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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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You can find all kinds of weather in Austin, from flooding rains to ice storms. But the one thing you can count on is that it's hot and getting hotter.
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After two back-to-back summers of record-breaking heat, many expected more of the same. But so far, the West Coast has been the region to tangle with the "heat dome." That could change, though.
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Los fuegos artificiales no sólo asustan a los animales y lesionan a las personas, sino que también son perjudiciales para la calidad del aire cuando no hay viento que disipe el humo.
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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.
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Cada año, el polvo del Sáhara llega a Austin, trayendo consigo cielos brumosos, hermosas puestas de sol y problemas respiratorios.
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Every year, dust from the Sahara arrives in Austin — bringing with it hazy skies, beautiful sunsets and respiratory problems.
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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.
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Chirping frogs fill the night air with strange squeaks and whistles all over Austin, but they are nearly impossible to see.
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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.
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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.