UNM-Gallup announced current enrollment numbers for Fall 2021 stand at 1,747 students and 14,165 student credit hours as of Aug. 25.

At the same time last year enrollment stood at 1,937 students at 15,474 student credit hours.

Senior Public Relations Specialist Lee Lamb said the school expects the numbers to increase slightly over the next couple of weeks and could wind up about even or slightly ahead of last year’s figures.

 

On an afternoon in June, neighbors walked the grass loop of Albuquerque’s 4-H park as kids chased underneath a metal sculpture and stepped on a marker that hints of the unmarked grave site below for students at the old Albuquerque Indian School who died more than 100 years ago.

Draped on a solitary tree nearby were orange tapestries, part of a community-built memorial dedicated to the gravesite near the former site of the Albuquerque Indian School. It went up after someone noticed a plaque missing that commemorated the cemetery for Zuni, Navajo and Apache students buried there between 1882 and 1933.

How the plaque went missing is a mystery, and its absence might have escaped...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World


Fish Bake

With record summer heat and drought threatening wild salmon in California, the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada this summer, experts say many commonly eaten fish could face extinction as global heating makes waters too hot for them to survive. A report in the journal “Nature Climate Change,” warns many species will struggle to keep pace with the deepening climate emergency. “Warming waters are a double whammy for fish, as they not only cause them to evolve to a smaller size, but also reduce their ability to move to more suitable environments, co-author Chris Venditti of Britain’s University of Reading...

Executive order calls for state to conserve at least 30 percent of land by 2030

Complementing a nationwide effort to protect U. S. land and water, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an order Aug. 25 to support New Mexico’s “30 x 30” framework, which would conserve at least 30 percent of all lands in the state by 2030.

The executive order directs the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, New Mexico Environment Department, Office of the State Engineer, Department of Agriculture, Indian Affairs Department and the director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and Outdoor Recreation Division to use their existing authorities to support and implement programs...