for urgent restoration and conservation projects.
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Western economies falter under the Trump administration
Tariffs, layoffs and federal funding clawbacks stress budgets.
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The aging Los Alamos lab at the center of America’s nuclear overhaul
Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons.
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La carrera armamentística nuclear pone a prueba el laboratorio de Los Álamos
El laboratorio donde Oppenheimer desarrolló la bomba atómica es el eje del esfuerzo de EE. UU. por modernizar sus armas nucleares. Pero el centro ha enfrentado incidentes de contaminación, interrupciones de obras e infraestructuras obsoletas.
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What makes a community activist optimistic
After 85 years, Luis Torres still has answers to our many challenges.
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New Mexico’s billion-dollar orphaned oilfield problem
After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.
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Resistance to data centers rises on the border
In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.
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The Rio Grande’s pecan problem
How Big Ag is threatening New Mexico’s water supply.
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In rural New Mexico, kids paint a sonic portrait of their ghost town
Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present.
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See what trail cams captured about Borderlands wildlife
Alongside stunning footage, scientists found that the border wall deters wildlife.
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When wildfire hits your doorstep
A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
First came the record-setting fire. Then came the record-setting floods.
‘I don’t trust the water:’ How post-fire flooding has destabilized a rural community’s drinking water.
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In Albuquerque, developers are turning old motels into affordable housing
Once-dilapidated buildings are finding new life as homes for immigrants and other working-class New Mexicans.
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Protests greet Western governors in Santa Fe
After a bipartisan outcry, Senate proposal to sell public lands is blocked for now.
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Can fracking wastewater be reused?
New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that.
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Indigenous filmmakers get support from Sundance
Santa Fe’s Sundance Native Lab has evolved to embrace the multihyphenate artists of today.
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Truck nuts, pinniped pups and recidivist meat smugglers
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Class of 2025 leads the way for Indigenous graduation regalia
High school graduates are the first to walk with the protected right to wear cultural attire after the state of New Mexico passed legislation this spring.