Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...

The stately live oak tree next to the old A.J. Moore High School tennis court on Jefferson Avenue has survived prairie fires, droughts, settlements of Waco Indians and pioneers, a tornado and the ...

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Iron gates surrounding Calder Avenue's live oak trees aren't harming the historic trees, city officials say. Concern regarding the gates potentially damaging the trees' trunks recently arose on social ...