| September |
| 9/1/2026 | Bullock Museum brings water to life during H-E-B Free Fest Sunday | CBS Austin; Do512 |
| 9/1/2026 | What to Expect: A Q & A with PBPA President Ben Shepperd | PB Oil & Gas |
| 9/1/2026 | Lawmakers question lack of information about water usage by data centers | CBS Austin; The Katy News |
| 9/1/2026 | NPC Report Calls for National Cooperative Subsurface Assessment Program | Ocean News & Technology; ENP Newswire; M2 PressWIRE; Webull |
| 9/1/2026 | Awaiting a boom from lithium production | Austin American-Statesman |
| 9/9/2026 | Permian Basin geoscientists see AI, nuclear, water roles | Europe Says |
| 9/11/2026 | University of Texas Austin Researchers Detail Research in Geoscience | Science Letter; NewsRx Science Daily |
| 9/15/2026 | Bullock Museum brings water to life during H-E-B Free Fest Sunday | FreightWeek |
| 9/15/2026 | TexNet Researchers Using AI to Build Early-Warning System for Texas Earthquakes | The Lens |
| 9/18/2026 | Abbott puts brakes on data center boom | VOZ Media |
| 9/19/2026 | Geoscientists needed to help solve today’s energy challenges | Midland Reporter-Telegram |
| 9/21/2026 | Developers seek to tap hot brine beneath Texas for lithium, geothermal power | Market Intelligence News |
| 9/22/2026 | Exclusive: Texas plants first rare-earth mining district in Hudspeth County | Daily Caller; BizPac Review; Kausfiles; Conservative Daily News; Total News Agency |
| 9/22/2026 | Winnie, Texas: The Gulf Coast's Carbon-Storage Gamble | The Seabreeze Beacon |
| 9/22/2026 | Texas Land Commissioner Buckingham Advances Texas' First Rare Earth Mining District After Announcing New Mineral Lease | The Gilmer Mirror; US Fed News; texasinsider; US States News; Technology, Science and Me! |
| 9/25/2026 | Texas Escalates Data Center Oversight with Attorney General Water-Use Investigation | Foley & Lardner LLP; National Law Review; JD Supra |
| 9/25/2026 | Studies in the Area of Data Centers Reported from University of Texas Austin (System-scale design and analysis of desalination systems for meeting water needs of data centers) | Information Technology Daily |
| 9/28/2026 | New Climate Change Study Findings Recently Were Reported by Researchers at University of Texas Austin | Global Warming Focus; Climate Change Daily News |
| 9/28/2026 | Investigadores desarrollan lixiviacion in situ asistida con CO2 para recuperar uranio y otros minerales criticos | Redimin |
| 9/28/2026 | Texas Signs Rare Earth Leases with El Paso Minerals for More Than 1,000 Acres | Skillings Mining Review |
| August |
| 8/3/2026 | Studies from University of Texas Austin Have Provided New Data on Networks (Probabilistic Neural Networks and Bayesian Characterization of Salt Creek Field, Midland Basin, Kent County, Texas) | Journal of Engineering; Network Daily News |
| 8/5/2026 | USGS Report Estimates 83 Billion Metric Tons of Gulf Coast Coal | Targeted News Service |
| 8/10/2026 | Down Under | PB Oil & Gas |
| 8/16/2026 | How Planned 'Border Patrol Roads' Will Devastate Big Bend National Park | A Billion Worlds |
| 8/18/2026 | Grant funding for study on aquifer that feed Krause Springs and Little Cyprus Creek | Daily Trib |
| 8/20/2026 | East Texas sits on a goldmine of lithium, but questions loom over how the state will regulate mining and production | The Texas Tribune; WFAA; Click2Houston; Homeland Security News Wire; Texarkana Gazette WebNews; Arkansas Advocate; San Antonio Express-News |
| 8/21/2026 | Permian Wells Longer Than Three Miles Now Make Up 15 Percent of New Completions, Federal Data Shows | Nature World News |
| 8/30/2026 | Awaiting a boom | San Antonio Express-News; Houston Chronicle |
| 8/31/2026 | Families learn about Texas waterways during free museum day | Head Topics |
| 8/31/2026 | NPC Urges Swift Action to Assess America's Subsurface Resources and Secure Competitiveness | Fidelity; Morningstar; PR Newswire; MENAFN; Third News; California Consumer Banking |
| July |
| 7/1/2026 | Where Have the Geoscience Students Gone? | AAPG Explorer |
| 7/1/2026 | New database for subsurface energy storage could be boon for natural gas industry | EurekAlert!; Information Technology Newsweekly |
| 7/2/2026 | Innovative Database for Subsurface Energy Storage Promises New Opportunities for Natural Gas Sector | Bioengineer; Tech Xplore |
| 7/3/2026 | Where Earth Science Meets Artificial Intelligence: Inside the HydroML Symposium | Oden Institute |
| 7/3/2026 | Researcher from University of Texas Austin Discusses Findings in Energy (Geoscience-informed evaluation of U.S. natural gas storage reservoirs, aquifers and salt caverns) | Energy Weekly News; Energy Daily News |
| 7/4/2026 | Water, Water Everywhere—or Maybe Not | Townhall |
| 7/10/2026 | Why The East Coast Has More Barrier Islands Than The West Coast | islands.com |
| 7/10/2026 | Data on Fuel Research Reported by Researchers at University of Texas Austin (Deep Learning Enhanced Analyses for Pore Type-based Pore Characteristics In Shales Using High-resolution Large-area Sem) | Energy Weekly News |
| 7/14/2026 | Dominican government and University of Texas begin research in the areas of geology and hydrocarbons | bnamericas; Domincan Today; DR1.com |
| 7/17/2026 | Sedimentary Division Lecture - Zoltan Sylvester | Geological Society of America |
| 7/22/2026 | Oxford Academy And Central School To Welcome 2026 Hall Of Distinction Honorees On Friday | The Evening Sun |
| 7/23/2026 | Teremoto de magnitud 5,0 sacude el norte de Texas | Ciber Cuba |
| 7/26/2026 | WTGS to celebrate centennial with expanded conference | Midland Reporter-Telegram |
| 7/26/2026 | America's coal plants left behind 1.8 billion tonnes of ash: Researchers say it could yeild $8.4 billion in rare-Earth elements | The Times of India |
| 7/28/2026 | Are data centers an economic boon for Texas? We break it down | Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
| 7/28/2026 | Texas imports of Venezuelan oil soar as war chokes off Middle East supply | The Texas Tribune; KTSA; The Killeen Daily Herald; HPPR; San Antonio Express-News; Newsmax; KANZ-FM |
| 7/29/2026 | A Conspiracy to Murder Mariscal Mountain in Big Bend? | A Billion Worlds |
| June |
| 6/1/2026 | Guest Editorial: Rising Pressures and Legacy Wells—The Permian Basin’s Next Challenge | Journal of Petroleum Technology |
| 6/2/2026 | Texas Is Becoming a Data Center Hotspot. What Does That Mean for Our Communities? | Sierra Club |
| 6/2/2026 | Texas' 9 Underrated Gulf Coast Beaches Have the Same Charm With Little Crowds | Islands; NewsBreak |
| 6/3/2026 | Nuclear Safety From the Ground Up | UT News; ENP Newswire |
| 6/3/2026 | Google announces $10M Texas water impact fund; makes data center water use pledges | KXAN |
| 6/7/2026 | Dairy Bet $1.6B on the Fastest-Drying Part of the Ogallala | The Bullvine |
| 6/5/2026 | Groundwater Availability Faces Big West-East Divide That is Expected to Intensify | TEXAS Geosciences |
| 6/8/2026 | Faculty Members Awarded ‘New Directions’ Seed Funding To Explore Emerging Research Opportunities | UT News; US Fed News |
| 6/9/2026 | Water, Water Everywhere: Maximizing Oil Field Produced Water Use in West Texas | RealClear Energy |
| 6/10/2026 | The Great Plains are losing their largest water source... Fast | The Bight; Substack |
| 6/11/2026 | Gulf Coast Coal Holds Billions in Critical Minerals. But the Economics are Tricky | TEXAS Geosciences; Tech Xplore |
| 6/12/2026 | Wrong State, Wrong Industry: Sierra Club Uses North Carolina Turkey Farm Stock Photo to Attack Texas Produced Water Reuse | Energy In Depth |
| 6/15/2026 | Billions in Critical Minerals Lurking in Gulf Coast Coal: Unraveling the Economic Challenges | Scienmag |
| 6/15/2026 | Getting Rid of the Water | Watt's Up With That? |
| 6/15/2026 | Blue Energy and Calcuta Resources Form Joint Venture to Build an Oklahoma Carbon-Storage Platform | Globe Newswire |
| 6/15/2026 | Data center suspected in S. Texas water fight | Austin American- Statesman |
| 6/18/2026 | Field Trial Shows That Vibratory Tool Limits Paraffin, Asphaltenes | The American Ol & Gas Reporter |
| 6/22/2026 | University of Texas Professor Dr. Katherine Romanak shows the effect of CO2 in Water | East Texas Banner |
| 6/22/2026 | University of Texas Researcher Professors field Carbon Capture questions | East Texas Banner |
| 6/26/2026 | New Database for Subsurface Energy Storage Could be Boon for Natural Gas Industry | TEXAS Geosciences |
| 6/28/2026 | Data centers owe public clear answers on water | San Antonio Express-News |
| 6/29/2026 | The Clarity of the Lens: A Tribute to Dr. Scott Tinker | The Word Merchant |
| 6/29/2026 | Researcher from University of Texas Austin Discusses Findings in Energy | Energy Daily News |
| May |
| 5/1/2026 | $33B transmission build-out leaves Texas ranchers fuming | E&E News |
| 5/1/2026 | Research on Alkalies Reported by Researchers at University of Texas Austin (Depositional model for the spatiotemporal evolution of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic icehouse system: Pennsylvanian Strawn Group, Eastern Shelf, Permian Basin, USA) | Chemicals & Chemistry |
| 5/3/2026 | Google rolls out AI tool to predict flash floods up to 24 hours ahead | Wood-TV |
| 5/6/2026 | Data Centers Are Growing in Texas, But Big Questions Remain About Water Use | UT News; Tech Xplore; ENP Newswire; States News Service; US Fed News; Targeted News Service; Houston Public Media; KETR |
| 5/6/2026 | Texas data centers could amount to 9% of the state’s water use by 2040, study finds | KXAN; KERA; Texas Public Radio; Yahoo; ABC13; KTBC; KTRK; KDFW; Fox 26; KRIV; KMID |
| 5/11/2026 | Permitting, zoning and the risk of running out of rock | Pit & Quarry |
| 5/11/2026 | Central Texas ranch pioneers one of state's first public rainwater systems | Spectrum News 1 |
| 5/18/2026 | Governor Abbott Appoints Roy To TexNet Technical Advisory Committee | Office of the Governor; States News Service; Mena Report; TendersInfo - News; Targeted News Service; The Eagle |
| 5/18/2026 | Texas faces water supply woes as big tech continues its Lone Star takeover | MySA |
| 5/19/2026 | Verified Carbon Files Patent For Carbon Storage Rating Platform CarbonIQ | Carbon Herald; Carbon Capture Journal |
| 5/19/2026 | Proposed Bill Would Stop Eminent Domain for Carbon Dioxide Pipelines in Illinois | The Daily Yonder |
| 5/22/2026 | Alleged data center plan halts Corpus Christi's efforts to boost water supplies | Yahoo! News; The Cool Down; Austin American-Statesman; Inside Climate News; Route Fifty |
| 5/27/2026 | The Data Center Boom Is Reshaping Texas — and Every Business Needs to Understand Why | JD Supra; Mondaq Business Briefing; National Law Review; Newstex Blogs; Europe Says |
| 5/28/2026 | East Texas could be the key to developing critical lithium supply for the U.S. military | The Texas Tribune; Kilgore News Herald |
| 5/29/2026 | Researchers studying aquifer to gauge future of popular swimming hole | KXAN; Yahoo! News |
| April |
| 4/7/2026 | Four Jackson School Graduate Programs Rank in Top Five Nationally | Texas Geosciences |
| 4/7/2026 | Texas is a major oil producer, yet prices remain high | Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
| 4/11/2026 | PEMEX's Deer Park Refinery Receives Venezuelan Crude | Mexico Business News; CE Noticias Financieras English |
| 4/16/2026 | Preparing for the State’s Future Energy Needs | UT News; ENP Newswire; US Fed News; News Pub |
| 4/19/2026 | Austin Area Severe Thunderstorms: Winds Over 40 MPH | News USA Today |
| 4/20/2026 | 2026 Strategic Energy Seed Grants Awarded | UT Energy Institute |
| 4/22/2026 | Measuring How Stressed Rocks ‘Sigh’ Before Breaking to Predict Geohazards | Archyde |
| 4/27/2026 | Why 2 oil states are slow to embrace wastewater recycling | E&E News |
| 4/27/2026 | Google rolls out AI tool to predict flash floods up to 24 hours ahead | KXAN; Yahoo! News; The Hill; WGHP-TV |
| 4/27/2026 | University of Texas Austin Reports Findings in Machine Learning (Strategic Placement of Infill Wells In the Midland Basin: Addressing Stress Depletion From Parent Well Production) | Journal of Robotics & Machine Learning |
| 4/29/2026 | Research Conducted at University of Texas Austin Has Updated Our Knowledge about Biofuel (Levelized Cost Pass-through of Green Hydrogen In the Bioethanol Fuel Value Chain In U.s. Midwest) | Biotech Week |
| 4/29/2026 | Can dunking electronics in fluid cut data centers' water and energy use? | Austin American-Statesman; Star-Telegram |
| 4/29/2026 | Research on Alkalies Reported by Researchers at University of Texas Austin (Depositional model for the spatiotemporal evolution of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic icehouse system: Pennsylvanian Strawn Group, Eastern Shelf, Permian Basin , USA) | Chemicals & Chemistry Daily |
| March |
| 3/2/2026 | Salt of the Earth: Vast Underground Salt Caverns Are Preserving Our History—and Just Might Power Our Future | Eos; ZME Science |
| 3/2/2026 | An Indigenous cemetery was rescued, now AI may threaten it | Yahoo! News |
| 3/2/2026 | NPC Members | U.S. Department of Energy |
| 3/2/2026 | Finding the Fun in Red Tape | AAPG |
| 3/3/2026 | Inaspect the thrilling world of EPA Class VI CO₂ injection approvals | Fooshya |
| 3/4/2026 | Stoneburner: Australia on the Cusp to be ‘Next Big Thing’ in Feeding Asia LNG | Hart Energy |
| 3/14/2026 | A New Era of Data Center Development Is Like a Second Industrial Revolution | Inside Climate News; Route Fifty |
| 3/17/2026 | EIA refines estimates for Permian tight oil and shale gas production | EIA; ForeignAffairs.co.nz; Watts Up With That?; States News Service; American Journal of Transportation |
| 3/17/2026 | Study Findings from University of Texas Austin Advance Knowledge in Geoscience | NewsRx Science Daily |
| 3/17/2026 | Groundwater study to map springs, creeks | The Highlander |
| 3/18/2026 | Burnet County Invited to Learn About State of Local Aquifer | Daily Trib |
| 3/23/2026 | Newest leader of University’s oldest research facility has long history with Jackson School of Geosciences | Texas Connect |
| 3/25/2026 | The future of net-zero mining is here | Open Access Government |
| 3/30/2026 | The Great Heaving Mass of Idiots | Substack |
| 3/30/2026 | Findings from University of Texas Austin Yields New Data on Machine Learning | Journal of Engineering; Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News |
| February |
| 2/5/2026 | $1.6B to Texas and Kansas, 76% of Wisconsin Farms Gone: Scale Up, Go Premium, or Get Out | The Bullvine |
| 2/6/2026 | UT Researchers Map the Path to Viable Carbon Capture | UT News; ENP Newswire; M2 Presswire; Pollution Online |
| 2/9/2026 | Peter Flemings Named Interim Chair of Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Texas Geosciences |
| 2/9/2026 | Data on Geophysics Reported by Researchers at University of Texas Austin | The Journal of Engineering; Network Daily News |
| 2/9/2026 | Fungi mining and giant waste piles: How to get rare earths without mining rock | BBC |
| 2/11/2026 | Austin company develops alternative to large, energy-consuming data centers | Spectrum News 13; Spectrum News 1 Dallas; Spectrum News 1 Austin; Spectrum News San Antonio |
| 2/11/2026 | Powering AI: Energizing the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
| 2/12/2026 | Why are our taps running dry? | BBC |
| 2/16/2026 | Moscardelli and Bureau Focus on Serving the State | Texas Geosciences |
| 2/16/2026 | Tackling Challenges for Data Center Growth in Texas | Texas Geosciences |
| 2/18/2026 | Strategic Placement of Infill Wells in the Midland Basin: Addressing Stress Depletion From Parent Well Production | Journal of Petroleum Technology |
| 2/20/2026 | Texas refineries see opportunity in Venezuelan oil amid Mexico export declines | The Texas Tribune; Click2Houston; World Ports Organization (Singapore) |
| 2/20/2026 | Louisiana represented at ‘Produced Water Society’ conference | Minden Press-Herald; Bienville Parish Journal |
| January |
| 1/7/2026 | America’s biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker | The Water Network |
| 1/8/2026 | A Hidden Energy Source Was Found Buried Beneath Texas’ Soil, Researchers Say It Could Fuel the Future | Indian Defence Review |
| 1/11/2026 | Buried fortune: US finds $8.4 billion in rare earths sitting in coal ash landfills | MSN; Coal News; Daily Kos |
| 1/12/2026 | El Niño and La Niña Make Water Extremes Move in Sync | Texas Geosciences; Science Daily; SSBCrack News; SciTechDaily; Environmental News Network; Nagaland Post WebNews; Eurasia Review; Space Daily; Europe Says; Carrier Management |
| 1/16/2026 | ‘Massive’ untapped oil and gas reserves discovered beneath the Permian. What will it take to tap it? | Houston Chronicle; Energy News Beat; Moneycontrol; Oil Price; Fort Worth Inc.; MSN; Legal Insurrection; Daily Finance; Yahoo! Singapore WebNews; News18.com WebNews; News18 Kannada |
| 1/19/2026 | Is it about oil? | Dissident Voice |
| 1/26/2026 | 4.3 earthquake reported near Lake J.B. Thomas | Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
| 1/28/2026 | News From Around Campus | UT Energy Bulletin |
