Environment

LANL: Exotic Element Californium Explored In Detail

Solid-state structure of molecule containing californium-carbon bonding. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

New work led by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), in the journal Nature this week, reports the first structural characterization of californium-carbon bonding in a molecule. Such analysis allows scientists to assess periodic reactivity and bonding trends in an otherwise mysterious element.

“Californium captures the imagination and offers broad science appeal because of its exotic place in the periodic table,” said Andrew Gaunt, a Los Alamos chemist and one of the paper’s lead Read More

PEEC: Celebrate Upcoming Launch Of James Webb Space Telescope At White Rock Branch Library Saturday Nov. 20

The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures that fold up around the telescope for launch, are seen partially deployed to an open configuration to enable telescope installation. Courtesy/NASA/Chris Gunn

PEEC News:

The community is invited to join the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) and Los Alamos County Library to celebrate the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

This family-friendly celebration is 3:30-5 p.m. Saturday Nov. 20 at the White Rock Public Library on Sherwood Boulevard.

People of all ages Read More

On The Job In Los Alamos: Salaiz Landscaping Crew

On the job in Los Alamos Monday pruning trees and shrubs at a residence in Quemazon is, from left, owner Ricardo Bojorquez and employees Antonio Caballero, Alvaro Dominguez and Enrique Ontiveros of Salaiz Landscaping. Bojorquez started his business a year and a half ago. Service include flag stone and patio work, irrigation systems, trimming, yard cleanup and snow removal. For more information, call 505.551.0320, 505.557.8544 or email salaiz.landscaping2020@gmail.com. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Nov. 17, 2020

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

A little more than a week away from Thanksgiving and the weather remains warm and dry. Looking up into the mountains and remembering years when by now they were white with snow with another storm on the way, one wonders if we are in for another winter without a good snowpack.

With a La Nina effect forecast for the next few months, the prospects for a good early ski season and heavy spring runoff to help fill our sadly-depleted reservoirs are not looking good.

With so many of the recent winters being warmer and drier than they used to be, you can’t Read More

Los Alamos Garden Club Publicly Thanks Metzger’s

From Los Alamos Garden Club:

The Los Alamos Garden Club would like to publicly thank General Manager David Jolly and Metzger’s Hardware for their generosity and support in our community!

The Memorial Rose Garden at Fuller Lodge has been maintained by the Los Alamos Garden Club for many years and has been in need of extra care due to the high presence of deer and a lack of sunshine.

Compost and peat moss were needed to enhance the soil in the garden. At the request of our club, Metzger’s donated and delivered 30 bags of manure and discounted 15 bags of peat moss for the Rose Garden enjoyed by so many.

This Read More

Heinrich Welcomes Action On Chaco Mineral Withdrawal

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to begin the process to withdraw federal minerals within the Chaco Culture Heritage Withdrawal Area from future mineral development, including new oil and gas leasing. 

In May, Sen. Heinrich was the first member of the New Mexico delegation to request the administrative withdrawal, sending a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking that she begin the process. Over the last decade, Read More

Nature On Tap: Local Mountain Lion Research Monday

PEEC and Los Alamos Creative District host Nature On Tap at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Los Alamos Nature Center featuring a talk by VCNP’s Mark Peyton and Bandelier’s Sarah Milligan. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Join the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) and Los Alamos Creative District Monday, for Nature On Tap at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Los Alamos Nature Center, 2600 Canyon Road.

This event will feature a presentation about the Large Mammal Monitoring Project from Valles Caldera National Preserve’s Mark Peyton and Bandelier National Monument’s Sarah Milligan. 

The Large Mammal Read More

New Mexico AG & NMED Secretary Ask US Court Of Appeals To Review Nuclear Regulatory Commission Decision

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas

From the Office of the Attorney General:

SANTA FE – New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas and Environment Secretary James Kenney Friday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to review the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to grant a license to build a “Consolidated Interim Storage Facility” (CISF) in Andrews County, Texas.

The facility, known as the Waste Control Specialists (WCS) CISF, would be located just a quarter of a mile from the New Mexico Border, 5 miles east of Eunice, New Mexico, and 45 miles east of Read More

Daily Postcard: Memorial Butterfly Garden On Barranca Mesa

In 2021, Selvi Viswanathan planted a memorial butterfly garden for her dear mother. Viswanathan’s gardener and his daughter added chrysanthemums, which are still blooming Friday in the garden at Viswanathan’s residence on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan

The daughter of Selvi Viswanathan’s gardener created this butterfly, which she created by painting rocks as an addition to the memorial butterfly garden Viswanathan planted in 2010 for her beloved mother at her residence on Barranca Mesa. Photo by  Selvi Viswanathan

Another view of the memorial butterfly garden Selvi Viswanathan Read More

Governor, Leadership Highlight Global Climate Conference

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

From the Office of the Governor:

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham concluded her time at the U.N. Climate Change Conference Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, when she committed the state to further high-impact climate actions alongside other national governors.

The governor joined the United States Climate Alliance and the governors of Hawai’i, Illinois, Oregon and Washington to make climate action commitments around energy, buildings, industry, transportation, just transition and equity, resilience, natural and working lands, and the social cost

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Buck Chews Branches At Los Alamos County Eco Station

While offloading brush at the Los Alamos County Eco Station Friday on West Jemez Road, this handsome buck was spotted on the other side of a brush pile nibbling bark off branches. It reminds one of Churchill, Manitoba: You can go to the dump in Churchill to see polar bears or go to the dump in Los Alamos to see beautiful bucks. Photo by Ken Hanson
A buck looks up from chewing on branches Friday at the Eco Station. Photo by Ken Hanson
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