In this week’s Ask the Memphian, we’ll tell you where you can go swimming or splashing for free as the temperatures heat up, ...

Sand, silt and clay is essential to rebuilding — or, at this point, maintaining — the fragile coastline that has been ...

The state Department of Environment Quality list of lakes showing elevated levels of mercury in fish increased to 54 this year and the department is scheduling a public hearing to talk about it.

Pollution from human activities has pumped increasing amounts of mercury into the atmosphere, and for reasons that are not well understood, the Arctic region has significantly higher levels of ...

Lake Erie water levels are currently rising and expected to continue rising for the next six months. March 2025 levels were near the long-term average, below the 2020 high, and above the 1934 low.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Two Memphis high school students died when gunfire erupted in South Memphis Thursday afternoon, according to Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS). "MSCS said the two students ...

cutting electricity for thousands of people Sunday in the upper Great Lakes region, while forecasters said severe weather was on its way to Tennessee. Winds topping 70 mph (112 kph) were possible ...

the water levels in Lake Erie reached a high level of 571.56 feet and a low level of 571.13 feet. In February, Lake Erie was at a minimum water level of 571.00 feet and a maximum level of 571.23 feet.

In December, the water levels in Lake Erie reached a high level of 571.56 feet and a low level of 571 feet. In the next six months, the water levels in Lake Erie are projected to increase slightly.

A new study has found another negative effect of invasive zebra mussels in lakes: higher levels of mercury in fish. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, the U.S. Geological Survey and ...

The Tennessee high school football regular season wraps up with Week 11 on Thursday and Friday across the state. Here are the scores from the eleventh week of the 2024 TSSAA football season.

Pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to high levels of methylmercury, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "Mercury is definitely a neurotoxin. It is toxic to the ...