Environment

How Can You Tell If Soil Is Healthy? Just Listen to It.

First-of-its-kind research shows how "ecoacoustics" can help scientists monitor the health of soils—using underground critter concerts.

How a Laredo activist and her scrappy environmental group have fought back against powerful interests in South Texas

A note from the new interim editor-in-chief

Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.

PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.

Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.

A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.

Blocked in Louisiana, Formosa Plastics looks to grow around Texas' Lavaca Bay, but it and other industrial plants are waiting for water.

This is fine.

Exploring the foliage for crawling, flying critters in one of Austin’s most beautiful nature preserves.