Evolution of O'Keeffe's Black Place Fracking, natural gas extraction triggers photographer's work COURTESY OF GEORGIA O ' KEEFFE O'KEEFFE MUSEUM " Black Place," 2017, by Michael Namingha BY KATHALEEN ROBERTS ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR Michael Namingha heard about the Black Place during a slide lecture at New York's Parsons School of Design. Georgia O'Keeffe referred to [...]
By Laura Paskus Laura Paskus Abiquiu Lake on the Chama River, a tributary of the Rio Grande. Despite the rains that doused parts of New Mexico on Monday, the state officially entered into drought conditions on the Rio Grande when water levels in two key reservoirs dipped below a critical legal threshold. On Sunday, New Mexico [...]
By Dahr Jamail Mt. Rainier. (Photo: George Artwood; Edited: LW / TO) This Truthout original was only possible because of our readers' ongoing support. Can you make a monthly donation to ensure we can publish more like it? Click here to give. "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a [...]
Given drought and dropping reservoirs, water issues critical for next governor By Laura Paskus New Mexico’s next governor should be ready to confront the state’s critical water issues on his or her first day in office.That’s according to Mike Connor, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior during the Obama administration, who spoke at [...]
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OPINION BY ISAAC BROWN A year ago this week, we experienced one of the only true victories for taxpayers and clean air of the Trump administration. In its rush to repeal regulations from the Obama administration, Congress sought to utilize the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s Methane and Waste Prevention Rule, [...]
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Shifts in coastal weather systems could make the West’s species less resilient. Maya L. Kapoor Every few winters, a high-pressure climate system called the North Pacific High flares up on California’s coast. For several months, southerly winds blow harder than usual down the continent’s West Coast, pushing coastal waters out to sea. The sea level [...]
By Laura Paskus Laura Paskus I smell the mounds of dead fish before seeing them. By now, the fish are desiccated. Most lie in low spots along the riverbanks where they crammed together, taking refuge as the last of the puddles and rivulets dried. The temperature is in the high 80s as we trudge up the [...]