... Texas is moving toward private, for-profit water sales. The water will be "mined" from aquifers that are disappearing fast. No word on what the private suppliers, including corporate raider T. Boone Pickens, will do once the aquifers run dry. ... Aquifers around the world are being...
Motiva Enterprises announced early Wednesday that it had started a controlled shutdown of its major refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, because of flooding. The company said the refinery would be restarted when the floodwaters receded. 6:03 a.m.: Dire situation in Port Arthur CBS Beaumont affil...
Trump also said he would change how public health agencies respond to disasters, noting flooding in North Carolina last year and the more recent wildfires in California. “We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is...
it is the largest mall in Texas and the seventh largest mall in the United States. Like all large cities, Houston is home to numerous tourist attractions including the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Houston Zoo, the Children's Museum of Houston, the Space Center Houston, the Holocaust...
the U.S. will be determined in part by high pressure off to the east and a trough off to the west," she said. "If Lee ends up farther west, we could have stronger winds, heavier rain, larger swells and coastal flooding. If it slides more east, the impacts would be less intense....
In 2019, the state passeda law banning all abortions after six weeks, but it was struck down by the Iowa Supreme Court. The status of that law won't change even though Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land. Kansas Kansas bans abortions after 22 weeks and requires patients to...
and down here in the bowels of the canyon, its diminishment is everywhere in evidence. In many places, the riverbanks wear a tutu of tamarisk trees along their edge. They have been able to dress up, now that the river, constrained from major flooding, no longer rips their clothes off. ...
discussed a study by Middlebury and Georgia Tech that showed a 2.3 percent increase in births. They also see people flooding from abortion-banning states to other states for abortions. These options are not available to everyone. In a large state like Texas, for example, where births increased...
Still visible today is part of the metal supporting structure for the side wheel above the water. The ship is also known as the Richmond. We traveled further north looking for signs of the G.A. Kohler which is sometimes visible above the surfline. The Kohler went aground in a storm in ...
Halfway through the next month, it's only rained one time since. WTaF? Click to expand... Global warming will both increase drought severity and flooding. We’ve gone from drought conditions at the beginning of spring to record spring rains and back to drought in half a year. I’m su...