March 18, 2019
Wind or water? Hurricane Harvey's most destructive force
On Aug. 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey, a massive Category 4 storm with maximum sustained wind speeds of 215 kilometers per hour, made landfall on …
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June 5, 2018
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
On Aug. 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas coast as an unexpected Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 209 …
May 1, 2018
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Since Oct. 31, 2008, when seismic activity was first detected, hundreds of earthquakes smaller than magnitude 3.4 have peppered a fault zone that …
April 20, 2017
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
An endless patchwork of circular fields surrounds the small West Texas town of Olton. The unnatural shapes and sharp boundaries of the brown and …
September 20, 2016
Everything's bigger in Texas, including the Wink sinkholes
Residents of the neighboring West Texas towns of Wink (population 940) and Kermit (population 6,000) have had decades to get used to a pair of …
August 19, 2016
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas
Everyone said it couldn’t happen. City leaders saw no need for an expensive seawall, trusting local meteorologist Isaac Cline when he claimed …
August 3, 2015
Getting there and getting around Texas' Trans-Pecos
If you’re driving through West Texas on Interstate 10, which runs from Jacksonville, Fla., to Santa Monica, Calif., you’ll pass right through the …
July 6, 2015
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
When Robert T. Hill first arrived in Texas in 1874 at the age of 16, little was known about the geology of the arid, far-western corner of the …
January 5, 2012
Watch out Houston, Ike is coming
As residents of Galveston, Texas, scramble to evacuate before Hurricane Ike makes landfall tonight, most Houston residents have been told to stay …
January 5, 2012
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
"This is our generation’s Sputnik moment," declared President Barack Obama in the 2011 State of the Union address, challenging the nation to …
January 5, 2012
Oil industries escape Ike's wrath
Hurricane Ike’s damage to Gulf Coast oil industries was not as bad as authorities had feared, the Department of Energy stated in a report …
January 5, 2012
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
A saltwater disposal well, a part of the natural gas production process, may have been responsible for triggering a series of minor earthquakes …
January 5, 2012
Houston avoids worst of Ike; gas prices jump
Hurricane Ike roared into southeastern Texas early Saturday morning as a strong Category-2 storm, with 170 kilometer-per-hour (110 mph) winds. …
January 5, 2012
Highlights of 2010: Offshore wind in Texas and the curious case of Massachusetts
Humans have harnessed wind energy throughout history for milling, pumping and transportation — in a way you could say it’s the “original” form of …