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…
Featured Is a lack of federal funding to blame for Monday’s flooding along Brays Bayou? (Editorial – Houston Chronicle, 5/28/2015) “…Floods are nothing new for the neighborhoods near those muddy waters, but after Tropical Storm Allison the federal government united with the Harris County Flood Control District to improve water retention and flood prevention in the Brays Bayou watershed. The…