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Climate Change

Twenty Years Later, Katrina Still Haunts the Gulf from New Orleans to Houston

A killer storm two decades past still teaches lessons about survival and resilience in a world where weather is getting more extreme.

by Lise Olsen

Keep Reading

Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.

by Candice Bernd

‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’: Texans Hang On in Tragedy-Stricken Hill Country

by Candice Bernd

‘Disasters Are a Human Choice’: Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas

by Joshua Fechter and Paul Cobler

A bridge crosses a dry, scrub-covered creek bed without a hint of water in sight, under a big partly cloudy sky. Jan 23, 2024

Another Hot, Dry Summer May Push Parts of Texas to the Brink

Some areas are starting the year with low water reserves, and forecasters don’t expect substantial relief from the weather.

by Dylan Baddour

A latinx woman in a black t-shirt reading "Allergic to Pendebrajas" stands in her suburban neighborhjood in West Dallas. Jan 02, 2024

How Texas Commission On Environmental Quality Helps Polluters Evade Federal Law

Environmental lawyers say the state watchdog agency lets polluters escape regulation through legal loopholes.

by Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, and Alejandra Martinez

A Vietnamese man works on bright green shrimp nets aboard the slanted deck of a shrimp boat at sea. Nov 15, 2023

Disaster Declared for Texas Shrimp

The U.S. market—and seafood processors’ freezers—are overflowing with cheap farm-raised imports.

by Paula Levihn-Coon

A haphazard pile of open, used textbooks, seen from the top edge of the books, with a pencil across the open page of the top textbook. Nov 14, 2023

Republicans Target ‘Woke’ Climate Change Topics in Science Textbooks

Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian wants the Board of Education to reject accurate descriptions of environmental science in school books.

by Kristoffer Tigue

A flare goes off from a smokestack between two drilling rigs on a small hill in a West Texas oil field. Oct 23, 2023

Texas Still Issues Thousands of Permits for Natural Gas Flaring

Advocates say the approval process is more of a "rubber stamp" for oil and gas companies to keep polluting indefinitely.

by Martha Pskowski

Agricultural workers pick jalapeño peppers near Boquilla, Chihuahua in September 2023. Oct 18, 2023

In Mexico, Tensions Rise Again over 1944 Water Treaty

After decades of negotiations and even a dramatic occupation of a dam in Chiahuaha state, two nations struggle to find a compromise.

by Martha Pskowski

August summer in Galveston during a record-breaking heat wave. Beach goers cool off under rented umbrellas or in the ocean, with the beachfront hotels in the backdrop. Sep 21, 2023

A Sizzling, Record-Breaking Summer

Experts warn that increasingly high temperatures are "a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system."

by Max Graham

An aerial view of an oil and gas refinery on the Gulf Coast in Texas City. Smokestacks and storage containers dot the landscape under a partly cloudy sky. Sep 13, 2023

Texas Bets on Undersea Carbon Capture, Despite Concerns

Critics worry about leakage through rock layers, pipeline safety and the lackluster record of the technology onshore.

by Amal Ahmed

A composite image, showing an outdoor music party glowing with lasers and colorful people on the right, and on the left the cover of The Free People's Village by Sim Kern, which shows a punk smashing a police robot with a baseball bat. Sep 12, 2023

The Free People’s Village: Everyday Life in Solarpunk Texas

In a novelist’s alternative Texas, Al Gore became president and the War on Climate Change began. What could go wrong?

by Texas Observer Staff

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