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June 22, 2021 The city of Fort Worth is betting that homeless animals will want to sit and stay – but not for too long – at a new shelter that’s designed to promote animal welfare while treading ...
April 5, 2016 Walter Hornaday, the cofounder of the Dallas-based Breeze Energy, now makes a living selling wind power to customers across Texas but he got his start in the industry on the production ...
July 17, 2020 The Texas Poor People’s Campaign is putting down roots - literally - in a fast-growing North Texas town with a turbulent past. This summer, members of the Dallas chapter of the DC-based ...
It was the first time in 12 years that Arlington opened new land for fracking. TotalEnergies will drill 10 new gas wells that are two-tenths of a mile from a daycare center amid an uptick in Barnett ...
Dec. 10, 2019 You may have heard the rumors running through the North Texas grapevine: “The Lake Lewisville dam is about to fail.” Well, no. “A sand boil is eroding the dam from within.” Not really.
For the 2016-2017 contest, a Frisco team, comprised of students Wail Aldahni, Abigail Love, Kylie Mannan, Avery Sinnathamby and Arvind Subramanian pictured with their teacher Kimberly Church, won the ...
Dec. 31, 2013One glance through the Dallas Trekkers’ Facebook page posts and you’ll quickly discover this group gets around. Since launching in 1979, the 34-year-old walking club has racked up the ...
Forest therapist Laurence Turcios teaches naturalists how to experience nature through emotions and senses.
Fireflies love warm, humid areas. They thrive in forests, fields and marshes near lakes, rivers, ponds, streams and vernal pools. They spend most of their lives living low to the ground in leaf litter ...
Sept. 23, 2022 If you live in North Texas and you’re using iNaturalist, chances are it’s because of Sam Kieschnick. A Fort Worth-based urban wildlife biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, ...
April 18, 2025 In the heart of North Texas, wildflowers bloom with more than beauty — they bloom with purpose. As spring’s first colors stretch across the landscape, a quiet transformation takes place ...
Louis Dorfman says wild animals need emotional bonds with humans to thrive in captivity.