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Climate Change Deniers Cherry Picking Data

Peter Gleick: Misrepresenting Climate Science — Cherry-Picking Data for Political Purposes

February 10, 2011

In 2009, Harrison Schmitt, a former senator, astronaut, and self-described climate "denier" (and potentially the Energy Secretary to the new New Mexican governor), sent a paper to NASA riddled with long-debunked errors of science. Others have written about this paper, taking it apart error by error. But this week, some of those errors reappeared

Navajo Nation Council Approves Water Rights Settlement

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November 10, 2010

If signed by the U.S. Congress, the deal would give the Navajo and Hopi tribes rights to Colorado River water.

Water Scarcity Prompts Different Plans to Reckon With U.S. Energy Choke Point

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August 17, 2010

Southeast could learn from Southwest

Peter Gleick: Turf Wars

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February 21, 2010

Climate change is expected to bring less precipitation and more extreme droughts to certain parts of the world, causing electricity shortages in hydro-reliant countries.

Rio Grande Threatened by Radioactive Run-off

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November 3, 2009

Rio Grande Threatened by Radioactive Run-off

Radioactive waste is trickling toward New Mexico’s Rio Grande River from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, serving as a grim reminder of the site’s Cold War history, and potentially threatening northern New Mexico's drinking water.