For those reopening their businesses after the pandemic, water system officials say you should flush your pipes. Cockrell School of Engineering Professor and Planet Texas 2050 researcher Mary Jo Kirisits explains why.

Classics Professor and Planet Texas 2050 organizing committee member Adam Rabinowitz is among several University of Texas at Austin professors granted the 2020-2021 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. Hear from him and others what makes a great teacher.

A new University of Texas at Austin and City of Austin project will help Austinites to beat the heat.

The University of Texas at Austin, the city of Austin and the neighborhood group Go Austin/Vamos Austin are working to create heat maps for the entire city with the goal of coming up with cooling solutions for the places that suffer the most.

Community and Regional Planning doctoral candidate Deidre Zoll shares about her work examining the climate planning efforts in Houston and San Antonio and whether they amplify existing inequalities.

Planet Texas 2050 researcher and Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Dev Niyogi joins Texas Public Radio's The Source to talk about U.S. President Biden's infrastructure investment plans and shifts to greener energy.

Planet Texas 2050 researcher and LBJ School of Public Affairs environmental policy expert Patrick Bixler joins Texas Public Radio's The Source to talk about energy reform, climate change and environment-related bills the Texas Legislature is taking up this session.

Borders today are understood as political demarcations that separate states and nation-states. But, sometimes, we share more in common with the people beyond these arbitrary lines than we think.

Natural environments seldom follow political borders. While sometimes arbitrary lines on a map separate states, natural environments shape the way people live. Mexican American and Latino/a Studies Assistant Professor C.J. Alvarez explores the identities of what he calls “desert dwellers” and how the Chihuahuan shapes and defines them.

Researchers at UT Austin have been working on a project using advanced modeling to predict when certain electrical substations will be thrown offline during an extreme weather event. The goal is to help design a better, more resilient system by assisting energy companies, policymakers and state agencies in planning infrastructure investments during the next decade. The team has been focused on flooding from major hurricanes, but now, they are considering how the model could be tweaked to improve the state’s power grid in the face of a winter storm