Black bear encounters are on the rise in Tennessee, and climate change is often a hidden culprit, tampering with ecosystems in unexpected ways.
Threatened orchids were returning to southern Kentucky, then the 2025 tornado hit
Researchers have spent two decades restoring native wetlands in southern Kentucky, and with them the white fringeless orchid. But those efforts were disrupted when an EF4 tornado swept through the area in May 2025, carving visible lines in the landscape.
Nashville leaders request moratorium on NES tree trimming policy
Nashville’s Metro Council is asking the Nashville Electric Service for a temporary moratorium on its new tree trimming policy — though it’s unclear it will make an immediate difference.
After cataclysmic tree loss, Nashville residents fear damage from new NES tree trimming policy
The Nashville Electric Service is cutting down more trees and limbs across town under a new policy.
Is Nashville more ‘buggy’ during the record-warm spring?
Warmth is likely promoting earlier activity from ants, moths, ticks and more after Nashville had its hottest April and second-hottest March on record.
Grasslands are vulnerable in the Appalachians. New research shows a path for conservation
The Cumberland Plateau’s ecology has been misunderstood. Conservations now have a plan to save its rare habitats.
Tennessee’s biodiverse Duck River wins protections against new landfills
The Duck River watershed will be protected from landfill development, marking a bipartisan conservation outcome.
Wetlands lost protections in Tennessee. Citizens can help keep developers accountable
The legislature passed a new law to cut protections on vulnerable wetlands — a type called isolated wetlands, which are connected to surface waterways like creeks and rivers through groundwater or ephemeral streams.
Tennessee protected 7,400 acres of ‘river swamp.’ The public will be able to visit.
The Nature Conservancy of Tennessee and partners acquired 7,400 acres of bottomland hardwood forest along the Hatchie River.
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