New Mexico Mercury

Friday Voyage: The Gates of Lodore

A perfect introduction to river rafting through the beautiful canyons of northern Utah.

On the wild side

Some years ago my family, and a friend and I went for a long day hike to the high lakes around Truchas, Las Trampas and Santa Barbara in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north of Santa Fe. At a gorgeous but icy mountain tarn more than 11,000 feet high, my quite large friend plunged into the clear turquoise water. His splash boomed through the thin air and created a wave that bounced off the far shore. He emerged shivering but with an ecstatic smile of pure triumph.

That incident occurred to me as I was reading a new book about the mountains of northern New Mexico, A Walk Around the Horizon by Tom Harmer (UNM Press, 208 pages, $24.95 in paperback)...

Water, Water Everywhere, But Too Much Salt To Drink

The possibilities and pitfalls of water desalination are being explored at a research center in Alamogordo.

Provincial Matters, 11-11-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Protecting the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks

There is an important time in any young person’s life when they feel anything is possible. They are open to new things and new ideas and they truly come into their own as individuals.

As a leader for Groundwork Doña Ana County (GWDA), a non-profit youth conservation and education group based in Las Cruces, I have had the pleasure of getting to know some remarkable young people as they have expanded their own horizons by exploring and working to preserve the world around them.  Our group has been surveying and learning about the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks (OMDP) region near Las Cruces...

Dear Climate Scientists, Please Note the Global Terror at Fukushima Four

Four climate scientists have made a public statement claiming nuclear power is an answer to global warming.

Before they proceed, they should visit Fukushima, where the Tokyo Electric Power Company has moved definitively toward bringing down the some 1300 hot fuel rods from a pool at Unit Four.

Which makes this a time of global terror...

Provincial Matters, 11-4-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Insight New Mexico - Eleanor Bravo

V.B. Price talks with Eleanor Bravo about the societal and environmental impact of fracking in New Mexico. Eleanor is the Southwest Organizer for Food and Water Watch, an international non-profit working with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future.

What’s Happened to Albuquerque? Part 10: Gary Goodman and the Big Idea

Working to overcome a familiar sense of dejection after the city elections, this month, I was browsing the internet and came across the disappointing September 30th KNME mayoral debate and then, quite by accident, found myself watching a TEDxABQ on YouTube from October 14, 2012 with New Mexico real estate developer Gary Goodman. What a glaring contrast...

KOAT picks up our Glyphosate story (video)

Although no credit was given to New Mexico Mercury, it's nice to know that some local news outlets are paying attention to our stories. After our piece on the use of Glyphosate by city, county and state governments in New Mexico, Susan Clair, who's interviewed in the article, was contacted by KOAT for their brief piece. Our original story was written by our intern Svetlana Ozden, who studies at UNM and was a former editor at the Daily Lobo...