Featured Texas Gulf dead zone caused by excessive rainfall, unlike Louisiana’s (Dylan Baddour – Houston Chronicle, 6/22/2016. Photo by Johnny Hanson, Staff) “Headlines this month bring grim news of a massive ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico. Is this something Houston should be worried about? Yes and no. Most of those headlines refer to a recent study from Louisiana…
This week is Pollinator Week! I’m sure that I don’t have to tell you that pollinating animals, including bees, birds, butterflies, bats, beetles, and others, are vital to our delicate ecosystem, supporting terrestrial wildlife, providing healthy watershed, and more. Monarch butterflies are among the pollinators of special concern in Texas. After several years of declining populations (from about one billion…
Featured Galveston commissioners pull plug on proposed Bolivar wastewater treatment plant (Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle, 6/7/2016) “Galveston County commissioners on Tuesday voted to kill a $13.8 million project to build a sewage treatment plant on the Bolivar Peninsula, blaming changing requirements by federal regulators. The decision disappointed many Bolivar Peninsula residents, who say reliance on septic tanks is creating…