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Amid climate change, the plight of birds 50 New Mexico species will lose habitat due to warmer temperatures, more persistent drought, according to report
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The Islamic State group released a video Saturday of the third beheading of a foreign hostage, a British aid worker. The execution was a clear message to Britain, a key ally of the United States as it builds an international coalition to target the militant group, which has made stunning advances across Syria and northern Iraq in recent months. The video shows the aid worker, David Cawthorne Haines, kneeling on a bare hill under the open sky, in a landscape that appears identical to where two American journalists were killed by the group in back-toback executions in the past month. In the moments before his death, the 44-year-old Haines is forced to read a script, in which he blames his country’s leaders for his killing. “I would like to declare that I hold you, David Cameron, entirely responsible for my execution,” he said, referring to Britain’s prime minister,
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BLACK ROSY FINCH: A SPECIES AT RISK These images taken from an interactive map by the National Audubon Society show the winter range for the black rosy finch, above, which extends south to the Sandia Crest. The darker the color, the more favorable the climate conditions are for survival. The map shows the birds disappearing from New Mexico by 2080.
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Biologist Raymond VanBuskirk, president of the Central New Mexico Audubon chapter in Albuquerque, releases a black rosy finch he banded. Vanbuskirk, 24, has studied three types of rosy finches on the Sandia Crest for a decade. He said the species’ survival is in question because of climate change. COURTESY JESSE SWIFT
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decade ago, clouds of little rosy finches would swoop down to feed at the top of the Sandia Crest overlooking Albuquerque. Birders would come from all over to see the rare birds that thrived in the high-mountain air and seldom ventured below 10,000 feet. But the birds, with their plumage of black, brown, gray and rose-colored feathers, have been appearing in fewer numbers in recent years. And as climate change brings warmer temperatures and more persistent drought, the finches are among 50 species of birds in New Mexico — from the Bullock’s oriole to the prairie falcon — that will see their summer and winter ranges decline or shift in the coming decades, according to a new report from the National Audubon Society. “As many as 1,000 finches would come at once like a school of fish,” said Albuquerque biologist Raymond VanBuskirk, who has been studying the rosy finches since he was 13. “They would feed frantically and then fly off.” Audubon bird scientists analyzed four decades of North American cli-
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Three years ago, Harvard Business School asked thousands of its graduates, many of whom are leaders of America’s top companies, where their firms had decided to locate jobs in the previous year. The responses led the researchers to declare a “competitiveness problem” at home: HBS alumni reported 56 separate instances where they moved 1,000 or more U.S. jobs to foreign countries, zero cases of moving that many jobs in one block to America from abroad, and just four cases of creating that many new jobs in the United States. Three in four respondents said American competitiveness was falling. Harvard released a similar survey this week, which suggested executives aren’t as glum about American competitiveness as they once were; a majority of alums now say competitiveness is improving or treading water. Three years of economic growth and record corporate profits will do that for you. Companies don’t appear any more keen on American workers today, though. The Harvard grads are down
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FIND A BIRD AND READ THE REPORT See the Audubon bird report, the science behind it and more interactive maps showing bird territory and predicted lost habitat at www.audubon.org. The maps allow a viewer to select bird species and see the predicted territory where they might survive in 2020, 2050 and 2080. ber Monday, Septem
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mate data and millions of bird records from the U.S. Geological Survey’s North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Audubon Christmas Bird Count to come up with their findings in the new report. The seven-year study looked at data for 588 bird species that live in or migrate across North America. Of those, 126 species face severe population declines by 2050, and 188 more species will be impacted by 2080. “The report is very significant because it represents new science and new modeling,” said Carol Beidleman, director of bird conservation for Audubon New Mexico. “In terms of findings, this study really brings to the fore that climate change is the number one threat facing birds.” In New Mexico, it isn’t just pretty songbirds and important pollinators like hummingbirds that will be hurt by climate change. The bright blue pinyon jays around Northern New Mexico will have a tough time finding a new place to live as the piñon forests they depend on for food and nesting disappear. The golden-eyed burrowing owl already
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The nation’s nuclear weapons laboratories are woefully unprepared to respond to emergencies, from small radiation leaks to large-scale disasters like the 2011 Fukushima meltdown in Japan, according to a sweeping new federal study. The study, released this month by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, looked at 17 sites across the country over the last three years, including three in New Mexico — Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad and Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. The report points to the three New Mexico sites as examples of various gaps in emergency readiness endemic throughout the nation’s nuclear defense system. The troubling assessment also comes as Energy and Defense department officials are considering sharply ramping up production of nuclear weapons components at Los Alamos and Sandia. Safety and regulatory problems at the nuclear facilities have been under a harsh spotlight in recent months after a drum containing radioactive
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