In 2011, the largest wildfire in state history burned for 36 days in Bastrop, Texas — our host Aurora Berry’s hometown. Texas’ record-setting drought and high winds intensified the fire’s effects on the community. As the global average temperature rises, intensifying droughts will continue to put humans at risk of major disasters, but scientists remain hopeful.
In a two-year period, two separate hundred-year floods hit the Onion Creek and Dove Springs neighborhoods in Austin. The floods displaced...
In January 2021, Texas was hit with a historic winter storm that overloaded the Texas power grid and left thousands without electricity...
Hurricane Harvey devastated towns along the Gulf Coast in August 2017. And Texas’ biggest city, Houston, is especially vulnerable to...
The Ogallala Aquifer is the biggest aquifer in North America, and it accounts for more than 30 percent of all agriculture in the United...
Everything’s bigger in Texas … including the natural disasters. Texans face fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts, freezes, tornadoes and...
