The study will look at how drought, heat waves and soil impact the cycle of water and carbon between plants and the ...

Jurado, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences at The University of Texas ...

Texas settlers looked around them and saw, on the banks of almost every river and stream, pecan groves that seemed to stretch into infinity. Without compunction they chopped the trees down to grow ...

This shot didn’t win, but the pecan would become the Texas state tree in 1919. Its popularity had been growing since 1906, when former Governor James Hogg’s last wishes included a walnut tree ...

ABC-7 has compiled a list of El Paso's most-loved Thanksgiving food. We asked the community to send in their responses and let us know which traditional (or nontraditional) Thanksgiving food they love ...

Their orchards are now scarred by the sight of dozens upon dozens of uprooted pecan trees amid block pathways strewn with large, browning branches and imposing tree trunks. Driving around the ...

The Lone Star State's pecan crop is worth about a half billion ... come out in full force with roadside stands, storefronts and orchards all peddling their wares, either whole, or most mercifully ...

After an overnight torrent soaked the sandy soil and winds whipped across his orchards, Willis Hartley ... a battered farm with roughly half of its pecan trees now toppled. "It was like a bomb ...