[1/5] Cattle move throughout a pasture during a heat wave, on rancher David Henderson's ranch property, in Tennessee Colony, Texas, U.S. August 3, 2023.
REUTERS/Evan GarciaTENNESSEE COLONY, Texas, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The brown and black cattle of Texas, beloved symbols of the Lone Star state, walk through desiccated grass and stand in shrunken watering holes while their ranchers struggle to get them enough food.
Henderson, 62, manages a herd of about 150 cows in Tennessee Colony in East Texas, and said he sold roughly 30 cows in 2022 due to the drought.
Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon predicts extreme heat spurred by global warming will become the norm.
And that, in addition, means that the heat extremes will be that much hotter and that much more severe."
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