2021 Year in Review

Massive Melt

A midsummer heat wave across parts of the North Atlantic caused enough of Greenland’s ice cap to melt in a single day to submerge the entire state of Florida beneath 5 cm of water.

 

Hottest Month

July was the world’s hottest month globally on record, which NOAA said was part of a “disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.” Death Valley, California, had the planet’s hottest temperature on record — 54 degrees Celsius on July 9.

 

Earthquakes

Haiti suffered another devastating temblor on Aug. 14 when an intense quake killed 2,248 people and injured nearly 13,000 others. •  An aftershock of Japan’s...

The New Mexico Advisory Team has endorsed and begun implementing the updated vaccination booster recommendations issued by the Centers onr Disease Control Jan. 5.

“We’re gratified to see that the federal government has expanded eligibility for boosters,"N. M. Department of Health Deputy Secretary Dr. Laura Parajon said. "With Omicron on the rise, as more parents and children get vaccinated and boosted, they protect themselves and their communities against COVID-19.”

Despite breakthrough cases, getting up to date on vaccines - including a primary series and a booster - remains the most powerful tool to protect against severe illness, hospitalization, and death. The vast majority...

These stories are not in a particular order, but were chosen based on their impact to the country, the globe, the state and the Navajo Nation

 

DEB HAALAND NOMINATED AS INTERIOR SECRETARY

Deb Haaland of the New Mexico Laguna Pueblo was confirmed as the first Native American Cabinet secretary in the history of the U. S. and took office March 16.

She is also one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress.

As the Secretary of the Interior Department, she is in the unique position of being an Indigenous leader with a position in the U. S. Government that allows her to take measures to countermand many of the Department’s damaging moves against sacred...