Environment & Nature

The city of Dallas approved a $450,000 contract Tuesday to remove Shingle Mountain in southeast Dallas. The pile of roofing material has been sitting next to residential property for more than two years.

Dallas residents and activists brought the mountain, or part of it, to Dallas City Hall Monday to advocate for the removal of the so-called Shingle Mountain. The city council is scheduled to vote on a contractor bid on Tuesday.

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…

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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…

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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…