Vol 4, Issue 2

A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a request from Texas and other states to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, leaving the climate change rules in place as a legal challenge winds through the courts.

In the crowded race for Senate District 24, the challenge candidates face is standing out to voters across a sprawling district that stretches from Abilene to the northwest suburbs of Austin to tell the difference between them.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Zachary Sugg, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Brilliant Beacons.

The Texas Tribune and KLRU-TV present a candidate forum featuring the Republican candidates for Texas Railroad Commissioner.

A new study compared the water management of four Western states that have faced drought shows that each state has used "conjunctive management," meaning the coordinated use of surface water and groundwater, in different ways and different levels of success.

A study conducted by the University of Texas School of Architecture predicts that without planning and cooperative partnerships, explosive population growth in the Hill Country will endanger the region's "natural, scenic and water resources."

The Texas Stream Team is calling on Texans to join its Monofilament Finders project to collect abandoned fishing line in or along the state's waterways.

The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University has been named a Texas Aquatic Science Certified Site, making it the first informal education center to receive that designation.

With the crisis of contaminated water in Flint, Michigan, Texans are asking about the safety of their own cities' water supplies.

Using data from the Texas Water Development Board's reservoir status tracker, our auto-updating map visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.