On Sunday afternoon around 4 p.m., the light suddenly changed in northern New Mexico. I was looking down, tying my shoe, when I noticed. The play of light and shadow…

On New Mexico in Focus last week, Russell Contreras sat down with Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, to talk about what’s missing from the Oppenheimer movie.…

The Rio Grande’s flows were glorious this spring. But river drying in the Middle Valley began a few days ago in the San Marcial reach and is expected to continue…

Earlier this month the Biden administration publicly announced its decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.  To an American public watching the Russia-Ukraine war play out on television or across…

Who among us can forget April 2022 in New Mexico? It was dry. It was hot. It was windy as hell.  Months before the normal start to fire season, there…