drought

This past summer has been very hot and dry and I noticed how it affected my yard and killed off my grass. However, I have noticed an overabundance of weeds growing, What is Texas Red Dirt made of?

The West Texas atmosphere is hot and extremely dry. It's affecting our moods, animals, and our vegetation, to be exact it's killing our trees.

The severe drought across Texas has had an unexpected effect for history buffs: the exposure of ghost towns, graves and artifacts that were previously underwater. The town of Bluffton, Texas was covered by water when the Colorado River was dammed up in 1937 to create Lake Buchanan.  In previous droughts, portions of the old town have become visible, but not very often.  Now, with the worst one yea

It already has doomsayers making end-of-the-world predictions, but the explanation is a little more scientific than Biblical. The OC Fisher reservoir lake near San Angelo is almost completely dry due to the extreme drought across all of Texas. The water that's left, only a small amount, is indeed blood red due to Chromatiaceae bacteria, which thrive in oxygen depleted water.