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Salt's secret success in ancient Chaco Canyon
2016-10-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A team of University of Cincinnati researchers had to go deep to uncover brand new knowledge that they say will “shake up” the archaeological field in the southwestern United States. Various salt compounds found deep in the soil of New Mexico's desert may be the key to understanding how crops were cultivated in ancient Chaco Canyon — despite the backdrop of what seems an otherwise arid and desolate landscape, according to a University of Cincinnati …
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Courtroom slugfest nears rilling creeps toward ancient Chaco world
2015-07-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: Kyle Tisdel and Samantha Ruscavage-Barz sift through rocks beside a dusty road in New Mexico's high desert, searching for remnants of life a thousand years past. With the nearest meager town of Cuba an hour away, they're off the beaten path by any standard. But to them, these dirt roads surrounding Chaco Canyon are the front lines of a monumental battle pitting ancient Pueblo culture against the modern world's thirst for oil. This region of northwest New Mexico, about 75 miles south of Farmington,...
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Wells creep toward Chaco
2014-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Durango Herald: From the air a spiderweb of roads connecting oil and gas wells crisscrossing the desert south of Farmington is visible, cutting into a delicate desert landscape that holds sacred sites and immense energy reserves. As the seemingly hodgepodge network of wells creeps closer to the boundary of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, created to preserve ancient ruins, environmental and tribal groups worry that an opportunity for better planning is being missed. About 90 percent of the public land...
Bolivia's indigenous people join fight to save Gran Chaco wilderness
2013-07-08 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Only from Cerro Colorado a rocky outcrop that rears vertiginously over the treetops is it possible to make out the vastness of the Gran Chaco as it stretches from this corner of Bolivia beyond the horizon into Paraguay. This enormous swath of dry forest and scrubland, where every plant or tree bears thorns, is South America's second largest wilderness after the Amazon rainforest. The Gran Chaco is threatened on all sides: Mennonite cattle ranchers have bought up large tracts in Paraguay and...
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