Sometimes new insect species are discovered in the wild, and sometimes they are discovered in the drawers of old museum collections. Then there are those that are discovered by accident, which is how Dr. J. E. McPherson, ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2014
0
0
The management experiment at Valles Caldera National Preserve is coming to an end as the National Park Service prepares to take over the 140-square-mile property in northern New Mexico.
Ecology
Dec 23, 2014
0
0
One of the "E.T." Atari game cartridges unearthed this year from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert has been added to the video game history collection at the Smithsonian.
Software
Dec 15, 2014
0
0
The climate 150 million years ago of a large swath of the western United States was more complex than previously known, according to new research from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2014
0
0
Wildlife advocates have sued the federal government after it declined to designate some areas in the West as critical habitat for the imperiled Canada lynx.
Ecology
Nov 17, 2014
0
0
Federal officials say managers at one of the nation's premiere federal laboratories in New Mexico improperly used taxpayer funds to influence members of Congress and other officials in an effort to extend the lab's $2.4 billion ...
Other
Nov 12, 2014
1
0
California's pioneering climate change law has a long reach, but that doesn't mean all its mandates will help stave off global warming.
Environment
Nov 4, 2014
0
0
This year's Southwest monsoon season will be remembered for unusually intense storms that brought months' worth of rain in just one day.
Environment
Oct 2, 2014
0
0
A newly discovered armoured dinosaur from New Mexico has close ties to the dinosaurs of Alberta, say University of Alberta paleontologists involved in the research.
Archaeology
Sep 24, 2014
0
0
Former Hurricane Odile may be a bad memory for Baja California, but the remnants have moved over New Mexico and Texas where they are expected to bring rainfall there. NASA's TRMM satellite measured Odile's heavy rainfall ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2014
1
0
