Caroline Eggers
Environmental Reporter at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)
Environmental reporter for @WPLN. I also photograph critters and clouds.
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1 week ago |
wpln.org | Caroline Eggers
Downtown Nashville is now officially designated as an outdoor library for trees. The “Nashville Downtown Arboretum” boasts more than 50 tree species along sidewalks, boulevards and parks in the heart of the city. Each species, like the overcup oak and sweetbay magnolia, has been mapped, and a small portion of the more than 3,000 trees are marked with QR codes to provide more information for passersby.
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2 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Caroline Eggers
Earth is nearing critical thresholds with record heat. But scientific data on how warming will impact the people, environment and economy in the U.S. may become harder to access. In the past few months, the Trump administration has dismantled many programs and resources related to climate change — and even purged the phrase “climate crisis” from federal websites. One recent target is the nation’s biggest climate report.
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3 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Caroline Eggers
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week that it will no longer track the nation’s costliest storms. For more than four decades, NOAA has provided a public tool to examine the cost of weather and climate events: a database of “billion-dollar disasters,” which are disasters that cost at least $1 billion in damages. Between 1980 and 2024, Tennessee residents endured at least part of 116 separate billion-dollar disasters.
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1 month ago |
wkms.org | Caroline Eggers
Rural communities in Appalachia have struggled to transition to clean transportation. But rural residents might stand to benefit more than their urban counterparts by switching to electric vehicles. This idea is the basis for a project led by researchers at Tennessee Tech called “Rural Reimagined.” The central goal of the project is to speed vehicle electrification across most of Appalachia, including parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
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1 month ago |
wpln.org | Caroline Eggers
Rural communities in Appalachia have struggled to transition to clean transportation. But rural residents might stand to benefit more than their urban counterparts by switching to electric vehicles. This idea is the basis for a project led by researchers at Tennessee Tech called “Rural Reimagined.” The central goal of the project is to speed vehicle electrification across most of Appalachia, including parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
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