Environment & Nature

The Addicks and Barker dams in Houston have been strengthened, but they're still designed to release water if the reservoirs behind them fill to capacity.

Fifty-nine of Texas' 254 counties are now under the disaster declaration.

Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The air was hot and humid in the greenhouse of Ruibal's Plants of Texas. The earthy smell of potting soil and the August heat, made the space feel like a…

From Texas Standard : The nonprofit Circle of Blue recently launched its reporting project “ Water, Texas ,” a series about the challenges Texas faces...

Arthur Uhl III has been ranching for 30 years and routinely has the same lament: "It doesn't rain enough."Uhl, who works on his family's San Angelo-area…

President Donald Trump is ready to roll back a foundational Nixon-era environmental law that he says stifles major infrastructure projects, but that…

From Texas Standard: The fall flounder run is a treasured Texas angling tradition. Southern flounder – the flat fish with both eyes on one side of its...

From Tex as Standard: The pandemic didn’t make Jennymarie Jemison take up gardening. But it did give her a new sense of purpose while tending to her...

When Katherine Leal Unmuth walks her dog along the Santa Fe Trail in Dallas, she pauses to admire the birds and wildflowers in bloom.Seeing spring in…

COVID-19 may have forced Texas schools to cancel in-person classes for the rest of the semester, but that doesn't mean campuses are completely abandoned.…

Texans should expect warmer weather, more wildfires and urban flooding, and increased impact from hurricanes through 2036 thanks to climate change,…