LA Garden Club Announces 2020 Scholarship Winner
LAHS senior Kathryn Laintz is the Los Alamos Garden Club 2020 scholarship recipient. Courtesy/LAGC
LAGC News:
The Los Alamos Garden Club (LAGC) announces today that Kathryn Laintz is the recipient of its 2020 scholarship.
Laintz is a Los Alamos High School graduating senior and is planning to focus on environmental science in her university studies. Future possible career plans include being a hydrologist, a freshwater ecologist, an agricultural scientist or a botanist.
Her high school experience has included track and field, cross country and tennis in addition to the Eco Club and various Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 48; Tonight’s Low Around 30
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 48 with mostly sunny skies and tonight’s low around 30. Courtesy/NWS
Daily Postcard: Clouds Over Mountains
Daily Postcard: Scene of clouds coming in over the mountains recently above Los Alamos. Photo by Kathy Willcutt Read More
NMDOT, NM-MVD: Pollinator Protection License Plate
Pollinator Protection license plates are now available for purchase. Courtesy/NMDOT
NMDOT News:
SANTA FE – New Mexico’s first Pollinator Protection license plate, featuring student artwork is now available for purchase. Sales will fund pollinator-friendly planting projects on state roads.
The New Mexico Department of Transportation has a robust Environmental Department. This pollinator project will increase habitat by seeding roadsides with native plants and creating educational gardens as well as reducing mowing and spraying of herbicides.
“When we build roads, we disturb the Read More
Four Deer Spotted Sheltering In Place
This quartet of deer appear to be sheltering in place recently along with the rest of Los Alamos. Photo by Kathryn Willcutt Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 49; Tonight’s Low Around 27
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 49 with a 30 percent chance of rain and snow showers with little or no snow accumulation expected. Tonight’s low around 27. Courtesy/NWS Read More
Daily Postcard: Sunset Through The Trees
Diamond Drive Utility Work Has Begun
The utility work on Diamond Drive near North Road has begun. Water crews with the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) are dropping the east northbound lane on Diamond Drive just past the Sandia intersection to repair a water transmission line. Work is scheduled to be completed by 7 p.m. today. No interruption of water services is anticipated. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
AGU: Darkness, Not Cold, Likely Cause Of Mass Extinction
Roughly 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula. New research shows darkness, not cold, likely drove a mass extinction after the impact. Courtesy/NASA
AGU News:
New research finds soot from global fires ignited by an asteroid impact could have blocked sunlight long enough to drive the mass extinction that killed most life on Earth, including the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.
The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event wiped out about 75 percent of all species on Earth. An asteroid impact at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula caused a period of prolonged cold Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 63; Tonight’s Low Around 36
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 63 with partly sunny skies and wind gusts as high as 40 mph. Tonight’s low around 36. Courtesy/NWS
Daily Postcard: Robins Exercising Social Distancing
Daily Postcard: A pair of migrating robins are spotted Saturday exercising social distancing in a Rocky Mountain Juniper in the Western Area. Photo by Diane Roussel-Dupre
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NWS: Today’s High Near 60; Tonight’s Low Around 41
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 60 with mostly sunny skies and tonight’s low around 41. Courtesy/NWS
Daily Postcard: Otowi Peak On Buckman Mesa
Daily Postcard: The scene during a hike Tuesday down the Blue Dot Trail then north on the River Trail giving way to this view of Otowi Peak on Buckman Mesa. Photo by Oscar Sander Read More
NMDOT And Contractor Agree To Suspend Taos Road Project
NMDOT News:
TAOS — The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) and El Terrero Construction, LLC, reached an agreement to suspend reconstruction work on U.S. 68/N.M. 64 for a two-week duration amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Suspension began Monday and will expire April 3. Work will begin again Monday, April 6.
This suspension is granted due to specification 107.20 that includes documented national unavailability of construction material and epidemic quarantine restriction. This is not intended for the contractor to restructure phasing.
The $23.9 million project will improve the Read More
Ashley Pond Sparkles In The Sunlight
Ashley Pond sparkles Friday in the afternoon sunlight. Photo by Colin Hoch/ladailypost.com Read More
Snyder: Memorial Rose Garden’s History In Los Alamos
A small visitor enjoys the Los Alamos Memorial Rose Garden. Photo by Sharon Snyder
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
For the first day of spring 2020, it seems appropriate to tell the story of a flower garden. Not just any flower garden, but one that has been special to Los Alamos for many years.
Since the days of the Los Alamos Ranch School there have been gardens near Fuller Lodge, adding color to a scene that is special to all of us and enjoyed by visitors from around the world.
As early as 1930, Helen Sulier, the Ranch School’s nurse, created a small flower garden near the Lodge and tended Read More
Denman Glacier Retreats Nearly 3 Miles In 22 Years
Researchers are concerned that the unique topography beneath East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier could make it even more susceptible to climate-driven collapse. Courtesy/NASA
AGU News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years, and researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are concerned that the shape of the ground surface beneath the ice sheet could make it even more susceptible to climate-driven collapse.
If fully thawed, the ice in Denman would cause sea levels worldwide Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 59; Tonight’s Low Around 36
Daily Postcard: Cedar Waxwings Spotted In Apricot Tree
Daily Postcard: A flock of a dozen Cedar Waxwings spotted Monday in an apricot tree at a residence in Los Alamos. The tuft on their head and yellow belly are key features. Photo by Robert Reedy Read More
New Mexico Delegation Urges Nuclear Regulatory Commission To Extend Holtec Public Comment Period
New Mexico Delegation News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small have sent a letter to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Kristine L. Svinicki, to urge the NRC to delay any public meetings and extend the 60-day public comment period regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Holtec’s proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility in southeast New Mexico.
The recent guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is that public gatherings should Read More
