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New Mexico Fire Is Now Largest in State's History

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In northern New Mexico, the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire is now the single largest in state history, blazing through more than 298,060 acres so far.

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Biden Declares New Mexico Wildfires a Disaster

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The largest is a megafire in northern New Mexico’s San Miguel County called the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire, which has burned more than 165,000 acres (257 square miles) of forest and grassland and is only 20% contained. new mexico wildfires biden disaster accident environment santa fe national forest megafire los alamos national laboratory calf canyonhermits peak fire wildfire california counties disasters articles western united states wildfire season cooks peak fire

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New Mexico Firefighters Rescue Adorable Elk Calf

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This year’s fire season is already off to a grueling start in New Mexico, as the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire became the state’s largest wildfire in history earlier this month.

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Photos Show Shockingly Low Water at New Mexico's Largest Reservoir

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Like Lake Mead and Lake Powell along the Colorado River, New Mexico’s largest reservoir has reached alarmingly low levels.

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Biggest Forest Fire in New Mexico History

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A New Mexico Town Is About to Run Out of Drinking Water

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A town in New Mexico is facing a triple punch of climate impacts from wildfire, drought, and intense rainfall. The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico is set to run out of drinking water in September, thanks to pollution and debris from the largest wildfire in state history.

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Bones of Mammoths Seemingly Butchered by Humans Found in New Mexico

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The bones of a mammoth and calf recently uncovered in New Mexico show signs of butchering, an exciting find that could help refine estimates of when humans first populated the Americas.

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Two Fires Have Joined Forces in New Mexico as Southwest Wildfires Continue to Blaze

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Two wildfires in New Mexico combined and have burned 54,004 acres of land since they first merged, according to an update by New Mexico Fire Information.

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New Mexico Jail Forced Into Lockdown After Cyberattack Incapacitates Cameras, Doors

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A suspected ransomware attack in New Mexico has incapacitated services for an entire county, including the local jail—which frighteningly lost access to its camera feeds, facility databases, and automated doors.

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New Triceratops Relative Found on Ted Turner’s Ranch in New Mexico

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The reanalysis of a fossil found more than 20 years ago in New Mexico has resulted in the discovery of an entirely new species of horned dinosaur.

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Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues

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A New Mexico sheriff running as the tough-on-crime candidate for the mayorship of Albuquerque was buzzed at a campaign event on Tuesday by a small drone with a giant dildo attached to it.

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EON Reality and the New Mexico State University System Collaborate for New EON-XR Rollout

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EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces a new collaboration with New Mexico State University (NMSU) to launch a brand new EON-XR rollout.

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Federal Authorities Confirm Sighting of Yet Another UFO, This Time in New Mexico

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Multiple authorities have confirmed that commercial airline pilots recently saw, well, something, hurtling through America’s southwestern skies. Read more. airlines unidentified flying object aviation american airlines china airlines steve douglass

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A Human Toddler and a Mammoth Crossed Paths in Ancient New Mexico, Footprints Suggest

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Someone—maybe an adolescent, maybe someone older—rushed across the edge of Lake Otero, slipping as they walked but moving steadily ahead.

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Virgin Galactic Aborts New Mexico Launch Because of Rocket Motor Issues

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Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic—the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space—aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today because of an issue with its rocket motor. Read more.

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New Mexico Man Starts Driving Home From Albertson's Before Noticing Beees, Thousands of Beees!

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Do you hear that? Buzz buzz. Vroom vroom. Buzz, buzz. Vroom vroom. That’s the sound of the car bees. Read more.

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After Accidentally Starting Huge Wildfire, Forest Service Admits It's Stumped by Climate Change

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The largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history is still burning. The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire, which began in April, has covered more than 341,471 acres so far.

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Virgin Galactic to launch first crewed test flight from New Mexico this month

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Virgin Galactic is coming closer to bringing paying tourists to the edge of space, perform its first crewed test flight from Spaceport America later this month. News breaking twitter space space tourism Virgin Galactic vss unity

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Footprints Suggest Humans Migrated Deep Into North America Earlier Than Previously Known

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The Radical Possibility of Deb Haaland at the Department of Interior

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Scream 6 Brings Back a Few More Survivors

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The Omen prequel has found its director. Westworld season 4 adds another big name to its roster. The Boys ’ college supes spinoff has had another cast shakeup. Plus, Syfy un-cancels SurrealEstate , and the CW is still trying to make that Powerpuff Girls show. Spoilers now! Read more.

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Watch Boeing’s Starliner capsule land at end of crucial test mission

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has returned to Earth at the end of a crucial test mission, landing in New Mexico shortly before 5 p.m. local time. News Space Boeing NASA spacecraft starliner

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Virgin Galactic’s test flight of space tourism craft fails to reach space

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Virgin Galactic's first crewed test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity craft from Spaceport America in New Mexico has failed to reach the boundary of space.

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Boeing's Starliner Has Landed, but Questions Remain After Imperfect Mission

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Boeing’s Starliner successfully touched down yesterday on the sandy surface of the New Mexico desert, marking the completion of the first uncrewed end-to-end test of the spacecraft.

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The Rio Grande Is Running Dry in Albuquerque

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Following a period of incredibly hot days in July, a stretch of the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque, New Mexico is nothing more than a… Read more.

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The CW's Recent Cancellations are All Because of Streaming and Mergers

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Not only have fan favorites like Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman been abruptly canceled, earlier this week the network bid farewell to other series including Naomi, Charmed, and Roswell, New Mexico. For fans of the CW’s original programming, it’s a been rough couple of days.

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10 “Metaversities” Are Opening Across The US This Fall

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The list includes one veteran school as well as six new metaversities. Participating universities include West Virginia University, the University of Maryland, and Morehouse College just to name a few.

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The Beer of the Future Tastes Like Ass

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Virtual Aquarium Brings Children’s Aquatic Art To Life

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Visitors can design custom sea creatures and feed their digital creations. Next-generation art collective teamLab is on a mission to blend the worlds of technology, art, science, design, and nature.

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Wildfire Rages Through Suburbs of Athens, Greece

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Wildfires have been wreaking havoc over the past few weeks, as several fires—like the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico—continue to burn.

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Meet the Unlikely TikTok Star Who Hunts Wildfires From the Top of a Mountain

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The video, posted from Sims’s home in a fire tower in New Mexico, walks viewers through the two bathroom options available at her lookout: a vault toilet (waste goes into a… Read more.

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Officials Snuck Captive-Bred Wolf Pups Into Wild Dens to Try to Boost Their Population

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In early May, the small captive-bred canines were placed into the dens of five wild wolf packs across Arizona and New Mexico. The future of Mexican wolves in the U.S. Southwest is partly in the hands, or paws, of 11 adorable wolf pups.

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Intel to Invest $3.5 Billion USD into Foveros and EMIB Production in Rio Rancho

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At a news conference today, Intel has announced that its Rio Rancho campus in New Mexico will be getting an investment of $3.5 This comes on top of the $20 billion USD that Intel has committed to two new fabrication plants in its Ocotillo campus in Arizona for wafer production.

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Jimmy feels the heat in Better Call Saul season 6 trailer

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Better Call Saul's final season begins as Jimmy and Kim start to feel the pressure from their darkest impulses as a drug war brews in New Mexico.

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I Miss My First (and Only) Medium Format Camera

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One of the most sickening sounds I have ever heard was the crunch when my just-purchased Mamiya 7 fell out of my passenger seat and onto the pavement outside the post office in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.

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Eduverse to launch in Second Life this weekend

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Info Center at the new Eduverse by VWEC. “There is a plan to have an education-related portal for the new users to create new or institutional accounts, and land them at the sim instead of the standard welcome island,” he told New World Notes.

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New Doctor Who Set Pictures Tease David Tennant's Updated Costume

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Plus, what’s coming on the now-final season of Roswell, New Mexico. Even more actors join Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon. Get a look at the cast of HBO’s Gremlins cartoon, Secrets of the Mogwai. The first images from the Quantum Leap reboot are here.

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