Texas species vulnerable to losing ESA protections

Despite research that shows Americans overwhelmingly support the Endangered Species Act, Congress and the current administration continue to try and weaken it. These Texas species, already affected by climate change, could be especially hard hit by any loss of protection.

Too much of a good thing

Another post for the PBS Nature Blog's summer of love, this one about recent Sargassum blooms. While the floating algae provide habitat and food for a wide variety of marine life in the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean, blooms are taking it a bit too far.

Sea turtle summer of no love

As reptiles, sea turtles lack sex hormones; an embryo becomes male or female depending on the temperature in its nest. Hotter times thanks to climate change threaten to turn the sea turtle future too female. Read more about the problem in this post for the PBS Nature blog.

Science by the Sea

Find your inner marine biologist at these Texas destinations, where laboratories, nature reserves, and aquariums offer the chance to learn more about those beaches and bays we all enjoy so much.  Read the full article in Texas Highways Magazine.