3+ week, 3+ day ago   (415+ words) Across Texas, lakes and reservoirs have seen the benefits of the heavy rains that drenched the state this spring and summer. Outside of San Antonio, beloved Canyon Lake is completely full. In the Coastal Bend, Lake Corpus Christi is nearly…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (978+ words) Houston quietly ended a recycling program for businesses late last year, leaving organizations that chose to recycle with one less way to do so in a city that already recycles less of its waste than other major Texas cities. Some…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1784+ words) Jackie Chesnutt props up a sign next to a leaking oil well operated by Core Petro on her property near Knickerbocker. Jackie Chesnutt poses for a portrait on her property in Tom Green County. She has documented pollution from oil…...

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…...

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…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (920+ words) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins watched sterile flies being released to fight the New World screwworm on Thursday and visited the Texas ranch where one of the first cases of the pest was detected. The screwworm could devastate the nation’s cattle…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1012+ words) State officials and researchers warned Texas lawmakers in May that New World screwworm was advancing toward the state and could carry a billion-dollar economic toll. Less than a month before New World screwworm was confirmed in Texas for the first…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (807+ words) La Pryor, Texas ― Following the first confirmation of screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, on a U.S. farm in decades, federal and state officials have fanned out in South Texas, where a calf was found infested. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on…...

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…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (331+ words) La Pryor/Mexico City - A second case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite was confirmed in Texas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, emerging just miles from where the first U.S. detection in decades was reported this week. The new case…...