Vol 3, Issue 23

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggested that Texas leaders should play along with her agency’s sweeping Clean Power Plan, if only to avoid a more rigid carbon-cutting plan imposed by the federal government.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Kevin M. Befus, a Mendenhall postdoctoral scholar with the U.S. Geological Survey who received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Fracking the Neighborhood.

The proposed Vista Ridge water pipeline, which comes up for a vote by the San Antonio City Council on Thursday, has raised questions about the reliability of the groundwater supply from which the pipeline would draw.

A proposed dam and reservoir to be built along Lower Bois d'Arc Creek would supply water for several counties, but it would also mean the end of a way of life for many farmers.

Opponents of the proposed Trans-Texas Pipeline in West Texas are citing the pipeline's projected consumption of 500 million gallons of water in an arid area as a threat to the region's already meager water resources.

Climatologists are studying whether the wild swings in weather patterns in Texas this year are unique or bode a "new normal" resulting from climate change.

A toxin produced by algae has contaminated the marine ecosystem off the coast of California, poisoning marine mammals and leading authorities to advise people against eating crabs.

Thousands of dead fish and turtles washed ashore in Long Island, N.Y., as a result of toxic waters that have been attributed to the runoff from septic systems on the island.

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