WASHINGTON, May 14 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Dangerously Unrealistic Logging Plan Spurs Call for Immediate Fuels Reduction to Protect Cloudcroft, Sacramento Mountains ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- Citing high costs, a decades-long timeframe, lack of implementation capacity and needless environmental damage, the Center for Biological Diversity today urged the U.S. Forest Service to immediately begin fuels reduction in New Mexico's  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 14 [Category: Political] -- Santa Fe Institute posted the following news release: * * * Kaleda Denton named runner-up for 2025 John Maynard Smith Prize SFI postdoctoral fellow Kaleda Denton has been recognized by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology as the runner-up for the 2025 John Maynard Smith Prize for outstanding young biologists. Denton studies the relationship between genetic and non-genetic factors in evolution, interrogating how genes and cultur  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, May 15 -- The State Bar of New Mexico issued the following news: * * * The New Mexico State Bar Foundation's Legal Resources for the Elderly Program is Hosting a Free In-Person Legal Workshop and Clinic for New Mexico Residents in Roswell on June 2 The New Mexico State Bar Foundation's Legal Resources for the Elderly Program (LREP) will be hosting a free in-person legal workshop and Power of Attorney Clinic for New Mexico residents on June 2 in Roswell, New Mexico at   more

EUGENE, Oregon, May 15 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: * * * Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) today adopted a rule that prohibits the discharge of "produced water" to New Mexico's ground and surface waters. Produced water is a waste byproduct of oil and gas operations and contains hundreds of known and unknown chemical  more