Mose Buchele
Senior Correspondent, Energy & EnvironmentMose Buchele focuses on energy and environmental reporting at KUT. He has been on staff at KUT since 2009, covering local and state issues. Mose has also worked as a blogger on politics and an education reporter at his hometown paper in Western Massachusetts. He holds master's degrees in Latin American Studies and Journalism from UT Austin. You can email him at mbuchele@kut.org.
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Not only do fireworks scare animals and injure people, they are also bad for air quality when there's no wind to blow the smoke away. -
Cada año, el polvo del Sáhara llega a Austin, trayendo consigo cielos brumosos, hermosas puestas de sol y problemas respiratorios. -
Soda cans will often warp or explode when they're left in a car in summer. Here's why that happens and a reminder of how dangerous hot cars can be. -
Chirping frogs fill the night air with strange squeaks and whistles all over Austin, but they are nearly impossible to see. -
Power grid anxiety is nothing new in Texas. But a surge in artificial intelligence data centers is posing a new challenge to an already fragile energy system. -
For the fourth year in a row, city contractors will apply a treatment to Lady Bird Lake to try to fight the growth of toxic cyanobacteria. The modified clay targets the phosphorus that the algae feed on. -
Normalmente, Austin puede esperar uno o dos días al año en los que el humo en el aire se eleva a un nivel considerado peligroso para algunas personas. Este año ya hemos tenido ocho de esos días, y sólo estamos en mayo. -
Usually, Austin can expect a day or two a year when smoke in the air rises to a level deemed dangerous for some people. We've already had eight such days this year, and it's only May.
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Trees closer to leaking city water systems show less evidence of drought stress than their more rural counterparts. -
¿Es el calor precoz un presagio de otro verano abrasador?
