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THURS: This Santa Fe arts college could lose almost all its federal funding., + More
KUNM - New Mexico
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June 5, 2025
This Santa Fe arts college could lose almost all its federal funding. Here’s why. – Noah Alcala Bach, Albuquerque Journal The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), one of the few post-secondary institutions in New Mexico’s capital city, could...
Area on Mars named after former UNM scientist
KOB 4 - New Mexico
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June 10, 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An area on Mars is now named after a former scientist at the University of New Mexico. The “Horton Newsom Point” is at the center of a high-resolution orbital image captured by a Mars reconnaissance camera. Photo courtesy of...
Free Public Lecture On ‘Rethinking Mass Extinctions’ With Dinosaur Scientist Dr. Spencer Lucas To Kick Off ScienceFest June 19
Los Alamos Reporter - New Mexico
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June 10, 2025
NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM NEWS RELEASE Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, will present a public lecture June 19 at 7 p.m. at Fuller Lodge on “Rethinking Mass Extinctions”, offering a...
I’m the new outdoors editor for the BDN
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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June 16, 2025
The first thing I ever shot was a hen wood duck. I was an 18-year-old college student in Unity, and I had just started hunting with friends. It was my first introduction to a world I didn’t realize existed, one that I was perturbed to have missed...
Inside the Science of Dousing Wildfires
Mountain Journal - Montana
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by Robert Chaney Imagine a jet airplane zooming above a wildfire, releasing a cloud of zeros and ones. That’s what Mark Owkes sees when he studies what happens to fire retardant when it’s dropped out of a Very Large Air Tanker. In his lab at...
New Mexico high school champs advance to National History Day national contest
KOB 4 - New Mexico
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June 2, 2025
A group of four sophomores from the Albuquerque School of Excellence did a project focused on a secret biological and chemical warfare research unit that operated in Japan during World War II. The students prepared a documentary for the national...
Nuclear watchdogs, scientists question need for SC plutonium plant amid environmental study
SC Daily Gazette - South Carolina
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June 10, 2025
South Carolina’s federal nuclear site is part of a plan to replace the plutonium cores of bombs in the country’s nuclear arsenal. But now the federal government is taking a closer look at the environmental impacts of such a venture — or whether...
Student loan assistance available for some New Mexico teachers
KOAT 7 - New Mexico
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June 4, 2025
SEEN ON SEVEN SECTION OF OUR WEBSITE. APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN. NEW MEXICO TEACHERS CAN NOW APPLY FOR UP TO $6,000 A YEAR IN STUDENT LOAN ASSISTANCE. IT’S ALL PART OF THE STATE’S TEACHER LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM. TO BE ELIGIBLE, YOU MUST BE A NEW...
Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico; its schools are contending with pollution’s effects
The Mining Journal - Michigan
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COUNSELOR, N.M. — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, driving past natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have been in school, but a bout of nausea and a dull...
Business Spotlight: Highlands prepares students for careers in media and technology
Las Vegas Optic - New Mexico
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New Mexico Highlands University’s School of Business, Media and Technology offers students a foundation in professional skills and creative thinking designed to prepare them for careers in a rapidly evolving workforce. The school houses two...
New Mexico Economic Development Dept. Job Support Program Awards Training Funds To Seven Companies
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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June 1, 2025
AAA Cooper Transportation in Albuquerque was awarded up to $165,922 by EDD’s JTIP program for 10 trainees. AAA Cooper Transportation mainly operates in the southeastern and midwestern U.S., but also serves Puerto Rico and has expanded into...
Free Public Lecture With Dinosaur Scientist Dr. Spencer Lucas To Kick Off 2025 ScienceFest Thursday June 19
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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June 10, 2025
NMC News: Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, will present a public lecture titled “Rethinking Mass Extinctions”, offering a radically different perspective on one of Earth’s most...
University Of New Mexico Makes "Life Saving" Discovery Underneath Yellowstone National Park's Supervolcano
The Travel
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June 3, 2025
Although exciting to some, eruptions can have detrimental impacts. Mount Etna recently caused concerns with ash falling from the sky in Piano Vetore. Thankfully, the situation is being monitored, and there was nothing out of the ordinary,...
How a wildlife researcher is estimating Albuquerque's badger population
KRQE - New Mexico
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June 9, 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A wildlife researcher is taking a look at how many American badgers are taking up shop in a 12-mile stretch of the Rio Grande Bosque. To make that happen, she’s asking the people of Albuquerque to send any photos they...
Scientists Take on Severe Storms to Study Hail, Costliest Weather Danger
Insurance Journal
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June 6, 2025
As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: Hail. Hail rarely kills, but it hammers...
Gila River tribes intend to float solar panels on a reservoir. Could the technology help the Colorado River?
Renewable Energy World
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June 9, 2025
By Jake Bolster | Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. GILA RIVER INDIAN...
New Mexico teachers can apply for up to $6,000 in student loan help
Tri City Record - New Mexico
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May 30, 2025
Starting June 1, New Mexico teachers can apply for up to $6,000 a year in student loan assistance through the state’s Teacher Loan Repayment Program. (Adobe Stock photo) × Record number of teachers benefit from loan repayment program Starting June...
New Mexico's near-universal child care a 'life-saver' for many families
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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May 30, 2025
Click play to listen to this article. Predominantly free statewide child care is helping lift many New Mexico families out of poverty. Three years ago, the state became the first in the nation to offer the program to a majority of families....
New Mexico’s natural gas boom fuels schools while threatening student health
Environmental Health News
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May 30, 2025
Hundreds of New Mexico students living near oil and gas fields are missing school and struggling academically due to chronic exposure to fossil fuel emissions, even as the industry funds much of the state’s education system. Ed Williams reports...
What scientists have learned from 20 years of microplastics research
Resilience
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June 9, 2025
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic litter into small, even...