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National Center for Atmospheric Research

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    Too Much Pavement

    Houston's strip malls increase heat, pollution.

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Houston: All That Pavement Makes Us Hotter, More Polluted

    NCARArrows mean bad news.​You used to hate Houston's ever-growing amount of pavement for increasing flooding and general ugliness. Now you can hate it for making you sweat and breathe bad air. A major new study of the Houston area says "the proliferation of strip malls, subdivisions, and othe ... More >>

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    Bring It On

    Why Houston should want a nuclear power plant

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Global Warming Is Good for You!

    Cheap heating bills! Great gardens! Thriving civilizations! In energy-crazed Houston, friends of greenhouse gases abound

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