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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Voters will choose a member of the Board of Supervisors for the Crescent Soil and Water Conservation District for the first time in the district’s history. -
Community groups are suing the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality over a new law that could prevent them from publicly sharing their air monitoring data. -
Sea Change hosted a live event at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. The evening featured a concert with Louis Michot and special guests, and a fascinating conversation with musicians and scientists about the future of coastal Louisiana. -
Residents fighting against pollution from a nearby petrochemical plant are both relieved and disappointed after it suspended production. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated a $400,000 grant that would have expanded composting in New Orleans. It’s the first grant received by the city’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability that’s been cancelled. -
What can the fascinating field of ocean forecasting tell us about the future for us on land and for life under the sea? -
An 83-year-old well is gushing a mixture of oil and gas into the coastal marshes of Plaquemines Parish. The United States Coast Guard ramped up efforts to contain it on Thursday.
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Nearly a dozen bills about carbon capture and storage have gone before the Senate Natural Resources Committee. Only one passed. -
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.
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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.
