State Government

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Cure for Catastrophe.

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

The state has won in a controversial legal battle over the right of a navigation district to issue a lease that would have ceded rights to a large portion of oyster reefs in Galveston Bay to a single entity.

Blooms of algae that have been clogging Florida’s St. Lucie estuary are symptomatic of a larger problem of systems out of balance around the world, according to scientists.

The H2O4TEXAS Water Tour will come to Corpus Christi on July 18 as part of a series designed to educate local stakeholders about Texas’ State Water Plan.

The scheduled purchase of a large ranch in Hudspeth County by El Paso Water Utilities has stirred concerns about long-term plans by the utility to export more water from the area.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Greg Story, a hydrometeorologist at the National Weather Service West Gulf River Forecast Center.

Gravel-bed river floodplains help to sustain biodiversity in the American West, providing nutrients for growth and linking otherwise isolated populations.

A new report from the House Research Organization, the research arm of the Texas House, takes a close look at aquifer storage and recovery as a way to meet the state’s future water needs.