Drought gobbles up Texas turkey hunt
Turkey-hunting season in Texas is in a dry spell, with more young jakes than bearded toms in the bead of hunters' shotguns.
Rockies and Everest lose ice and snow
The Rockies have lost significant amounts of snow cover since 1980, with climate change caused by human activities thought partly responsible.
Tinderbox-dry Western US at high risk of major wildfires
Federal officials are preparing for another challenging fire season, complicated by budget cuts.
Texas groundwater levels drop sharply, study finds
Levels in major aquifers dropped considerably from 2010 to 2011, as the state's drought intensified.
A water generation gap portends confrontation between Texas’ past, future
Austin-based journalist Ari Phillips, reporting on his recent travels in Central Texas, examines the Hill Country's famed springs as a microcosm of complex water issues facing all of the state and most of the Western U.S.
As water legislation stalls, Texas’ drought goes on and on (and on)
While lawmakers grappled with water issues, a new report offered yet another reminder that the drought that prompted all of the recent, high-level attention to Texas' growing water needs was far from over.
Austin company has unique answer to capturing CO2 emissions
In an effort to curb emissions from industrial plants, the company's technology turns the greenhouse gas into solids that can be sold commercially.
Galveston still healing, 5 years after Hurricane Ike
Houses stand vacant, the city is locked in litigation with a state-run insurance agency, and a fight over rebuilding public housing is finally nearing resolution.
More states blow the whistle on high school football heat illness
With spring practices underway, states are changing how high school football teams deal with the heat.
Texas GOP pursues 2-pronged strategy against greenhouse-gas permitting
A House-passed bill tells state officials to issue emission-cutting permits under U.S. regulations they have refused to implement. But the bill would drop the requirement if Texas wins its legal fight against the rules.
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