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San Luis Valley residents question nuclear waste transport

Citizens of the San Luis Valley want full disclosure of the potential impacts associated with the transport and temporary storage of radioactive waste. Lawsuit calls on feds to conduct a full-scale...

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Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico grows to 60,000 acres

Smoke from the Las Conchas Fire fills the sky above Española, New Mexico. PHOTO BY BOB BERWYN. Los Alamos evacuated; fire burns in remote area of nuclear lab By Summit Voice ESPANOLA — Thick smoke...

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Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico destroys 12 buildings

No fire burning on Los Alamos National Laboratory lands; air sampling detects no radiation from nuclear facility The Las Conchas Fire burning in mixed forest near Los Alamos, New Mexico. PHOTO BY GLENN...

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Firefighters in New Mexico battle to keep 80,000-acre Las Conchas blaze away...

U.S. Forest Service closes large parts of Carson National Forest; preventive burns conducted to prevent westward spread of fire A map showing the extent of the Las Conchas Fire as of June 29, with the...

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Las Conchas Fire grows to more than 100,000 acres

Wildfire near Los Alamos now the largest on record in New Mexico A June 29 NASA satellite image shows smoke from the Las Conchas Fire, which has now burned over more than 100,000 acres, making it the...

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Las Conchas Fire started by downed power line

A burned forest landscape along Road 289 within the footprint of the Las Conchas Fire. PHOTO BY BURT STALTER VIA FLICKR. Wildfire near Los Alamos 19 percent contained after destroying 63 homes By...

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Climate trends to trigger massive change in SW forests

A thermal emission sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this view of the Waldo Canyon, Colorado burn scar. 2012,  Vegetation-covered land is red in the false-color image, which includes both...

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A vicious cycle: New study says wildfire soot may be a bigger factor in...

The Las Conchas Fire, burning July 6, 2011 in the Jemez Mountains, sends up a pyrocumulus cloud. Photo via Wikipedia and the Creative Commons. Tiny ‘tar balls’ are very good at absorbing the sun’s...

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Environment: Study shows space-based sensors can accurately measure...

The Four Corners Power Plant in a 1972 photo via Wikipedia. Satellite data verified by in-stack measurements By Summit Voice FRISCO — Keeping tabs colorless, odorless carbon dioxide emissions is not...

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Global warming to speed up forest die-offs

Taller trees, like this California redwood, are most susceptible to global warming impacts, a new study says. @bberwyn photo. ‘The warming climate is creating a threat to global forests unlike any in...

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