Environment

Bear Attack Victim Partners With Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard To Change State Wildlife Law

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Ultrarunner Karen Williams with Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post Monday to talk about their mission to protect bears. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Karen Williams with Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard last Thursday during their visit to the La Cueva Fire Department to thank them for rescuing Williams after she was attacked by a bear June 18 while running a marathon in the Valles Caldera. Photo by Robert Borden/Jemez Thunder

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Recent bear attack victim Karen Williams stopped by

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Pedestrian Bridge Installed At Los Alamos Reservoir

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Workers bring in a tall crane to install a pedestrian bridge Wednesday at the Los Alamos Reservoir. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Pedestrian bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
The pedestrian bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Here comes the pedestrian bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Lowering down the bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Lowering the bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
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Nature Center: Aparejo Burro Packing July 20

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Learn about the Aparejo Packing System July 20 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Ever wonder what it would be like to meet burros up close? Come to the Los Alamos Nature Center at 6:30 p.m., July 20 to find out.

Thanks to a sponsorship from Del Norte Credit Union, the Aparejo Packing System will demonstrate the old Spanish-style packing system on live burros. Meet the friendly mules face-to-face and learn about their work as cargo-movers along the trails of the Southwest. Staff also will be available to answer any questions. This event is part of PEEC’s Summer Family Evenings. Read More

Sierra Club Statement On Crude Oil And Wastewater Tankers Explosion

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SIERRA CLUB News:

NAGEEZI – Monday night, 36 tankers storing crude oil and wastewater exploded and burned.

According to reports, approximately 10 families were evacuated and as of this morning, the fire has yet to be extinguished.

In response, Sierra Club Beyond Dirty Fuels Director Lena Moffitt released the following statement:

“Our thoughts are with the families affected by this disaster, which further highlights the extreme dangers dirty fuels pose not only to our climate and public health, but to our communities. We cannot continue to permit corporate polluters to put their profits Read More

PBS Science Café: Black Holes—Masters Of The Milky Way July 16

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July’s PBS Science Café examines the birth, evolution, and death of black holes with Dr. Rick Wallace in the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Astronomers are closing in on the proof they’ve sought for years that one of the most destructive objects in the universe—a supermassive black hole—lurks at the center of our own galaxy. Could it flare up and consume our entire galactic neighborhood? Find out at July’s New Mexico PBS Science Café on Saturday, July 16 at the Los Alamos Nature Center..
 
Come to the July New Mexico PBS Science
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Half A Million People Urge U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Not To Abandon Red Wolves

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ESC News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A petition including nearly half a million signatures was delivered to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today urging the agency to fulfill its legal duty under the Endangered Species Act to recover the critically endangered red wolf.
 
To spur the agency to resume efforts to save a species now reduced to an estimated wild population of only 45, nearly 500,000 names were submitted in a petition drive organized the Animal Welfare Institute, Care2, the Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Coalition and the Wildlands Network, and
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Los Alamos Computational Scientist Wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award

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LANL’s Ludmil Alexandrov wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award.

LANL News:

Ludmil Alexandrov, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group, is the winner of the 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award. Given biennially by the journal Carcinogenesis: Integrative Cancer Research, published by Oxford University Press, and the European Association for Cancer Research, the award recognizes a recent significant contribution to carcinogenesis research by an investigator under the age of 40.

“Ludmil’s research uses large-scale computational Read More

How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘The Martian’?

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Mars. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Is The Martian movie far fetched? What is the atmosphere like on the surface of Mars? How long can an astronaut survive there?

Astrophysicist Rick Wallace will lead a full-dome planetarium show and discussion of Mars at 7 p.m. Friday, July 15, including the challenges, opportunities and realities of this red planet. This fascinating Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) program is in the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 2600 Canyon Road.

For more information about this and other PEEC programs, visit www.peecnature.org Read More

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Introduces Bipartisan Bill To Create Tax Credit For Energy Storage

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

  • Legislation establishes incentives for business and home use of energy storage

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, has introduced S. 3159, the Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act, a bipartisan bill cosponsored by U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Angus King (I-Maine), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), to establish investment Read More

U.S. Suffers $8 Billion In Climate-related Disasters

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Elevated tornado activity linked to climate change. Courtesy/commons.wikimdia.org

NATIONAL News:

We are only halfway through 2016 and the United States has already seen eight weather and climate-related disasters* that have each met or exceeded $1 billion in damages.

These eight disasters resulted in the loss of thirty lives, and caused at least $13.1 billion. Since 1980 the United States has sustained 196 weather and climate disasters in which overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The total cost of these 196 events exceeds $1.1 trillion.

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