Arizona came in dead last at 51, New Mexico ranked at number 49, and Texas ranked at number 40. Arizona and New Mexico shared ...

The New Mexico park says that a discarded snack bag may seem trivial but the impact to the ecosystem can be huge, urging ...

Staff at Carlsbad shared that a visitor left behind a bag of Cheetos in the Big Room- the largest single cave chamber by ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (WKRC) - National park officials called a dropped bag of Cheetos "world changing." Carlsbad Caverns National ...

Some litter at a national park may seem inconsequential, but for the fragile ecosystem in the caverns, it's a major ...

Robert Melnick, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, discusses the consequences of leaving a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

The Cheetos' processed corn was softened by the humidity of the cave and "formed the perfect environment" to welcome and host ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park officials in New Mexico recently condemned the leaving of a Cheetos snack bag in one of the ...

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"At the scale of human perspective, a spilled snack bag may seem trivial, but to the life of the cave it can be world ...