19
Apr
Texas blast echoes worst industrial accident in U.S. history
Chemical fertilizer has been at the center of explosions both in 2013 and 1947.
19
Apr
Texas blast echoes worst industrial accident in U.S. history
Chemical fertilizer has been at the center of explosions both in 2013 and 1947.
What causes fertilizer explosions?
Extremely flammable nature of fertilizer ingredient ammonium nitrate is what precipitated the massive fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.
29
Mar
Texas Senate passes ban on gas euthanasia for shelter pets
16 states have banned the use of carbon monoxide to euthanize cats and dogs.
15
Feb
16
Aug
West Nile virus kills 17 in Texas, sickens hundreds
Throughout the state 465 people have been sickened since January, putting it on track to have the most cases since the disease emerged a decade ago.
13
Apr
4 feet of hail falls on West Texas
A photo of chest-deep hail is generating plenty of skepticism online, but according to weather experts and local witnesses, it’s all too real.
11
Apr
Unexplained daytime fireball scorches Texas sky
Scientists are researching why fireballs from space experience a peak during springtime.
05
Apr
How did tornadoes in Texas toss 18-wheelers?
Tornadoes have an easier time flipping trucks when they’re empty, resulting in a weight imbalance between each end of the truck.
15
Mar
Thieves steal 5,000 honeybees from Houston restaurant
Talk about your daring robberies. Unidentified thieves backed their pickup truck to Haven Restaurant in Houston, Tex., before dawn on Saturday and took off with a three-foot-high, 500-pound beehive.
18
Jan
Texas works to end rabies with aerial vaccine drops
Airplanes are preparing to bomb southwest Texas with hundreds of thousands of packets of rabies vaccine to inoculate coyotes against rabies.
