AUSTIN The City Nature Challenge is back in full force for the eighth year. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, through the Texas Nature Trackers program, invites all Texans to participate April ...

There are nearly 8 million people living in North Texas. So this is an urban area, although we're all familiar with the occasional coyote wandering through. But also living among us are bobcats, river ...

Twenty-five miles southeast of Dallas, a boardwalk meanders over a lush, sprawling wetland. Patches of Southern cattail, their velvety hotdog-on-a-stick seedpods swaying in the breeze, mix with plants ...

Not long ago, on a quiet beach near where the Colorado River opens into the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast, I scooped up spiral-shaped lightning whelks and lettered olive shells so shiny they ...

If you're looking for a winter nature getaway, the Rio Grande Valley offers an abundance of birds and butterflies. The region's parks and wildlife refuges are easily accessible and staffed by friendly ...

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Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . FORT WORTH — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will open the state’s ...

The Houston Outdoor Nature Club invites nature lovers to celebrate its 100th anniversary at the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary, north of Cleveland. In April 1923, Dr. R.A. Sell, Mrs. Robert Kerr, ...

If you like nature documentaries, you might have daydreamed that the producers of "Planet Earth" — with its astonishing science and breathtaking photography — devoted a series just to Texas. That's ...

Johnson said bagworms are common in the Texas landscape. The bags, made of silk and bits of plant material, are created by the caterpillar as it grows. "Eventually, it will attach the bag to a stem, ...

Tourists at two Texas nature reserves have been warned of unhealthy air quality levels on Thursday, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). An air-quality map from the EPA's ...

AUSTIN Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), through the Texas Nature Trackers program, invites all Texans to participate April 26-29 in a friendly competition between 15 Texas metropolitan ...