Texas runs its own power grid separate from the rest of the U.S. Winter 2021 blackouts were caused by severe weather and a lack of grid winterization. Texas laws now mandate weatherization of energy ...

More than a quarter of the breeding population of purple martins died in Texas and Louisiana during the winter storm.

Historic cold crippled the state of Texas and its power grid for multiple days in February 2021. This my own account of one morning right in the middle of the “icepocalypse” that I won’t soon forget.

Learn how citizen scientists helped scientists measure the deadly impact of the Great Texas Freeze on purple martins.