One of the worst hit drought zones in North America is Arkansas, where lack of rain threatens livestock and crops in almost every corner of the southern state. As VOA's Greg Flakus r...
223 viewsThe increased use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing -- to extract natural gas and oil in many parts of the United States -- has dramatically increased the nation's energ...
230 viewsThe dramatic increase in U.S. natural gas production has made the fuel cheaper and driven projects that would use this resource to replace far dirtier fossil fuels. As VOA's Greg Flak...
193 viewsHouston, Texas, and its surrounding suburbs are growing fast and sprawling out into natural forest areas that are the habitat for many species of indigenous wildlife. Local leaders as well as environm...
210 viewsOne of the films that drew big crowds last week at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, tells the story of the last human being to stand on the moon, U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan. ...
192 viewsIn 2004, Middle East expert Joshua Landis started a blog called Syria Comment, and to his surprise, tens of thousands of people around the world began reading it. Landis is scaling back his blogging b...
189 viewsLast month, Living Blues magazine named Diunna Greenleaf the Female Blues Artist of the Year. But while the Houston-based artist has become well-known in some other countries, she is still struggling ...
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