Sponsored
April 1, 2024
A Global Impact
Texas Tech’s Katharine Hayhoe continues to break new ground and lead the way in climate science.
Global warming
Art
April 12, 2018
Timothy Morton Is Houston’s Own Catastrophe Guru
Morton, renowned eco-philosopher and co-curator of a new art exhibit at Ballroom Marfa, sees global warming as a new beginning, not an end.
Energy
May 1, 2012
Do Wind Farms Cause Global Warming?
A new study looking at West Texas wind farms found that local air temperatures rose 0.72 degrees Celsius. Is this something to worry about?
Energy
November 2, 2011
Should Everyone Have Air Conditioning?
As the state gets hotter, one former Midland resident thinks air conditioning should be required by the city building code.
Politics & Policy
August 18, 2011
The Perry campaign: Where is the message discipline?
Suggesting that the head of the Federal Reserve’s policies border on treason one day. Questioning global warming the next. Rick Perry is not on his game. The campaign appears to be shoot-from-the-hip. (I’m told that he recanted his stance on HPV without telling anyone what he planned to do.) Why
Green Guinea Pig
February 1, 2008
The New Conservative
Can Jim Atkinson change the world?
Feature
February 1, 2008
Bruce McCarl
Al Gore may be the public face of climate change, but all around the world, researchers are toiling in semi-obscurity to deepen our understanding of the challenge it poses. One of these is McCarl, a Texas A&M University professor who has spent the past twenty years studying the potential effects
Energy
January 1, 2007
Power Play
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on researching the energy industry and writing about coal plants.
Energy
January 1, 2007
Coal Hard Facts
Facing an energy crisis, Texas is on the verge of a solution that will belch about five billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the next forty years. Breathe deeply—while you still can.
Behind the Lines
August 31, 1998
Scorched Earth
This summer’s hot topic? Weather.