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Most Recent in Politics:

1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

3Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

4First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

5Trump’s Twitter Account Alone Disqualifies Him for POTUS

6Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

Most Recent in Environment:

1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

3Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

4The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

5Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

6Report: Seven Texas Coal Plants Could Close in Coming Years

Most Recent in Border:

1Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

2Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

3In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

4Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

5Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

6TCEQ: Contested Coal Mine Can Release Wastewater Into Drinking Supply

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in Education:

1Hostile Takeover

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

4Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

5Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: Drought

June 2016 State of Texas, houston flooding, climate change

by Naveena Sadasivam

State of Texas: These Days, When it Rains it Pours

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Fri, May 27, 2016 |

The recent flooding in and around Houston is linked to climate change, which scientists say is leading to heavy rains and also more extreme droughts....Read More

The sun sets over Bastrop County, burned trees and barren land marring its horizon.

by Hannah McBride

Wildfires Likely the ‘New Normal’ for Bastrop

Climate change has come to Bastrop, whether or not Texas politicians are willing to admit it.

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Thu, Oct 22, 2015 |

Experts say wildfires in Bastrop County are happening with greater frequency and intensity — a troubling trend for an area that’s grown more than 30 percent...Read More

Wimberley town hall on water

by Forrest Wilder

Hill Country Water Torture

Mon, Mar 9, 2015 |

Fighting over groundwater rights is all too common in Texas, but the Electro Purification deal has inflamed people unlike any other. ...Read More

Katharine Hayhoe and Michael Webber on climate change

by Katharine Hayhoe and Michael Webber

The Next 60: Cutting Carbon and Reinventing the Economy

Thu, Dec 18, 2014 |

Texas is uniquely vulnerable to a changing climate but also poised to take advantage of a carbon-free economy that includes wind and solar power....Read More

The treatment tank for a permitted graywater system in Austin. The wastewater from the washing machine (background) is piped to the tank and later used to irrigate a small garden.

by Fauzeya Rahman

Untapped

How graywater could be a conservation method for the masses. (But isn't.)

Wed, Nov 19, 2014 |

Graywater has the potential to be a significant water conservation method in Texas but cities have done very little to encourage its use....Read More

WA Parish coal plant

by Forrest Wilder

What Climate Change Means for Texas in 11 Charts

Thu, May 8, 2014 |

The National Climate Assessment finds that Texas is getting hotter and drier, putting more stress on water resources, farmers and ecosystems. Meanwhile, the sta...Read More

Texas Barnett Shale gas drilling rig near Alvarado, Texas

by Forrest Wilder

Study: In Midst of Drought, Fracking Industry Does Little to Recycle Water

Tue, Feb 4, 2014 |

A new study finds that the oil and gas industry has made very little progress on recycling water from fracking in North Texas' Barnett Shale....Read More

Loon Star State

Drought Relief

Wed, Jan 22, 2014 |

An oil field south of Odessa, TX.

by Forrest Wilder

New Analysis: Fracking Water Use Underestimated in Eagle Ford Shale

Fri, Dec 27, 2013 |

The amount of water used by frackers in South Texas is increasingly coming into focus—and it's considerably more than official estimates....Read More

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