Reflective roofs can reduce energy bills and make urban areas livable. Roofing manufacturers have other priorities.

A new law repeals the state mandate for reflective roofs that are meant to lower temperatures and reduce energy costs.

A report from nonprofit news organization Floodlight looks at the local battles over cool roofs are heating up.

Once confined to “Tornado Alley” in Texas and Oklahoma, severe storms are now striking farther east in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. McIntyre attributes this shift to climate change ...

He covers topics related to weather, climate ... zone for Friday, encompassing parts of southwestern Illinois, southern Indiana, western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and northwestern Tennessee.

Hollie has reported extensively on both local and national crime trends as well as health, climate and education ... sits along the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ), an active area for ...

Earthquakes are not uncommon in the region. The Eastern Tennessee seismic zone is one of the most active in the Southeast and extends across parts of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Two tremors ...

These are further divided into 5°F half zones to provide more detailed guidance. For example: Maps generated by Climate Central show that as our climate has warmed due to heat-trapping carbon ...

With Tennessee's diverse landscape and climate, there are multiple different growing zones, or plant hardiness zones, in the Volunteer State. These zones, designated by the U.S. Department of ...

In January, the American Association of State Climatologists (AASC) recognized the Tennessee Climate Office, as it’s called, as the state’s official climate office. Previously, only the ...