Sometimes wind and solar power produce more electricity than the local grid can handle. Better energy storage and transmission could move extra energy to where it’s needed instead of shutting it off.

If just a third of the wind and solar projects proposed in Texas became reality, it could eliminate the state's remaining coal plants and their emissions.

Devastating wildfires, the Texas freeze and a hurricane that wreaked havoc from Louisiana to New York City topped NOAA’s list of billion-dollar disasters in 2021. (CHECK LIST)

Texas has just experienced its hottest December on record, says the state climatologist.

The 2011 drought in Texas, considered one of the worst ever, was even more widespread and longer lasting than previously thought.

Carrying a pregnancy to term is riskier than having an abortion, especially for non-Hispanic Black women.

In principle, some portion of the shoreline is public land along virtually all US coasts. But these can sometimes overlap with private property interests, creating confusion and conflict.

Disasters highlight the cost of society's love of efficiency. Nature, in contrast, favors resilience. Being more like nature offers benefits for society, especially in the face of the climate crisis.

Runoff from two Houston floods carried human waste onto coral reefs more than 100 miles offshore, research finds.

Runoff from two Houston floods carried human waste onto coral reefs more than 100 miles offshore, research finds.