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New Mexico high school champs advance to National History Day national contest
KOB 4 - New Mexico
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June 2, 2025
A group of four sophomores from the Albuquerque School of Excellence did a project focused on a secret biological and chemical warfare research unit that operated in Japan during World War II. The students prepared a documentary for the national...
UNM researchers make new discovery about Yellowstone National Park supervolcano
Yahoo News
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s one of the world’s largest supervolcanoes, and recent work out of the University of New Mexico led to a breakthrough discovery that could help geoscientists better predict an eruption and save lives. “So it’s very...
New Mexico Economic Development Dept. Job Support Program Awards Training Funds To Seven Companies
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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June 1, 2025
AAA Cooper Transportation in Albuquerque was awarded up to $165,922 by EDD’s JTIP program for 10 trainees. AAA Cooper Transportation mainly operates in the southeastern and midwestern U.S., but also serves Puerto Rico and has expanded into...
Isotopes bring the world of science to the ballpark
KOB 4 - New Mexico
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June 1, 2025
Science Night gave baseball fans the opportunity to interact with robots, dinosaurs and more while attending a game. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At Isotopes Park Saturday night, people came in to see baseball, but they also walked away with a bit of a...
Gila River Tribes Intend to Float Solar Panels on a Reservoir. Could the Technology Help the Colorado River?
Inside Climate News
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June 1, 2025
GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz.—About 33 miles south of Phoenix, Interstate 10 bisects a line of solar panels traversing the desert like an iridescent snake. The solar farm’s shape follows the path of a canal, with panels serving as awnings...
Governor expands Dolly Parton Imagination Library across New Mexico
Enchantment State News - New Mexico
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May 30, 2025
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (left) and David Schweikert, Chair of the Joint Economic Committee and U.S. Representative from Arizona (right) | Facebook/WikipediaNew Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (left) and David Schweikert,...
New Mexico teachers can apply for up to $6,000 in student loan help
Tri City Record - New Mexico
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May 30, 2025
Starting June 1, New Mexico teachers can apply for up to $6,000 a year in student loan assistance through the state’s Teacher Loan Repayment Program. (Adobe Stock photo) × Record number of teachers benefit from loan repayment program Starting June...
New Mexico's near-universal child care a 'life-saver' for many families
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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May 30, 2025
Click play to listen to this article. Predominantly free statewide child care is helping lift many New Mexico families out of poverty. Three years ago, the state became the first in the nation to offer the program to a majority of families....
New Mexico’s natural gas boom fuels schools while threatening student health
Environmental Health News
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May 30, 2025
Hundreds of New Mexico students living near oil and gas fields are missing school and struggling academically due to chronic exposure to fossil fuel emissions, even as the industry funds much of the state’s education system. Ed Williams reports...
New Mexico Okays $50 Million For Wildlife Crossings To Improve Safety
Forbes
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A cougar (also known as a mountain lion) in New Mexico.getty New Mexico lawmakers have approved $50 million to pay for wildlife crossings to improve roadway safety and also passed legislation to create a strategic reserve fund for freshwater...
There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened
New Scientist
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The end-Permian mass extinction was the deadliest event in Earth’s history. Also called the Great Dying, it is thought to have nearly wiped out all life on Earth 252 million years ago. Yet, earlier this year, we learned of an ancient ecosystem at...
Polly's Run making strides funding cancer research
KOAT 7 - New Mexico
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May 31, 2025
Polly's Run making strides funding cancer research Siblings started event after pancreatic cancer took their mother's life Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Updated: 5:14 PM MDT May 31, 2025 In 2009, Josh Rogers and his brothers wanted to do...
Advocates: Population swells in New Mexico ICE detention center in Torrance County
Santa Fe New Mexican
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While advocates wait to see if a soon-to-be closed state prison in Lea County will become a new immigration detention center, immigrants from across the Eastern seaboard are already being shipped to a lockup in Estancia. The population of the...
Oil, Gas Have Boomed in New Mexico
Design and Development Today - Wisconsin
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May 29, 2025
COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should...
Prosecutors warn New Mexico lawmakers about ‘new backlog’ in sexual assault evidence kits
Tri City Record - New Mexico
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May 29, 2025
Lindee Miller, a nurse at Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre, South Dakota, turns on the camera attached to a colposcope used in sexual assault examinations. Prosecutors told lawmakers New Mexico is well on its way to address a backlog of...
Almadex sees REE potential in New Mexico pegmatites
Resource World Magazine
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May 29, 2025
Almadex Minerals Ltd. [DEX-TSXV] said it has staked a pegmatite dyke complex with rare earth element potential in New Mexico. The company said it has acquired by staking the area covering most of the historic Petaca district located in northern...
THURS: Funding for English learners in public schools at risk, New Mexico budget analyst warns, + More
KUNM - New Mexico
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May 29, 2025
Funding for English learners in public schools at risk, New Mexico budget analyst warns – Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico A public school budget expert told New Mexico lawmakers on Thursday that the federal government is likely to take away money...
Is the oil and gas boom harming New Mexico’s students?
Searchlight New Mexico
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May 29, 2025
COUNSELOR, N.M. – On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have...
Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico. Its schools are contending with pollution’s...
Journal News - Ohio
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"They just keep getting sick," Amari's father, Billton, said. "I have to take them out of class because of the headaches. Especially the younger one, he's been throwing up and won't eat." The symptoms are putting the kids at risk of falling...
Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico. Its schools are contending with pollution’s effects
San Mateo Daily Journal
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May 29, 2025
COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should...