Bird flu in U.S. dairy cows has Canadian public health experts on high alert. With one human case identified in Texas, what is the likelihood of H5N1 influenza moving from birds to mammals to people?
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Extreme downpours and droughts, both fueled by rising global temperatures, are taking a toll on water infrastructure. Communities trying to manage the threats face three big challenges.
For now there’s no spread of H5N1 between humans, which is good news. But bird flu is evolving, and we need to stay vigilant.
The eclipse will allow scientists to get rare measurements of the Sun’s atmosphere.
The Supreme Court announced that Texas can have state authorities arrest and deport undocumented migrants. A lower court has temporarily blocked the law.
The state’s largest wildfire on record tore across the heart of Texas cattle country, and more days of strong winds were forecast. A rangeland ecologist explains why the flames spread so fast.
Texans’ belief in their state’s exceptionalism has helped fuel support for the Republican state government trying to take border security and immigration enforcement into its own hands.
Musk can’t dodge this ruling by moving Tesla’s incorporation to Texas.
An atmospheric scientist explains how rising temperatures are helping to fuel extreme storms, floods, droughts and devastating wildfires.
The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.
This lawsuit is only the latest chapter in a battle between the state and the reproductive health care provider that heated up in 2011.
Elon Musk’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border played into false tropes that paint asylum seekers as dangerous criminals.
Researchers found that lowering restrictions for new teachers had some unintended consequences.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion in schools.
Studying the sample could help answer how water arrived on Earth and how life started.
Setting up buoys in a section of the Rio Grande is more likely to result in migrants seeking pathways elsewhere, rather than deterring migration altogether.
When host communities unexpectedly receive large numbers of migrants, the influx can tax local services – and relations between migrants and residents.
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.
The quality of public debate over free speech in higher education matters. And the debate right now gets the facts all wrong.
Should Canadian hockey fans be frustrated with the success of non-traditional hockey markets at the expense of Canadian teams?
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Josey Centennial Professor of Energy Resources, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University
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Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
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Research Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin
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Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies & Baker Institute Political Science Fellow, Rice University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Geophysics, Southern Methodist University
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Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver
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Adjunct professor, Baylor University
