Climate change and the Texas Mid-Coast: The closest examination yet

A new assessment pinpoints threats to a haven for water lovers and wildlife. The National Wildlife Federation report also identifies proactive measures that state and local leadership can pursue to prepare.

Bob Henson

Introducing TCN Digest – themed, explanatory news summaries

In this first installment of Digest: Heat, rain, drought, megadrought and blackouts. In each edition of this new feature we’ll present selective overviews of recent developments with a common theme or close connections.

Bill Dawson

Research shows importance of protecting ocean sediment from trawling

Texas shrimpers and many others around the world use the fishing method. One study’s lowest projection showed trawling can release as much carbon into the water as Canada, the 11th biggest climate polluter, emits to the air.

Melissa Gaskill

Can a solar farm on an old landfill site improve life for a Houston community?

The project in the largely Black Sunnyside neighborhood features intersecting efforts to advance clean energy sources and address residual impacts of long-ago policies linked to environmental racism.

Nushin Huq

UN biodiversity conference to address growing species, ecosystem losses

An overview of the increasing urgency of Earth’s biodiversity crisis. Scientists say habitat losses are accelerating, vertebrate animals’ extinction rate is greater than thought, and two in five plant species are at risk of disappearing.

Melissa Gaskill & Bill Dawson

Paying landowners to store CO2 in soil a promising climate mitigation tool

Natural climate solutions – including land management practices that increase or protect carbon storage – could provide more than a third of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030, research shows.

Melissa Gaskill

Biden sends another strong signal with Texas justice advocates’ appointments

In line with the president’s pledge to address environmental injustice, the administration named three Texans to a new White House advisory council. Another Texan’s ejection from a key advisory post was also a sign of change.

Bill Dawson

Will invigorated climate action hold global warming to 1.5 degrees?

Everything will have to go right to confine atmospheric heating to that desired limit and avoid harsher impacts, climate scientists say. But even coming close to 1.5 C would mean a much better future for life on the planet.

Bob Henson

Q&A: Author Marisol Cortez talks about her award-winning “Luz at Midnight”

The San Antonio writer’s first novel is a South Texas love story, set amid concerns about climate disruption and environmental justice. There’s a blackout-spawning winter storm. And a mysterious trickster canine named Luz.

Fritz Lanham

House bill aims to supercharge electric-vehicle adoption in Texas

The measure would set five EV-boosting goals, including planning a border-to-border charging network. Texas is historically an oil-devoted place, but proponents say EVs increasingly make business and environmental sense here.

John Kent

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