Featured Rice survey: 58% in Houston agree with pope that warming’s mainly man-made (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News) “Pope Francis’ call to moral action against climate change this week will find one perhaps surprising group already in growing agreement with his key point that ‘the bulk of global warming’ is being caused by people’s use of fossil fuels and…
Featured Work underway to grow plants, bring Lake Livingston’s fishery back to life (Shannon Tompkins – Houston Chronicle, 6/10/2015) “The future of Lake Livingston’s largemouth bass, crappie, sunfish and the dozens of other aquatic wildlife species dependant on healthy, robust shallow-water habitat may be brighter because of what’s growing in almost two-dozen 5-foot-by-16-foot tanks scattered on school campuses in towns…
Featured Houston’s Population Growth Could Mean An Increase In Extreme Heat (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 6/8/2015) “Our story starts not in Houston but in Phoenix. It’s where the American Meteorological Society held its annual meeting earlier this year. Public health researcher Kathryn Conlon told an audience about a project funded by NASA that looked at Houston. Conlon found…