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Houston Environmental News Update June 22, 2016

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…

Houston Environmental News Update June 15, 2016

Happy Sea Turtle Week! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Program protects and conserves six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters, ranging from the smallest (Kemp’s ridley) to the largest (leatherback). This photo above is of a loggerhead turtle that was visiting Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, which is a coral reef system off the Texas Coast.