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03/30/2022
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By Arsenio Toledo
Drought conditions causing surge in cotton prices, raising fears clothes could become more expensive
Freak weather patterns in the United States, including drought conditions in Texas, are affecting the price of cotton, signaling fears that clothes are about to get more expensive. On Monday, March 28, cotton futures in Texas jumped by four percent to reach a price of $1.3171 per pound. At one point during the trading day, cotton futures […]
10/04/2021
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By Ramon Tomey
Broken US pipes spew toxic sewage into Rio Grande toward Mexico
Broken pipes along the U.S.-Mexico border are spewing millions of gallons of untreated sewage daily into the Rio Grande, the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) warns. The IBWC has formally notified Mexican authorities about the spillage originating from ruptured pipes in western El Paso, Texas. According to the IBWC’s estimates, between 3 million and […]
08/02/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
Injecting toxic wastewater into shallow soil primary driver for earthquakes in Texas – study
A study published in the journal PNAS found that injecting toxic wastewater into shallow soil is driving the recent rise in earthquake activity in Texas. Researchers explained that wastewater injection increases the crustal stresses acting on the faults beneath the Delaware Basin, a layer of rock underneath West Texas and New Mexico. Once enough stress accumulated, the faults would […]
07/27/2021
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By Ramon Tomey
La Porte, Texas orders evacuations after factory chemical leak
Residents of the city of La Porte, Texas were ordered to evacuate and stay indoors on July 21 following a chemical leak from a factory. The La Porte Office of Emergency Management (OEM) issued the order after an incident that occurred in a Dow Chemical plant located in the city. Authorities eventually gave the “all […]
03/10/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
Ice can cause wind turbines to produce up to 80 percent less power, according to study
The power that icing can cause wind turbines to lose up to 80 percent of their power generation, according to a new study published in the journal Renewable Energy. Lead researcher Hui Hu, a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, and his team carried out a field study of a Chinese wind farm after a decade of performing lab studies of […]
02/22/2021
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By News Editors
Cascend: Data shows wind-power was chief culprit of Texas grid collapse
With the worst of the Texas power crisis now behind us, the blame and fingerpointing begins, and while the jury is still out whose actions (or lack thereof) may have led to the deadly and widespread blackouts that shocked Texas this week, Cascend Strategy writes that “in case there was any doubt why the Texas grid collapsed, […]
02/21/2021
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By Ethan Huff
Are frozen wind turbines partially to blame for Texas blackouts?
The Republic of Texas is hobbling through a record-breaking cold spell coupled with snow and ice that has left nearly 4.5 million “customers” throughout the state – a single customer is an entire household of people – without power as of mid-day Tuesday. Electric utilities warned that millions of Texans would have to endure rolling […]
03/26/2020
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By Franz Walker
Carbon dioxide may be the key to unlocking vast natural gas resources, research says
Carbon dioxide may be used to help produce natural gas from deposits buried deep beneath the Earth. A recent study is proposing that air and carbon dioxide injected into methane ice deposits that are buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico could unlock vast natural energy resources. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) […]
08/01/2019
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By Mike Adams
Natural News offers $1000 reward for video evidence of ongoing sewage violations at Houston’s intercontinental airport (IAH)
Raw sewage from arriving aircraft at the George W. Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas is being routinely dumped into storm drains that ultimately flush into the Gulf of Mexico, Natural News has learned in an exclusive investigation. Raw sewage from incoming flights is suctioned from airplane toilets via a powerful suction device mounted […]
04/13/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Long-term study looks at impact of ocean pollution across coastal environments and communities
Researchers recently published the results of two years of studying ocean garbage that washed up on the shores of the Gulf states. They found that plastic is the most common type of trash; that Texas ends up with the most coastal debris; and that spring and summer months are the worst. Trash in the ocean […]
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