Sun News
There are 523 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation that have been identified for cleanup through the joint federal and Navajo Nation multi-agency five-year plans which started in 2008. This does not include the totality of legacy contamination, such as places where contaminated materials were moved offsite either...Sun News
Public Meeting on Northeast Churchrock Mine Cleanup
There are 523 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation that have been identified for cleanup through the joint federal and Navajo Nation multi-agency five-year plans which started in 2008. This does not include the totality of legacy contamination, such as places where contaminated materials were moved offsite either...Food banks get money from New Mexico
$5 million spread through five areasSANTA FE— The New Mexico Human Services Department can expect to receive $5 million from House Bill 1, appropriated during the second special session of the New Mexico Legislature last month to support and supplement emergency feeding operations at food banks across the state. The funds are being distributed to the five major food banks that support all 33 counties and tribal communities through an existing hunger relief network. The food banks are:
The Community Pantry in Gallup
ECHO Inc. in Farmington
Roadrunner Food Bank in Albuquerque
The Food Depot in Santa Fe
Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico in Clovis
The Human Services...
State begins wastewater surveillance at CYFD, correctional facilities
Monitoring sewage may offer early detection, help with testing
Staff Reports
New Mexico began its initial phase of the New Mexico Wastewater Surveillance System, a COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program at congregate settings, in the southwest region of New Mexico the week of Dec.7.
This approach led by the New Mexico Environment Department and done in cooperation with other state agencies and local governments, allows for early detection of COVID-19 in congregate facilities and helps prioritize the use of individual-based testing resources (e.g. nasal swab testing).
Included in the initial effort are several federal, state and local correctional and Children...
Staff Reports
New Mexico began its initial phase of the New Mexico Wastewater Surveillance System, a COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program at congregate settings, in the southwest region of New Mexico the week of Dec.7.
This approach led by the New Mexico Environment Department and done in cooperation with other state agencies and local governments, allows for early detection of COVID-19 in congregate facilities and helps prioritize the use of individual-based testing resources (e.g. nasal swab testing).
Included in the initial effort are several federal, state and local correctional and Children...
Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World
Week ending Friday, December 4, 2020Record Heat
The U.N. weather agency predicts that 2020 will come in as almost the hottest year on record, just behind the current record-holder, 2016. Global weather data now put this year as the second-warmest ever, with its heat waves, devastating tropical cyclones and firestorms. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told an audience at New York’s Columbia University that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are to blame, and that world leaders have yet to adequately confront the climate crisis. “To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken,” said Guterres. “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is...
It can be done
Dine model/photographer creates positive life out of adversityWhen Shundeen Modell was a young Diné girl living in Arizona, she faced a lot of obstacles. In her home, she dealt with alcoholic parents, domestic violence, and abuse. At school she was bullied by children who made fun of her for being too thin.
“I remember kids would tease me because I was so skinny,” she said. “They would trip me and push me into the lockers and now it’s funny because when they see me now (laughing), they [guys] try to hit on me on Facebook.”
“I’ve forgiven them, but I just want to move on. But [I am] watching my boundaries.”
Raised in Teesto, Ariz., then relocated to Sanders...
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