Eva Tesfaye covers the environment for WWNO’s Coastal Desk. Before joining WWNO, she reported for the Ag & Water Desk at Harvest Public Media, based at KCUR 89.3 in Kansas City, Missouri. She 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.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is a federal agency that helps farmers protect soil and water and fight climate change. Advocates say those goals are in jeopardy.
