Eva Tesfaye
Coastal Desk ReporterEva Tesfaye covers the environment for WWNO's Coastal Desk. You can reach her at eva@wrkf.org.
Before joining WWNO, she reported for Harvest Public Media and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. She was based at KCUR 89.3 in Kansas City, Missouri where she covered agriculture, food and the environment across the Mississippi River Basin.
Eva was also a producer for NPR's daily science podcast Short Wave. A graduate of Columbia University, she started her journalism career as an NPR Kroc Fellow.
She grew up moving around Africa and has lived in Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa and Kenya.
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People living in Louisiana’s petrochemical corridor say they’re worried about air pollution under the Trump administration. The EPA says companies can request presidential exemptions from Clean Air Act rules. -
Fifty-seven percent of the city’s residents support a stormwater fee to maintain the city’s drainage system, according to a survey from New-Orleans based nonprofit, the Water Collaborative. -
While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The growing Wax Lake Delta provided data for the now-stalled Mid-Barataria sediment diversion, which is designed to rebuild wetlands in nine parishes along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. -
The City of New Orleans has pushed back the opening of Lincoln Beach in New Orleans East to 2026. Residents of New Orleans East and advocates for the project are frustrated with the delay. -
The rule, finalized last year, would also protect taxpayers from shouldering the cost. The states suing, however,, say it will crush independent oil companies. -
The City of New Orleans received almost $140 million under the Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump Administration has paused that funding. -
More and more Americans face the threat of flooding. And as a country, we are woefully unprepared. FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) sells about 90% of the nation's flood insurance policies, but only a small percentage of Americans are covered. In an effort to account for climate change, expand coverage, and make the NFIP more "fair," FEMA recently overhauled its flood insurance program. It's called Risk Rating 2.0, and the sweeping changes are proving to be highly controversial. -
As 2024 comes to a close, we are taking this time to focus on hope. While this year has been rough for the climate and the environment in many ways, there is also so much good happening out there. There are wins to celebrate and reasons for optimism. Today, Sea Change sits down with an expert on hope, and learn why evidence-based hope is essential in our fight against climate change. -
Property owners in Dulac, La. have returned sacred land to the United Houma Nation. -
The Lemon Tree Mound is a sacred place for the Atakapa/Ishak-Chawasha tribe. And it's disappearing under the rising waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In this episode, we travel out into the bayous of South Louisiana to understand what this one small sacred place means for the Land Back Movement and climate justice, and why efforts to save our coast matter, even if they really mean only buying time.
