New Mexico Mercury

Water’s Peace - Petra

Margaret Randall explores the ancient rock city of Petra and gleans lessons for modern New Mexico.

Magic and Realism in a Homemade Chihuahua Museum

A chance encounter opens a portal into an eclectic world of prehistory, Mexican rural history, and a vision of homegrown environmental sustainability.

Insight New Mexico - Paul Robinson

V.B. Price speaks with the Paul Robinson, Research Director at the Southwest Research and Information Center, about the legacy of uranium mining in New Mexico, how the uranium market works and who suffers if there's another boom.

What Are Our Troops and Their Families Drinking at Kirtland Air Force Base and the V.A. Hospital?

KAFB sits idle amidst growing evidence and concern about water contamination.

Insight New Mexico - Yvette Tovar

V.B. Price speaks with Yvette Tovar, Executive Director of the New Mexico Water Collaborative, about the ins and outs of water conservation in an era of persistent drought.

Water fights flare in border region

Drought, water pumping, new pecan farms and dated international water treaties are all contributing to rising water tensions in the border region.

Courage in Mora County

If you knew that fallible human beings were going to drill for oil or gas through your precious groundwater would you feel confident about drinking and washing with that water? Not if you valued your health.

Of course you can’t see what actually happens when corporate persons out for profit pollute your ground water.  But it doesn’t take much imagination to suppose pollution will occur many times, if not most times, when drilling rigs and all their gear and goop go at it...

Drinking Games in the Colorado Basin

Understanding the stressors and possible solutions for the Southwest's troubled major water artery.

What’s happened to Albuquerque? Part 4: A city of edges

Is it time for a complete revamping of the goals Albuquerque has set for itself as a city?  Are we ready for a genuine city-wide discussion of what the current economic and environmental conditions mean for our future?

The great goals setting exercises of the l970s and l980s took place in an atmosphere of intense public interest and involvement in city issues.  By comparison, 21st century Albuquerque seems asleep at the wheel...

Solar Decathlon ingredients: College students + construction + competition

The Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition in ten contests for a fully solar powered house sponsored by the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. University of New Mexico students have had the opportunity to compete alongside many of the best and brightest students in the nation to design, construct and operate  a solar house under competition standards. A highly competitive evaluation will be held October 2013 in Irvine, CA...