Shahla Farzan
Science Podcast Editor | American Public MediaShahla Farzan is a PhD ecologist and science podcast editor at American Public Media.
Before her stint at St. Louis Public Radio as a reporter, Farzan worked at KBBI Public Radio in Homer, Alaska. She also spent six years studying native bees, eventually earning her PhD in ecology from the University of California-Davis.
In 2020, Farzan joined APM Reports’ Public Media Accountability Initiative, a team of investigative reporters and editors working to expose neglect, injustice and abuse among powerful people and organizations. Her work for St. Louis Public Radio on drug overdoses in Missouri prisons won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
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Missouri and Illinois are among dozens of states that have yet to submit plans for improving air quality in protected areas. Environmental nonprofits are suing the EPA to compel the agency to take action. -
St. Louis County is also considering how to spend federal coronavirus relief money. County Executive Sam Page outlined some proposed plans Monday. -
About half of all people released from prison in Missouri return within five years. But decades of research has shown prison education programs can help break the cycle. -
The BA.2 subvariant is about 30% more transmissible than the original omicron variant and is fueling a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Europe. -
Historian Katie Moon describes notable women who shaped St. Louis history. -
Women are more likely to work in lower-paying jobs that don't offer benefits, such as paid family leave or flexible hours. -
Some farmers and environmentalists say the federal program, which is heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, discourages growers from adapting to climate change and should be redesigned. -
St. Louis Public Schools will no longer require students and workers to wear masks beginning Monday. -
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, concentrations of a harmful air pollutant dropped by more than 30% on average worldwide, Washington University researchers have found. -
Under a newly revised agreement, Bi-State Development Agency is required to operate the trolley four days a week through June 2025 — but will not be financially responsible for the project. -
Through a combination of quiet singing and gentle touch, music therapy can help ease stress for premature infants. -
In Missouri, winters are about 4 degrees hotter on average than in 1970 — and farmers are starting to feel the effects.
