A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.

A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem, but in just two counties so far.

Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

Fear and reticence spread in Fort Worth as Sally Mann’s nude photos of her children were held as police evidence.

These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

The Richardsons are among the lucky in Kerr County, at the epicenter of “flash flood alley,” who narrowly survived the ...

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Chaney Hill is an instructor of English and Environmental Studies, a writer, and an academic at Rice University in Houston. She grew up in the Hill Country just southwest of Kerrville. These floods do ...