Local beekeepers are also dealing with the mysterious die-offs of large numbers of honeybees in hives, called colony collapse disorder.
Ranchers in Starr County are trying to counter the effects of the drought on their herd.
Austin’s Skyonic Corp. is building a new plant that will turn carbon dioxide into solids it can sell commercially.
The fight to kill off invasive plant species ligustrum are in full gear in Austin and other Texas locales, but experts say the effort cannot succeed without legislation banning the species on private land.
South Austin residents are pleased with the city curbside organics collection pilot, but they’ve raised questions about what can be recycled with it.
The proposed legislation is designed to help shark conversation, now threatened by the worldwide demand for shark fin soup.
Christmas tree farmers have dealt with a drought that hampered the growing season then cold and wet weather that deterred buyers.
Big Spring and Brownwood are planning to reuse wastewater as they contemplate a drier future.
The City of Austin is working toward regulating private wells, which are becoming more popular in wealthier neighborhoods.
A perennial debate on Galveston: balancing the needs of coastal-dwelling Texans with the threat of a rising ocean and the coastal destruction accompanying it.
While devastating cattle diseases still run rampant in many parts of the world, Texas hasn’t had a serious disease outbreak in decades, but is hasn’t been easy, especially with budget cuts to the Texas Animal Health Commission.
A report by UT’s Energy Institute on the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing has drawn attention for both its findings and its rhetoric.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s ShareLunker program is aiming to produce the world’s largest bass.
Texas has more dams than any other state, but it bucks the national trend of removing ones that might pose a hazard or improve fishery conditions.
This year’s drought has been rough on trees throughout Texas, with vigilance necessary to keep some species healthy.
Six Texas species are endangered-species candidates, putting them toward the end of a long line of plants and animals awaiting a final ruling on their status.
Ken Landon, who runs the International Water Lily Collection in bone-dry San Angelo, looks more like a 62-year-old rock star than the Indiana Jones of horticulture.
Wildlife biologists have rescued nearly 3,000 sharpnose and smalleye shiners from the Brazos River in a bid to save the fish from extinction during the Central Texas drought.
The wildfires of the past week, feeding on high winds and low humidity, destroyed more than 1,500 homes in Central Texas, where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.
Like super agent Jason Bourne, bacterial cells possess the capacity to go off the grid, hiding from antibiotics until danger has passed and then reemerging to attack our immune system, according to scientists at Texas A&M and Brown universities.
