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Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World

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Week ending Friday, December 11, 2020

La Niña Persists

U.S. forecasters predict there is a 95% chance the current moderate La Niña episode will prevail until at least March, triggering a unique set of global weather shifts. They add there is a chance it will peak in the strong range during January. While El Niños...

Environmental briefs

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from the Center for Biological Diversity and its newsletter Endangered Earth

JUDGE HALTS PLAN TO FRACK 60,000 ACRES IN UTAH

Thanks to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and its allies, on Dec. 11 a judge overturned the Trump Administration’s plan to lease out more than 60,000 acres of public land for fracking in northern Utah’s Uintah Basin, including areas near Dinosaur National Monument.

“This is a strong rebuke of Trump’s disastrous fracking frenzy across our public lands, which is destroying the climate, wildlife and frontline communities,” the Center’s Taylor McKinnon said. “President-elect Biden’s ban on new federal fossil fuel leasing can’t...

Navajo Nation nurse dies from COVID

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On this, the next to the last day of the year, Navajo Nation nurse Raymond Joe, was taken to his final resting place after succumbing to COVID-19. KOB-TV's Nathan O'Neal reported that Joe, a 48-year-old combat veteran  was among the first health care workers to draw attention to the dangers of the novel coronavirus on the Navajo Nation.

Joe's common law wife, Eugenia Johnson, said Joe was one of the few people in the region who was fluent in Navajo and as a nurse, he used to go out into the Navajo Nation, parts of Shiprock, Kirtland, and Cove to see patients.

In November, both Joe and Johnson, who is also a nurse on the Navajo Nation, contracted the virus. While she recovered, Joe got...

Hope arrives

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COVID vaccines roll out across Gallup, Navajo Nation

When the coronavirus vaccines were distributed to Crownpoint Health Care Facility Dec. 14, it created “a lot of excitement” and “anxious feelings,” according to U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Kali Autrey, a pharmacist clinician.

But more than that, a health official at the hospital in McKinley County was compelled to have the vaccines “blessed.”

“It was beautiful,” Autrey said.

Within minutes, she volunteered to be the first to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

The doses at Crownpoint were among those sent to sites around the Navajo Nation after the initial allottment was delivered to the Gallup Indian Medical...

Yazzie-Martinez plaintiffs plead for computers, internet access for students

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The discussion expands to include education, legislation, systemic problems

SANTA FE—Plaintiffs in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez education lawsuit asked the First Judicial District Court Dec. 15 to order the State of New Mexico to provide computers and high-speed internet access to the thousands of “at-risk” students who lack these necessary tools for remote learning.

“Many children in New Mexico, especially those in rural districts and districts serving predominantly Native American students, don’t have computers or high-speed internet access and have been effectively denied access to public education since the pandemic started, worsening existing education inequities,”...

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