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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 li
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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
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LIMÓN, COSTA RICA — I left Earth University last Tuesday morning and headed to the Selva Bananito Ecolodge where I would be staying next. Jürgen Stein, along with his sister, Sofia, own the ecolodge, which has received the highest sustainability rating from the Costa Rican Tourism Board, 5 leafs. Al
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For the past several days, I have been at Earth University, or in Spanish Universidad Earth, for the Planet, People, Peace 3rd International conference on sustainable ecotourism, hosted by CANAECO — the Costa Rican National Chamber of Ecotourism. Earth is a 4-year university focused on teaching stud
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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
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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 bo
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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
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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
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Although the planet as a whole has been warming — the past decade was the warmest since instrumental records began in the 19th century — natural climate variability still steals the show from time to time, causing some r
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A conservation-minded Texas mom assesses her contribution to climate change, one meal at a time.
Three years ago, I stood atop the Franklin Mountains at dusk, gazing over El Paso, Texas and gritty Ciudad Juárez, its third-world neighbor south of the border. I had just taken a gondola ride up the mou
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