The Wendee Holtcamp Report

For a whole month, one writer practiced a kind of abstinence so she could better understand her own complicity in our throwaway culture. It wasn’t easy. A few days into a vow of shopping celibacy, I visit a Hallmark store with my kids. The 75-percent-off rack draws me in. I’ve forgotten that I’m sup

A toxic molecule found in pond scum may trigger neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Parkinson’s. Could a group of scientists, led by a botanist, hold the key to a cure? Rudyard Kipling called it “Hell’s Half Acre,” a geothermal wonderland where people could fall through the Earth’s thin crust

Coastal marshes, home to a stunning array of wildlife, have been drained, dredged and carved up, but now an unlikely team is working to reverse the decline. The moon is full, the night is warm, and I’m sitting in the high seat of an airboat, like a queen on a wetland wildlife safari. I feel like [..

Originally published at Miller-McCune.com North Texas, the fastest-growing region in the fastest-growing state in the nation, has a growing demand for water. While the rest of the U.S. is tearing down decaying dams, Texas wants some dam water. When Richard Donovan saw the Lufkin Daily News on Dec. 1

Fine blue dots highlight the arrival of trans-Gulf migrant birds on the upper Texas Coast. Once the birds arrive, they begin to land, so there are fewer over land than over the Gulf. Credit: NOAA, a taxpayer-supported service of the U.S. government Doppler radar helped save the Texas forests where m

When fertilizer-laden runoff from the Mississippi River empties into the gulf, algae thrives — and marine animals die. I’m in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico on a modified shrimp boat, the R/V Sabine Lake, and a trawl net’s worth of ocean catch has just been unceremoniously dumped on board. A pile

Could major metropolitan areas get by without building any more major freeways — ever? That is the conclusion of a new study by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). Not only that, they found that under the “No More Freeway” scenario, employment and housing opportuniti

Desert bighorn sheep are being restored to the mountains of West Texas. Solstice Moon and Sunrise, Elephant Mountain WMA, Texas Against a magenta sunrise, the winter solstice moon — full and white — sinks into the western horizon. Several dozen folks stand bundled up at the base of Elephant Mountain