Posted: 11:49 AM Texans still recovering from the devastating 2011 drought have an online tool for information on water supplies and disaster assistance.

Posted: 9:13 AM By a vote of 141 to 4, the Texas House today gave final approval to legislation which more than doubles the state’s investment in water conservation and creates a new water infrastructure fund to provide state financing to reservoir, pipeline and conservation projects. Once the Senate approves the conference report to HB 4, the bill will finally head to the Governor’s desk.

Posted: 9:11 AM Texas ties for last place in working to protect state ocean waters, according to a report released today by Environment Texas, the Marine Conservation Institute and Mission Blue. The SeaStates report is the first national ranking of coastal states’ efforts to protect their ocean waters with ‘no-take’ Marine Protected Areas, the best tool to help oceans thrive.

Posted: 9:06 AM The fate of Earth’s climate hangs on UN climate negotiations taking place in Bonn this week to shape a global climate change agreement to be adopted by 2015 that would take effect in 2020.

Updated: 9:11 AM First amphibian to officially be declared extinct has been rediscovered in Israel.

Posted: 11:28 AM COLLEGE STATION, May 14, 2013 — The cause of earthquakes is known: tectonic plates scraping and clashing against each other. Scientists seeking a deeper understanding of the underlying causes of that plate movement turn to Texas A&M University professor Wolfgang Bangerth, a widely respected expert in computational mathematics and mathematical modeling.

Updated: 2:40 PM HOUSTON – A federal court has rejected, for the second time, an attempt by ExxonMobil Corporation and two subsidiaries to get rid of a lawsuit filed against them by Sierra Club and Environment Texas. The lawsuit alleges thousands of violations of the Clean Air Act at the nation’s largest oil refinery and chemical plant complex, located in Baytown, Texas.

Posted: 9:38 AM COLLEGE STATION, April 30, 2013 — In the mind of Texas A&M University physicist Peter McIntyre, two of America's most pressing energy challenges -- what to do with radiotoxic spent nuclear fuel and dwindling energy resources -- can be solved in one scientific swipe.

Posted: 9:38 AM West Fertilizer Co.’s problems complying with Texas environmental rules go back decades, state records show.

Posted: 9:49 AM WASHINGTON -- The fertilizer plant explosion that leveled homes and killed at least 14 people last week in West, Texas, demonstrates the need for tougher chemical security laws, some Democrats say. Whether such proposals will have any legs on Capitol Hill remains uncertain.

Posted: 10:14 AM Texas summers are so hot that in many West Texas reservoirs, more water evaporates than gets used by people. In 2011, more water evaporated out of Lakes Travis and Buchanan in Central Texas than was used by their largest city customer, Austin.

Posted: 11:21 AM Texans can now find increased recycling opportunities for their old televisions by going to www.TexasRecyclesTVs.org.

Posted: 11:19 AM The Texas Environmental Excellence Awards honor individuals, organizations, and businesses that protect our state’s human and natural resources while ensuring clean air, clean water, and the safe management of waste.

Posted: 11:16 AM AUSTIN - Strategies to conserve water in agriculture, landscaping and energy production could save 500 billion gallons of water per year in 2020, according to a new Environment Texas Research and Policy Center report. The report comes a week after a federal judge ordered the state of Texas to keep more water in the Guadalupe River to support endangered whooping cranes and as the Legislature considers funding a fifty year water plan.

Posted: 11:15 AM On Tuesday April 16th, the Senate Natural Resources committee voted 6-3 in favor of legislation to weaken the rights of Texans to protect their communities by challenging the permits of polluters.

Updated: 10:07 AM The iconic "Don't Mess with Texas" campaign has a new look with red, white and blue specially designed trash cans.

Posted: 9:09 AM The Interior Department will issue revised rules on the use of hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and gas on public lands, officials said Friday.

Posted: 9:07 AM GENEVA (AP) — More than 140 nations adopted the first legally binding international treaty on Saturday aimed at reducing mercury emissions, after four years of negotiations on ways to set limits on the use of a highly toxic metal.

Posted: 3:55 PM Global warming was hot news this year, literally. Perhaps the most unavoidable climate story of 2012 was the warmth that gripped much of the United States, and to a lesser degree, the planet, throughout the entire year.

Posted: 3:49 PM DUBLIN — Over the last three years, with its economy in tatters, Ireland embraced a novel strategy to help reduce its staggering deficit: charging households and businesses for the environmental damage they cause

Posted: 2:26 PM When researchers sent plants to the International Space Station in 2010, the flora wasn't meant to be decorative. Instead, the seeds of these small, white flowers—called Arabidopsis thaliana—were the subject of an experiment to study how plant roots developed in a weightless environment.

Posted: 2:26 PM A hundred years ago, two teams of explorers set out to be the first people ever to reach the South Pole. The race between Roald Amundsen of Norway and Robert Falcon Scott of Britain became the stuff of triumph, tragedy, and legend.

Updated: 11:43 AM An unwanted, sticky glaze showing up in several parts of Texas has been blamed on recent rains and what bugs leave behind.

Updated: 4:32 PM A Texas judge has ruled the atmosphere and the air must be protected for public use just like water.

Posted: 11:42 AM England could spice up its food production by growing more herbs and spices, says a report looking at the nation's future food security.