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The secret to regenerative life lies not in an ancient scroll or lost text, but could instead be found in a tiny jellyfish on the ocean floor, no bigger than an ant. The ...

A Texas couple missed out on over $100 million after they decided to make their home a nature preserve instead of expanding their property. Ronnie and Terry Urbanczyk purchased their ranch and 245 ...

There are nearly 8 million people living in North Texas. So this is an urban area, although we're all familiar with the occasional coyote wandering through. But also living among us are bobcats, river ...

As Texas communities face more frequent flooding, rapid development and aging stormwater systems, a new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service resource provides help to local governments in planning ...

Twenty-five miles southeast of Dallas, a boardwalk meanders over a lush, sprawling wetland. Patches of Southern cattail, their velvety hotdog-on-a-stick seedpods swaying in the breeze, mix with plants ...

Not long ago, on a quiet beach near where the Colorado River opens into the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast, I scooped up spiral-shaped lightning whelks and lettered olive shells so shiny they ...

AUSTIN Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), through the Texas Nature Trackers program, invites all Texans to participate April 26-29 in a friendly competition between 15 Texas metropolitan ...

After being a part of Texas Children in Nature Network’s, or TCiNN’s San Antonio Chapter and then moving to Kerrville, Helen Holdsworth said she wanted to launch a Hill Country Chapter.

Tourists at two Texas nature reserves have been warned of unhealthy air quality levels on Thursday, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). An air-quality map from the EPA's ...

As Texas communities face more frequent flooding, rapid development and aging stormwater systems, a new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service resource provides help to local governments in planning ...