ECONOTES 2013-08-20: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured
- Why A Conservation Group Needs Millions In Less Than A Week To Preserve Prairie (Florian Martin – KUHF News, 8/13/2013)
Deer Park may be known to most as housing dozens of oil refineries. What few know is that it also houses the “platinum standard of prairies.†This may be the most diverse 50-acre patch of prairie left in the greater Houston area. Conservationists are trying to keep Deer Park from being developed into a residential subdivision. They are trying to buy the land from the developer but time is running out.
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Museum-area park to be restored (Sarah Tucker – The Examiner, 8/11/2013)
Bell Park, located at the corner of Banks Street and Montrose Boulevard, will soon be restored. The park’s greenery has been slowly deteriorating since Hurricane Ike in 2008 and the recent drought. Some flower beds are bare, and the park even lost a tree after Ike. Concerned neighborhood residents and volunteers have teamed up with area churches and businesses, as well as the Houston Parks Board, Museum Area Municipal Association, Montrose Management District and the Coalition for the Homeless to help restore the park.
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ - Reasons Unclear For Stark Drop In Number Of Endangered Sea Turtle Nests (Florian Martin – KUHF News, 8/12/2013)
Last year, the number of the nests of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle along the Texas Gulf Coast was the highest on record when 209 nests were discovered. During this year’s nesting season, so-called turtle patrols found only 152, according to the National Park Service. This decline ends a rapid upward trend since 2003.
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EcoNotes
- 19 August
- Plan to Convert Roads to Gravel Begins Despite Pushback (Ian Floyd – The Texas Tribune)
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- Plan to Convert Roads to Gravel Begins Despite Pushback (Ian Floyd – The Texas Tribune)
- 16 August
- StateImpact Texas Hits the Road: Miles and Miles of Texas (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Largest Federally-Owned Wind Farm to Open Near Amarillo (Michael Marks – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - What The Gulf’s Tropical Activity Could Develop Into (David Pitman – KUHF News)
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- StateImpact Texas Hits the Road: Miles and Miles of Texas (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
- 15 August
- Take Me Outdoors Houston Set For Sept. 14 At Discovery Green (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
http://tpwd.texas.gov/ - Hybrids vs. electrics: Cars’ climate-friendliness questioned (Zain Shauk – Fuel Fix)
http://fuelfix.com/ - Researchers Find Inspiration From Sea Creatures (Trey Shaar, KUT – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Judge: EPA may have tried to skirt disclosure law (Frederic J. Frommer – Fuel Fix)
http://fuelfix.com/ - Is the Internet Good for the Climate? (Andrew C. Revkin – Dot Earth, The New York Times)
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ - New Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators (EPA News)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ - As Tank Cars Roll Through, Texas Towns Prepare for Accidents (Dave Fehling – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - StateImpact Texas Hits the Road: Ups and Downs of a Drilling Boom (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
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- Take Me Outdoors Houston Set For Sept. 14 At Discovery Green (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
- 14 August
- Nature center official enjoys seeing kids learn (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Houston Opens New ‘Energy Institute’ To Students, Teachers And Energy Industry (Laura Isensee – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Why This Year’s Gulf Dead Zone Is Twice As Big As Last Year’s (Tom Philpott – Mother Jones)
http://www.motherjones.com/ - Texas fines Freeport company $7.5 million over pollution (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Despite the Drought, Texans Are Still Tubing (Michael Marks – StateImpact)
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- Nature center official enjoys seeing kids learn (Houston Chronicle)
- 13 August
- Why A Conservation Group Needs Millions In Less Than A Week To Preserve Prairie (Florian Martin – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Smog-eating Concrete? (Larry Soward – Air Alliance Houston)
http://airalliancehouston.org/ - StateImpact Texas Hits the Road: Day One (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Texas Wants to See What the Drought Looks Like to You (Michael Marks – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Guadalupe River State Park Cuts Back on Water Service (Elizabeth Koh – The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/ - Chevron Phillips Chemical One Step Closer to Building USGC Petrochemicals Project (Chevron Phillips News)
http://www.cpchem.com/ - Good News On Clean Air To Beat The August Doldrums (Tomas Carbonell – Texas Clean Air Matters)
http://blogs.edf.org/ - Educator How-To: Recycled Plastic Shrinky Dinks (Houston Museum of Natural Science News)
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- Why A Conservation Group Needs Millions In Less Than A Week To Preserve Prairie (Florian Martin – KUHF News)
- 12 August
- Reasons Unclear For Stark Drop In Number Of Endangered Sea Turtle Nests (Florian Martin – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Documenting The Texas Drought Through Social Media (Laurie Johnson – KUHF News)
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- Reasons Unclear For Stark Drop In Number Of Endangered Sea Turtle Nests (Florian Martin – KUHF News)
- 11 August
- Museum-area park to be restored (Sarah Tucker – The Examiner)
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ - Shell & ExxonMobil help the Bayou Preservation Association to improve local watersheds (The Rancher)
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ - The Algae Is Coming, But Its Impact Is Felt Far From Water (NPR News)
http://www.npr.org/ - Butterfly Farmer Edith Smith Keeps it All in the Family at Shady Oak Butterfly Farm (My SA News)
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- Museum-area park to be restored (Sarah Tucker – The Examiner)
- 9 August
- Current Texas drought on track to be second longest (Ron Smith – Southwest Farm Press)
http://southwestfarmpress.com/ - How One Computer Model Makes Texas Surface Water Management Possible (Leslie Lee – Texas Water Resources Institute News)
http://twri.tamu.edu/
- Current Texas drought on track to be second longest (Ron Smith – Southwest Farm Press)
- 8 August
- The Good News and Bad News of Declining Water Demand (Sharlene Leurig – National Geographic)
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/ - Visualization: The Most Expensive Projects in the Texas Water Plan (Ryan Murphy – The Texas Tribune)
http://www.texastribune.org/ - Visualization: The Most Expensive Projects in the Texas Water Plan (Ryan Murphy – The Texas Tribune)
http://www.texastribune.org/ - Whooping Crane Case Could Affect State Water Supplies (Neena Satija – The Texas Tribune)
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- The Good News and Bad News of Declining Water Demand (Sharlene Leurig – National Geographic)
- 3 August
- How San Antonio became the poster child for water conservation-and what you can do to conserve even more (Kathleen Petty – San Antonio Magazine)
http://www.sanantoniomag.com/
- How San Antonio became the poster child for water conservation-and what you can do to conserve even more (Kathleen Petty – San Antonio Magazine)
- 31 July
- New burn-detection-modeling system in development to help identify potential wildfire threats in Texas (AgriLife TODAY)
http://today.agrilife.org/
- New burn-detection-modeling system in development to help identify potential wildfire threats in Texas (AgriLife TODAY)
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