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ALBUQUERQUE – About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems, decades after...
DATE: Oct. 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SALT LAKE CITY – In another sign that California condors are making a comeback in the wild three decades after nearing the brink of extinction, a condor chick left its nest and made its first...
DATE: Oct. 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
One year after the 416 Fire, Hermosa Creek is showing early signs of bouncing back. “The area is recovering pretty well,” said Gretchen Fitzgerald, a forester with the U.S. Forest Service. “There...
DATE: Oct. 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to dismiss lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a 2017 decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALBUQUERQUE – Life without chocolate? Never. Not even 1,000 years ago at Chaco Canyon. A world heritage site, the massive stone structures left by Chaco’s early inhabitants have fueled scientific...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Her gravesite is marked by a shallow depression in the grass and nothing else. It was just over a year ago that my wife and I went to Greenmount Cemetery looking for her headstone. Bob Talamante...
DATE: Sept. 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
DENVER – A judge has asked U.S. biologists to explain part of a determination that a trout native to Colorado and New Mexico doesn’t merit an endangered species listing. But U.S. District Court...
DATE: Sept. 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Durangoan Kristin Gerela tried physical therapy, massages and chiropractic adjustments to relieve her neck pain before receiving laser therapy treatment. “This was the fastest response and the best...
DATE: Sept. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
ALBUQUERQUE – It will be up to a federal appeals court to decide whether tens of thousands of acres in New Mexico should be reserved as critical habitat for the endangered jaguar. The 10th U.S....
DATE: Sept. 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
A rare American marten has been documented in the La Sal Mountains near Moab, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources reports. “One of our biologists has made an incredible finding,” the agency...
DATE: Sept. 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
WASHINGTON – North America’s skies are lonelier and quieter as nearly 3 billion fewer wild birds soar in the air than in 1970, a comprehensive study shows. The new study focuses on the drop in...
DATE: Sept. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
For cattle grazing in the high country, altitude sickness can be a life-or-death situation. The ailment is most commonly referred to as “brisket disease,” but it goes by many other names, such as...
DATE: Sept. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
