
Houston Matters
Cost of prescription drugs (March 7, 2023)
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · Episode: 2392 A weather report, and more, from the South Pole. Today, a weather report.
Posted on · Episode: 2826 Reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide with carbon sequestration. Today, the world's highest profile molecule.
Posted on · Episode: 2215 Surviving Ourselves: Another look at the long ecology debate. Today, the problem of saving the world.
Posted on · Episode: 2199 Who were the Irish long ago? Today, when the Irish were Egyptians.
Posted on · Episode: 2179 Science magazine’s list of Breakthroughs in 2006. Today, the big science news of 2006.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · Houston’s average monthly temperatures have gotten warmer year-round, according to the latest data from NOAA.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · Dakota Stormer launched his Footprint App this month on smartphones.
Posted on · It comes a day after yet another tropical storm put parts of Houston under water.
Posted on · Young activists in Houston weigh in on the issue of climate change ahead of an event with author and environmentalist Bill McKibben.