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Houston Matters

Cost of prescription drugs (March 7, 2023)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on March 7, 2023 · On Tuesday's show: Eli Lilly is capping the cost of its insulin. We discuss why and consider how it might affect the prices for other medications.

Tags Black Chameleon climate change Deborah DEEP Mouton drug costs Eli Lilly global warming gulf of mexico health care insulin Ken Janda Lori Teller memoir noaa oceans prescription drug prices prescription drugs veterinarian veterinary care

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2392: A Weather Report

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 5, 2022 · Episode: 2392 A weather report, and more, from the South Pole. Today, a weather report.

Tags Amundsen-Scott Antarctica biology climate change cold environment geodesic dome geology global warming humidity Jerri Nielson Leonid Rogozov medicine mosses South Pole Station time zones Transantarctic Mountains weather report

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2826: Carbon Sequestration

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on August 9, 2022 · Episode: 2826 Reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide with carbon sequestration. Today, the world's highest profile molecule.

Tags carbon dioxide Carbon sequestration carbon storage CO2 fossil fuels global warming grand challenges greenhouse gasses national academy of engineering

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2215: Surviving Ourselves

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 24, 2022 · Episode: 2215 Surviving Ourselves: Another look at the long ecology debate. Today, the problem of saving the world.

Tags Ashton Hayes asimov carbon dioxide carbon neutrality CO2 DDT ecology environment environmentalists gaia global warming green James Lovelock Garry Charnock malaria nuclear power

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2199: Who Were the Irish?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 20, 2022 · Episode: 2199 Who were the Irish long ago? Today, when the Irish were Egyptians.

Tags Algles anthropology archaeology Basgue language celtic dna early Britons ethnicity evolution farming global warming Great Britain Ice Age ireland Irish linguistics modern human emicgrations saxons Stephen Oppenheimer Turkey Vikings

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2179: Science Breakthroughs of 2006

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 7, 2022 · Episode: 2179 Science magazine’s list of Breakthroughs in 2006. Today, the big science news of 2006.

Tags biology evolution Fields Medal genetics global warming Grigori Perelman ice sheets melting missing link fish reptiles oceans Poincaré's conjecture RNA Science magazine scientific breakthroughs topology

Energy & Environment

Biden announces a plan in Glasgow to help poorer countries with climate change

Brian Naylor, NPR

Posted on November 1, 2021 · In a speech to the U.N. climate summit on Monday, President Biden laid out his strategy for reaching goals to curb emissions — and a plan to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

Tags climate change global warming Joe Biden U.N. climate summit United Nations

Energy & Environment

Carbon Dioxide, Which Drives Climate Change, Reaches Highest Level In 4 Million Years

Eric McDaniel, NPR

Posted on June 8, 2021 · The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, according to NOAA. Fossil fuel use is driving the increase.

Tags climate change global warming greenhouse-gas emissions National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Energy & Environment

Houston’s ‘New Normal’: A Hotter And Wetter Climate

Katie Watkins

Posted on May 6, 2021 · Houston’s average monthly temperatures have gotten warmer year-round, according to the latest data from NOAA.

Tags climate change flooding global warming heat hot Hurricane Harvey Hurricanes Matt lanza rain Space City Weather storms

Energy & Environment

Biden Makes New Pledge For U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A 50% Cut

SCOTT DETROW, NPR

Posted on April 22, 2021 · The president will begin a climate summit by announcing that the United States will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade.

Tags climate change Climate Summit Donald Trump Emissions global warming greenhouse gas Joe Biden ndc Paris Agreement

Energy & Environment

Climate Report Forecasts Houston Will Have Longer Heatwaves, Hotter Days And Nights By End Of Century

Katie Watkins

Posted on September 16, 2020 · Without a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, Houston could see heatwaves that last up to 111 days by the end of the century, according to a new climate report.

Tags climate change Climate week global warming sylvester turner

Energy & Environment

Texas’ Biggest Oil And Gas Industry Group Accepts Role In Climate Change

Mose Buchele, KUT

Posted on January 14, 2020 · Scientists have said for more than a century that emitting carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels heats up Earth’s atmosphere. But, until recently, industry representatives and their political allies have avoided acknowledging the link publically.

Tags climate change gas industry global warming oil industry Texas Oil and Gas Association

Bauer Business Focus

This Houston Entrepreneur’s App Aims To Help People Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Florian Martin

Posted on December 13, 2019 · Dakota Stormer launched his Footprint App this month on smartphones.

Tags carbon footprint climate change global warming startup tech

Energy & Environment

Students Rally Outside Houston City Hall For Global Climate Change Strike

Florian Martin

Posted on September 20, 2019 · It comes a day after yet another tropical storm put parts of Houston under water.

Tags climate change climate strike fridays for future global warming

Houston Matters

We’ve Known About Climate Change For Years And Young People Are Frustrated Over Inaction

Michael Hagerty

Posted on September 12, 2019 · Young activists in Houston weigh in on the issue of climate change ahead of an event with author and environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Tags 350 Action Houston 350.org Bill McKibben climate change global warming Michael Hagerty Sarah Greenberg Shelly Baker Sunrise Movement

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Americans on Medicaid will have to sign up to renew their coverage — do they know that?

Michael Hagerty

Posted on March 27, 2023 · A health economist explains why the change is happening now and what qualified Medicaid recipients should do about it.

Tags COVID-19 health care medicaid uninsured Texans Vivian Ho

Houston Matters

Medicaid change’s impact on Texas (March 27, 2023)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on March 27, 2023 · On Monday's show: Part of the Medicaid enrollment process that was instigated because of the COVID-19 pandemic is ending soon. We learn how it might affect the uninsured in Texas.

Tags Dwight Silverman health care immigration immigration law Jeff Balke medicaid sports technology Vivian Ho

Houston Matters

Abortion wrongful death lawsuit may be the first of many ‘for decades to come’

Troy Schulze

Posted on March 23, 2023 · Three Texas women are being sued for wrongful death for allegedly helping a friend obtain an abortion.

Tags abortion abortion lawsuit Eleanor Klibanoff Galveston County health care Roe v. Wade Texas Tribune womens health

Weather

Springtime in Houston likely to be warmer than usual in 2023, NOAA forecasters predict

Adam Zuvanich

Posted on March 20, 2023 · Much of Texas and the southeastern United States also have high likelihoods of experiencing hotter-than-usual springs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Tags climate change Houston weather National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service noaa weather forecast

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