There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the ...

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky ...

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.

The new date comes after Ken Paxton took over the case that could lead to the nation's first execution based on the contested ...

Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

If approved, opponents warn that a massive new utility project could disrupt toxic sediment, and more, in Lake ...

A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem, but in just two counties so far.

The first data center for a $500-billion artificial intelligence project arrives in small-town Texas, alongside a potentially ...

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These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.

Aditya Panangat is a Texas-based machine learning researcher focused on the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.