Alice Fordham
ReporterAlice Fordham joined the news team in 2022 after a career as an international correspondent, reporting for NPR from the Middle East and later Latin America and Europe. She also worked as a podcast producer for The Economist among other outlets, and tries to meld a love of sound and storytelling with solid reporting on the community. She grew up in the U.K. and has a small jar of Marmite in her kitchen for emergencies.
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There have already been more than 350 scam calls reported this year, with businesses and residential customers both being targeted.
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Julia Bernal called for an end to business as usual and criticized some new energy technologies.
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Last fiscal year, the U.S. Forest Service conducted planned burns on just under 2 million acres, an agency record. In the wake of last year's Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon disaster, which began as prescribed fire, many in New Mexico are nervous when such burns come near their homes.
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A top strategy for preventing catastrophic wildfires is periodically burning forests under controlled conditions. The U.S. Forest Service conducted more "prescribed" fires than ever this year.
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Members of the group Jewish Voices for Peace and their supporters including YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Action) led a demonstration outside the office of Congressional Representative Melanie Stansbury in Albuquerque on Nov. 20.
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Rachel Morgan's new book tells the story of how 19th century adventurers explored the archaeology of the Southwest, and the devastation they wrought on archaeological sites.
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The National Climate Assessment, which comes out every five years, finds fires are expected to get hotter, more destructive and more widespread.
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An exhibition of the work of gay and lesbian artists in the Southwest during the first part of the 20th century opens November 11 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900-1969 will showcase the work of people who came to the region seeking freedom denied elsewhere.
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The wildfire crisis in the United States is urgent, severe and far-reaching. So says a Congressional committee report that came out last month, which also noted federal agencies estimate the total cost of wildfire nationwide is on the order of tens to hundreds of billions every year. And strategies to mitigate the risk in New Mexico rely on getting communities on board.
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Eleven providers will receive grants totalling $18 million in the first tranche of funding.