Web tool lets anyone see effects of climate change at home ( Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle, 8/8/2016) A new web tool allows anyone to find out how climate change will affect the city where they live. Climate Explorer, the new tool released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week, offers downloadable maps, graphs, and tables of projected…
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…
Featured Harris County warns of possible contaminated drinking water; more testing set (Kim McGuire – Houston Chronicle, 7/6/2016) “Harris County Public Health officials have warned a group of people who live near a Channelview Superfund site not to drink their tap water after dioxins were possibly detected in some private wells. County officials, however, acknowledged that a laboratory error requires…