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Part 1: A Struggling Coal Town Looks to a Nuclear Future

The Wyoming Truth
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build state’s first nuclear power plant Oct. 1, 2022By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthKEMMERER, Wyo.—In late 2019, Teri Picerno heard that the Naughton coal power

Part 2: A Struggling Coal Town Looks to a Nuclear Future

The Wyoming Truth
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build state’s first nuclear power plant Oct. 2, 2022By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthOn Saturday, the Wyoming Truth published the part one of a story

Invisible and toxic in New Mexico

Source NM

In her 30 years working as a health care professional in the Navajo Nation, Adella Begaye witnessed the health impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous communities in the Southwest.

“We

To understand the orphan well problem in NM, someone’s going to have to count them

Source NM

The 50-square-mile stretch of public land known as Glade Run is described on the Bureau of Land Management’s website as a “great spot for the weekend warrior.”

Glade Run is

Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops

The Guardian
On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries. “The

Photo essay: Former foster youth navigate motherhood

Youth Today
Youth who age out of the foster care system face myriad challenges associated with family instability and poverty. They often lack basic life skills or the support network needed to

Native Americans’ farming practices may help feed a warming world

Washington Post

TUCSON — Indigenous peoples have known for millennia to plant under the shade of the mesquite and paloverde trees that mark the Sonoran Desert here, shielding their crops from the

Native Americans farming practices hold potential amid climate change

The Washington Post
TUCSON — Indigenous peoples have known for millennia to plant under the shade of the mesquite and paloverde trees that mark the Sonoran Desert here, shielding their crops from the

Santa Fe Fashion Designer Touts Style, Comfort to Boot

The Santa Fe New Mexican

Wendy Lane Henry vividly remembers the first pair of cowboy boots she ever bought.

She was a teenager walking through a Neiman Marcus department store in Miami when she spotted

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