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  • 21 hours ago | kut.org | Mose Buchele

    Starting Friday, dust that has travelled all the way from North Africa will begin obscuring the skies in Central Texas. The annual phenomenon, known as a Saharan dust plume, can decrease visibility and worsen air quality. "Every summer, starting around early June, we'll see storms in the Saharan Desert kick up dust and bring that dust across the Atlantic,” Anton Cox, air quality program manager at the Capital Area Council of Governments, said.

  • 1 day ago | texasstandard.org | Travis Bubenik |Mose Buchele |Brad Burt |Lucio Vasquez

    After 140 days at the Capitol in Austin, the Texas Legislature has just wrapped up its 89th session. This year, state lawmakers passed over 1,200 bills. Among them were several important pieces of legislation focused on energy and the environment. Barring a veto from Gov. Greg Abbott, these will soon become law in Texas. Here’s a breakdown of some of those measures. Abbott opened this year’s legislative session by naming water as one of his top priorities.

  • 3 days ago | kut.org | Mose Buchele

    A string of storms last week brought flooding, dangerous winds and damaging hail to Austin. They also brought much needed rain. While the region remains deep in drought, the precipitation resulted in something the city has not seen in almost a year: a month of above-average rainfall. Meteorologists say that late spring rainfall will impact temperatures and humidity going into the summer.

  • 1 week ago | kut.org | Mose Buchele

    John Hart Asher is the host of the PBS show Central Texas Gardener. So it’s on brand that he was gardening in his East Austin backyard when the big storm came in on Wednesday. “If the rain's coming, I try to work my plants in,” said Asher, who ended up getting much more than rain. “I looked over my shoulder and I noticed this massive blue, dark blue shelf [of clouds],” he said.

  • 1 week ago | kut.org | Mose Buchele

    Read this story in EnglishHace un tiempo, entre las sesiones de grabación en el estudio de música de KUTX, el ingeniero de sonido Jake Perlman sacó a colación algo que no tiene nada que ver con el rock and roll: su factura del gas. Perlman dijo que los primeros meses del año pagó casi el doble de lo que había pagado durante los mismos meses el año anterior, a pesar de, a veces, usar menos gas. “No entendía por qué la factura del gas era tan alta de repente”, dijo.

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