As a new year begins, New Mexico’s water challenges are clear, but solutions remain unsettled. Discussions are behind closed doors. Political will, Rio Grande […]
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Climate Impact
Understand how climate change is affecting New Mexico’s water resources, leading to reduced snowpack, earlier snowmelt, and increased evaporation.
This article documents an arduous pilgrimage across New Mexico undertaken to highlight the cumulative impacts of oil and gas development—carbon emissions, air pollution, contaminated […]
Climate warming science was identified early, confirmed repeatedly, and publicly communicated decades ago. Yet organized political opposition and fossil-fuel industry denial delayed action with […]
As the surface water of the Cochiti Dam block release moved downstream, increasing portions of the swollen river flow left the river channel. Driven […]
2025 was a difficult and revealing year for New Mexico’s water. From growing Rio Grande Compact risk to groundwater overuse, aridification, and legislative inaction, […]
A winter block release of 26,000 acre-feet of stored Rio Chama water was intended to reduce New Mexico’s Rio Grande Compact underdelivery. Hydrographs show […]