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Climate Change Impacts Hit Home for NMPBS

Mora fire.

8.26.2022 – This summer, the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire destroyed hundreds of homes in northern New Mexico. The fire also wreaked havoc on infrastructure like water systems, acequias, power lines, cell and internet towers—and even the NMPBS translator in Mora. NMPBS Chief Engineer Jason Quinn talks about the destruction of infrastructure as warming forests are…

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U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury on Water & Climate

A portrait of U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury in front of a New Mexico landscape background.

8.12.2022 – In late July, three water bills introduced by U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM, passed the U.S. House of Representatives to be included as part of the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act. Next, the U.S. Senate will take up the bill later this summer. Stansbury talks with Our Land Executive Producer Laura Paskus…

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