Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, increase global temperatures. Rising temperatures, in turn, cause moisture to evaporate at a faster rate. This ...

The report claims Texas will be the most populated state in the U.S. by midcentury largely due to in-migration from other ...

Shortly after Hurricane Ike made landfall in Galveston in September 2008, economist Patrick Jankowski was in his front yard with a saw, listening to NPR on a transistor radio while he cleared branches ...

Space was transforming the region’s identity, oil was booming, the city’s population was nearing 1 million residents and Houston’s physical boundaries were expanding to accommodate all the growing it ...