JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Aug. 13 (TNSjou) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: * * * ETSU's Gray Fossil Site team unearths 5-million-year-old deer fossils Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum have discovered something surprisingly familiar among the site's exotic ancient tapirs and rhinos: the first fossil deer, representing one of the earliest records of the deer family in North America. The newly described fossils of Eocoileus gentryorum, detailed in the  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (TNSFR) -- Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage, Inc. (EGTS) filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build a pipeline and other facilities across parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Appalachian Reliability Project would include construction of 3.9 miles of 30-inch-diameter pipeline and the addition of compression at two existing compressor stations. The plan also calls for a meter and regulation station and modifications to two others. The proj  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 13 -- Nationwide Children's Hospital issued the following news release on Aug. 12, 2025: * * * Joe Burrow Foundation, Nationwide Children's Hospital Launch Mental Health Program for Schools in Appalachian Ohio The Burrow Blueprint delivers mental health training and support to school-based health center recipients of the state's Appalachian Children's Health Initiative. * (Athens, Ohio) - Today, the Joe Burrow Foundation and Nationwide Children's Hospital announced the   more

BOONE, North Carolina, Aug. 13 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Local residents, grassroots organizations call on North Carolina regulators to deny Mountain Valley Pipeline's water permit application for Southgate project * August 13, 2025 CONTACT Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, (276) 289-1018, dan@appvoices.org EDEN, N.C. -- On Tuesday, Aug. 12, community leaders, grassroots organizations and members of the public spoke out agai  more

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 14 (TNSjou) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news: * * * Deep heat beneath the United States traced to ancient rift with Greenland A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland and North America splitting apart 80 million years ago, according to new research led by the University of Southampton. The scientists argue it is not, as has long been believed, the result o  more