nature

It is said that no man is an island, and those words ring especially true at Texas A&M University.

In the past 20 years, at least 40 football players have died from heat-related conditions, which should serve as a sober reminder to the thousands of high school and college players.

Vaughn Bryant, an anthropology professor at Texas A&M and a melissopalynologist tested honey samples from grocery stores around the country and found more than 75 percent of the honey being sold has all of the pollen filtered out.

The island experienced extensive erosion due to the storm’s crashing waves and 15-foot storm surge when it made landfall on Sept. 13, 2008 and caused $30 billion in damages.

Sea-level rise is not the type of looming coastal natural hazard that announces itself with the roaring bravado of a hurricane, but it is there.

Hurricane Ike’s death and destruction vividly pointed out the need for protection from hurricane storm surge in the Houston-Galveston region.

“My first thought when I saw the news reports of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf two years ago were, ‘Oh my gosh, I wonder if some of the bombs down there are to blame.'”

A team led by a Texas A&M University researcher has found a new water cycle connection between the U.S. southwest and the tropics, and understanding the processes that have brought precipitation to the western U.S.

Antarctica is at risk from human activities and other forces, and environmental management is needed to protect the planet’s last great wilderness area.

Betsy and Peter Forster of Washington, D. C., pledged $1 million to the Texas A&M Foundation in support of the renovation and expansion of Texas A&M University’s Memorial Student Center.