Bryce Dix

Some National Park Service advocates are worried that, once the ongoing quarrel in Congress is over, the agency’s staff might shrink, impacting park quality.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit atop a mountain and watch the horizon for the faintest hint of wildfire smoke?

Last month, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it had partnered with the Department of the Interior to cut $14 million worth of environmental grants, including $2.5 million for New Mexico.

A recent report estimates that New Mexico has the potential to produce substantial power from its geothermal resources. But what will it take to tap into this substantial energy source underneath our feet that could reduce emissions and curb climate change?

A new bill introduced in Congress, and co-sponsored by Republicans and Democrats, would significantly overhaul the environmental permitting process for federal projects.

Last month, the lesser prairie chicken lost its federal protections after a yearslong legal battle between conservationists and the oil and gas industry.KUNM sat down with the Permian Basin Petroleum Association’s Michael Lozano to talk about why producers oppose formal protections for other endangered species – such as the dune sagebrush lizard.

After a yearslong environmental review process and overwhelming public opposition, the National Nuclear Security Administration has given their green light to move forward with a controversial transmission power line project on the Caja del Rio plateau.

Thanks to growing financial risks from climate change, property insurance premiums are ballooning, and not just in areas inundated with wildfire and subsequent burn scar flooding. On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico we’ll explore the problem – and possible solutions – as lawmakers try to confront how climate change could reshape the state’s insurance market.

Amid a prolonged megadrought, the Bureau of Reclamation is predicting that Lake Powell may drop close to a “dead pool." But, water managers won’t let that happen. They’ll first tap into reservoirs further upstream – including in New Mexico.

It's been more than a month since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its own deadline to release a well-known endangered Mexican gray wolf and her family back into the wild after she was caught wandering well beyond the species’ recovery area twice in New Mexico.