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A bipartisan bill in Washington proposing an expansion of Big Bend National Park in West Texas unanimously cleared a recent U ...

The largest national park in Texas could get even bigger. A bipartisan bill proposing an expansion of the Big Bend National ...

St Marks National Wildlife Refuge is approximately 25 miles south of Tallahassee, Florida. St Marks National Wildlife ...

It’s expected to be a major hurricane in the eastern Gulf today with landfall in the Florida Big Bend tonight with a life-threatening storm surge. Storm surge could be as high as 4 to 7 feet in ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Before we leave our discussion of the joys of summer, tribute should be paid to that miracle of climatic adaptation, the Sonoran Desert Stick Lizard. The little stretch of desert where I live is ...

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As deeper tropical moisture brings increasing rain chances to southeast Texas this week, no tropical development is expected. There is an area that the NHC is monitoring for a high risk for ...