New Mexico Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in New Mexico courtesy of Environmental Health News.
Climate scientist proposes steep energy tax.
Future generations face sea-level rises of 18 to 27 feet, extinction of 30 percent to 50 percent of animal species and other catastrophes if carbon-based fuels continue to be used at the same rate as today, climate scientist James Hansen told a group at the Santa Fe Institute on Thursday.
Officials wrestle over how to best cut power-plant pollution while others argue for cleaner energy.
The fight between state and federal regulators over how best to clean up an aging coal-fired power plant in northwest New Mexico is also a debate about the state’s energy future.
Research predicts vulnerable forests under climate change scenario.
Using tree ring records, scientists have concluded that the drought of 2000-12, in terms of its combination of tree-stressing dryness and heat, was the fifth worst in the last thousand years, and climate trends show the worst could be yet to come.
Coming drought may ruin Southwest region's forests.
The Southwest is headed for a megadrought in our lifetime, the likes of which haven’t been experienced in more than four centuries, according to a recently published study by a coalition of scientists.
Panel warns heat will continue to scorch world.
A panel of environmental experts gave U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., some pretty dire news: The world, the country and the Southwest are all going to keep heating up, drying up and burning up due to the effects of climate change, much of which is caused by man.
Study: Climate change threatens New Mexico ski season.
A recent study by a New York-based think tank predicts New Mexico ski areas will have to spend more on snow-making in coming years due to climate change if greenhouse-gas emissions remain the same.
Los Alamos researchers study plants' response to climate change.
Trees in forests all over the world, from the Arctic to semi-arid New Mexico, are dying at an alarming rate. Nate McDowell’s team hopes to devise a system that will help predict tree die-off and the potential climate impacts.
Reports inflate N.M. global-warming test.
New Mexico's stratosphere may soon be the test-bed for an experiment to test a controversial proposal to combat global warming. It's called solar geoengineering.
Environmental board repeals rule to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The state Environmental Improvement Board, saying a 15-month-old New Mexico rule to reduce carbon pollution was bad for business and already outdated.
Fire may be the best way to fight fire, experts say.
Fire ecologists say fire-restored landscapes may be the best way to help forests, grasslands and related ecosystems prepare for the long-term trend of warming temperatures and longer droughts due to climate change.