Brian Kirkpatrick
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TPR
Governor Greg Abbott is calling for the San Antonio electricity market to be opened up to private for-profit power companies. CPS Energy is the largest municipally owned electricity provider in the nation, and each year contributes about half a billion dollars to the city’s general fund. CPS Energy joins us to explain what Abbott’s proposal could mean for your power bill and for funding city programs.
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Landowners and activists worry about impact to the environment around SpaceX's complex. -
The curious-looking beans travel thousands of miles on the ocean currents. -
Less than a month after historic flooding hit a wide swath of Texas, residents in the rural Zavala County town of Crystal City are working together to salvage what they can — and piece their lives back together, one day at a time. -
At least eight people died in Japan as heavy rains flooded roads and disrupted traffic while firefighters from Britain to France and Croatia struggled to contain blazes in Europe's fifth heatwave this summer -
The Trump administration’s plans for an unprecedented expansion of border-policing infrastructure in Big Bend have also triggered an ambitious scientific initiative. The Big Bend Borderlands BioBlitz aims to document the biodiversity here before it’s damaged or destroyed. -
If you want the kids to connect with nature, but the triple-digit temperatures are making you balk, here are some indoor options you might not know about. -
Over just the last 50 years, humanity as taken more out of the earth than in all the rest of human history combined. The wounds left behind by this extraction — mines, oil wells, quarries, poisoned rivers, hollowed-out industrial towns — now form the true map of our civilization and our age. What can we learn by confronting these ruins? -
A plume of Saharan dust covering much of the gulf will blow over South Texas Wednesday night. -
As record high temperatures continue to rise around the globe this summer, many communities are faced with a common challenge: how to stay safe from extreme heat.In the U.S., extreme heat has claimed more than 21,000 lives since 1999. UT San Antonio researchers are working to better understand extreme heat’s impact and to develop strategies to protect the most vulnerable residents. -
Jacob's Well in Wimberley was flowing rapidly for a short time after July's heavy rainfall. Now, the waters are receding again.
