PFAS in Tennessee – An Emerging Concern for Water Quality with Erin Kanzig from River Network SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: You may never have heard […]
Farmland Under Threat SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: Across the United States, 11 million acres of farmland have been lost from 2001 to 2016. In Tennessee, […]
The Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky was devastated by extreme rainfall, flooding, and landslides in late July 2022. Portions of the flooding impacted the headwaters of the Cumberland River in […]
Hot in Here: Nashville’s Urban Heat Island, Impacts, and Mitigation Efforts SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: The Summer of 2022 is already the second hottest summer […]
Climate change is an ever growing concern here in Nashville and in the wider world. Despite the fact that it was older generations who set climate change in motion, youth […]
Going on the Offense with Regenerative Agriculture (featuring Mitchell Hora and Jeremiah Durbin) SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: Now more than ever, farmers are challenged with keeping […]
Announcing the Urban Heat Youth Fellows Program! The Cumberland River Compact is partnering with MTSU professors Dr. Adelle Monteblanco and Dr. Alisa Hass to offer the Urban Heat Youth Fellows […]
Subscribe to River Talks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google. Summary: Clean and abundant water is provided to communities across the United States by skilled and trained environmental professionals. Yet the water workforce […]
By Cumberland River Compact AmeriCorps Alumni, Morgan Florsheim Climate Change is “baked in”. In the past couple of years, “resilience” has become a real buzzword in the environmental and climate […]
Summary: Climate change comes with ample risks to Middle Tennessee, but there is also the opportunity to build resilience in the face of these changes. We know climate change […]