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The Texas prophecy: Wastewater injection research in the Permian Basin
In August 1981, Catherine Allen’s parents moved to Midland, Texas, following a minister’s prophecy. Nearly half a century later, their daughter debates leasing her property’s mineral rights to a developer drilling beneath her neighborhood, fearing another earthquake triggered by ongoing operations.
Mourning Flora: Discourse behind the removal of a community tree
Earlier this semester, Austinites celebrated the life, and mourned the removal, of Flo- a tree that once dangled over Barton Springs Pool. The Daily Texan spoke with community members to learn more. Produced by Lucia Llano.
Pomegranate, fig and almond trees
My Uzbek roots gravitate to land. The living clay, the quilted kurpacha, the plowed soil. The love for earth disciplined and arranged my people’s way of life. It took and it gave, nourished and destroyed.