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Texas leaders are asking data centers how much water they use. Most aren’t responding
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (775+ words) Data centers use water to cool their massive arrays of computer servers. A state agency sent out a survey to figure out how much, but less than a third of the companies responded. Data centers need a lot of water…...
Is Texas' most famous endangered bird finally making a comeback?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (430+ words) A new survey estimated 540 whooping cranes wintered on the Texas coast during the 2025-2026 season. Whooping cranes are showing up in places Texans don't normally expect to see them. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported Wednesday that an estimated 540 whooping cranes…...
Nature: Cormorants in California
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (27+ words) We leave you this Sunday with a colony of cormorants and friends putting on a show near Santa Cruz, California. Videographer: Lance Milbrand. Nature: Cormorants in California...
Texas governor wants to speed up work on a fly-breeding factory to fight a cattle parasite
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (956+ words) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expressed concern Friday that a new factory isn’t expected to start breeding sterile New World screwworm flies for more than a year as a big part of the effort to stop its flesh-eating larvae from threatening…...
Meet Dino, the flukeless dolphin that was found beating the odds in Galveston Bay
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (397+ words) Researchers saw the dolphin swimming without its flukes, or tail fins, in 2022. There have been only four other similarly documented cases around the world. While on a routine observation boat survey in September 2022, researchers with the Galveston Bay Dolphin Research…...
Dino the tailless dolphin is Texas' newest accidental mascot
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (532+ words) Despite Dino's lack of tail flukes, Galveston Bay Foundation's Vanessa Mintzer said she believes the dolphin gets around by "swimming more like a fish than a dolphin." One afternoon in September 2022, researchers from the the Galveston Bay Foundation's Dolphin Research…...
1 million Houston toad eggs released in Central Texas to help the native species make a comeback
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (420+ words) The Houston toad’s natural habitat has shrunk to the point that it no longer includes the species’ namesake, with the toad last seen in the Houston area in the early 1970s. Provided/US Fish and Wildlife Service More than 1 million Houston…...
What it looks like when the Houston Zoo gives a 13-foot anaconda a CT scan
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (182+ words) HOUSTON — The Houston Zoo is elevating animal health care for its senior animals. It's doing that with a brand new CT scanner. One of the first patients to use it -- a 21-year-old green anaconda named... What it looks like when…...
Rare jellyfish that can have 70-foot tentacles wash up on Texas beach
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (304+ words) September 24, 2025 / 12:32 PM EDT / CBS News Multiple massive, rare jellyfish washed up on the Texas coast recently, surprising some beachgoers and feasting on a smaller jellyfish species. Jace Tunnell, the director of community engagement at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Harte…...
Saving the Venus fly trap
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (76+ words) The carnivorous Venus fly trap is native to the Carolinas, but its population is dwindling due to loss of habitat. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with botanist Julie Moore, who has spent much of her life helping to save these remarkable…...