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The organic waste on dairy farms and in landfills can yield a treasured resource – methane, main component of natural gas. David Barer examines the subject for Texas Climate News and Reporting Texas.
Features October 21, 2012
The biologist answered TCN's questions about the outbreak of West Nile virus in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, explaining what scientists know – and have yet to learn – about links between climate and the mosquito-borne disease.
Features TCN Interview August 21, 2012
Still recovering from Hurricane Ike, the island city faces issues common along Texas' perennially storm-threatened coast. Residents and officials confront interrelated natural hazards in deciding where building occurs.
Features August 6, 2012
Depletion of Ogallala groundwater heralds reduced irrigation. Coupled with higher projected temperatures, this will force many farmers to turn to dryland agiculture with drought-tolerant crops, one researcher predicts.
Features June 29, 2012
Nielsen-Gammon talked with TCN about global warming's impacts on Texas, his support for "cheap, affordable alternative energy" and worries about climate-change skepticism, the state's water-supply challenges and the summer weather outlook.
Features TCN Interview June 15, 2012
New federal regulations will require new coal plants to capture CO2 emissions. Will carbon-capture techniques prove to be commercially viable? Various efforts in Texas may help answer that question.
Features May 15, 2012
Climate change is projected to bring hotter, drier conditions to the West Texas city, where plans to provide enough water focus on greater conservation, diversifying resources and more water reuse. Writer Michael Haederle reports for TCN.
Features February 17, 2012
A court fight over the nation's most famous endangered species could foreshadow more such battles as climate change yields a hotter, drier Texas while water demand grows. Michael Berryhill reports for TCN.
Features January 19, 2012
Besides recovery from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, they include reversal of long-term habitat loss, nutrient over-enrichment, overuse, coastal development's impacts and climate effects, one oceanographer told attendees. A report by Austin writer Melissa Gaskill.
Features December 23, 2011
The recommendations from Rice University researchers include a Houston Ship Channel floodgate, new levees, a wetlands recreation area to buffer against storm surges and a sharply limited focus for new Galveston development.
Features November 16, 2011
With sustainably-minded design features, the facility will provide assorted amenities near the city's Arts District. Dallas-based journalist Barbara Kessler details the project in an article and a video report.
Features October 16, 2011
Without costly, multiple actions, Texas won't have enough water to meet the needs of residents, businesses and agriculture during a serious drought, the agency warns in the draft of its 2012 State Water Plan.
Features September 29, 2011
Running for president, he alleged that many climate scientists fudge data to get funding. But Texas researchers are pushing back. And a former Perry appointee said his attitude toward climate science is "conveniently dismissive."
Features August 17, 2011
Update: Texas' environmental commissioners rejected young petitioners' request for an emission-cutting plan. The petitioners then asked a state district court to reverse the TCEQ decision.
Features June 15, 2011
Sustainability may not be a universally embraced concept in Texas, but universities in the state are increasingly adopting it in their campus operations. Taking note, a national report card has been awarding higher grades.
Features May 16, 2011
Texas officials fighting climate regulations are "incredibly misinformed" about climate science and speaking for "very powerful special interests," he says. History, he predicts, won't "treat them kindly."
Features TCN Interview March 29, 2011
Dessler was chosen last month to be one of the first group of Google Science Communication Fellows, who will be pioneering new methods for communicating scientific findings about climate change.
Features TCN Interview March 7, 2011
Even if proposals that almost passed in 2009 get another shot, they will compete for lawmakers' attention with challenging issues such as a huge budget shortfall and congressional redistricting.
Features January 11, 2011
The two candidates clash on climate science and coal's future role in Texas. Perry has promoted his vision of a "diverse" set of energy sources, while White has pushed energy efficiency and renewables.
Features November 1, 2010
A decade ago, Texas set the first energy-saving target for electric power producers. But a national study says other states have surged ahead recently with new actions aimed at greater efficiency.
Features October 20, 2010
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