The Houston-Galveston area has 16,000 miles of streams and shoreline providing a network of valuable habitat and ecosystem services for the region, connecting freshwater streams to productive coastal estuaries and connecting us to nature and to each other. Clean water is a foundation for our regional economy, contributing $4 billion annually through ecotourism, oyster harvesting, and commercial fishing. However, more…
Featured 1.  Hot-weather records keep being set – and more look to be in the making ( Bill Davidson – Texas Climate News, 24/7/2016) “With the National Weather Service warning of ‘dangerous heat and humidity’ across a huge swath of the country this weekend and for several days to come – including some heat-index readings over 100 degrees from the…
This week we welcome Discovery Green as a new member of the CEC. Â www.discoverygreen.com A mere 15 years ago, the site of Discovery Green, on the east side of downtown Houston, consisted of two barren parking lots adjacent to the George R. Brown Convention Center, plus a small strip of greenery known as the Houston Center Gardens. Today, Discovery…