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Haunted by Waters

Every new home is another straw sipping from the reservoirs, which, increasingly in the added heat of climate change, have turned into what a Texas drought expert refers to as “giant evaporation ponds.” Evaporation rates of surface water in the Hill Country are approximately 57 inches per year.

Natural World

Racing the Sun

"An eclipse, like all of nature’s majestic endeavors, can fill a soul with edifying conclusions. Eclipses are rare and those with totality are even more scant and scattered across history’s timeline."

environment

Cold Weather

Me and friends from Houston have gone skiing out west. We’d unzip jackets and even remove them. It was dry there. We weren’t the wimps we seemed.

environment

We’re on The Eve of (Self) Destruction

We can look into one billboard-sized mirror and see the origins of most of life’s ills. And here’s the pun…it’s not new news that humans, not magic, are the lead source of misery and destruction.

environment

Revenge? or Do Orcas Just Wanna Have Fun?

This whale of a story is about more than ship-beating orcas, it’s about the imbalance we cause on the planet. If the orcas are performing payback, it’s time for us to pay attention.

Energy

Enjoy Last Summer? Here It Comes Again.

How one Texas non-thinking think tank is shaping the debate. (I'm looking at you, Texas Public Policy Foundation.)

Energy

Texas Energy Leadership, Boldly Marching in Place

When the Kyoto Protocols were signed to reduce carbon emissions, the fossil fuel industry decided, to quote Dean Wormer, "It's time for somebody to put his foot down. And that foot is me."

environment

How the West Was Lost

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” - W.H. Auden

environment

Poachers- Crimes Against Nature

"It is mind-numbing when you consider the creative and depraved ways, we humans underappreciate the environment that nurtures and sustains us. Blame it on a lack of education or a lack of conscience, or unmanageable greed, these acts against nature will lead to our ruin in one way or another."

environment

Ungulate Replacement Theory Comes to Texas

The Big Battle in the Big Bend Between Bighorn Sheep and Aoudads

environment

Seeking Life, Hope and Renewal, These Texas Migrants Don’t Come to Stay

As with everything that breathes and moves on the planet, Migratory birds require protection from . . . us.

climate change

"I'M SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND ELECTRIC TRUCKS IN HERE"

Automakers want to make money, and they want to keep making money decades down the road. And they are all, to a man and woman, betting on electric vehicles.

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