Eli Chen
Eli Chen is the science and environment reporter at St. Louis Public Radio. She comes to St. Louis after covering the eroding Delaware coast, bat-friendly wind turbine technology, mouse love songs and various science stories for Delaware Public Media/WDDE-FM. Before that, she corralled robots and citizen scientists for the World Science Festival in New York City and spent a brief stint booking guests for Science Friday’s live events in 2013. Eli grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where a mixture of teen angst, a love for Ray Bradbury novels and the growing awareness about climate change propelled her to become the science storyteller she is today. When not working, Eli enjoys a solid bike ride, collects classic disco, watches standup comedy and is often found cuddling other people’s dogs. She has a bachelor’s in environmental sustainability and creative writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has a master’s degree in journalism, with a focus on science reporting, from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
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Like other doctors at the Washington University School of Medicine, she began to prepare herself in early March for the risks of treating patients who could be contagious with a dangerous virus that experts knew very little about. -
Advocates wanted a group advising the governor to acknowledge that climate change is making floods worse, but the words “climate change” did not appear in the final report. -
Cameras would allow families to document abuse or workers not taking precautions against the coronavirus. -
Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services will disclose the number of nursing homes, prisons and other facilities in each county that have at least two coronavirus cases. -
Health policy researchers have strongly recommended that state governments update their quarantine policies to protect individual rights. -
Missouri agriculture officials are struggling to address a backlog of complaints from farmers who allege that dicamba-based herbicide drift from another...
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An advisory group's recommendations to Gov. Mike Parson that state and federal agencies largely focus on repairing and strengthening levees will not do...
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When corn and soybean farmer Kenny Reichard stopped plowing some of his fields in northern Missouri in 1982, other farmers told him that it was a...
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Many insects that feed on Missouri oak trees could be threatened by climate change, according to a study from the University of Missouri-St. Louis....
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A group of amateur astronomers has planted devices around Missouri to measure how much artificial lighting brightens the night sky. The Missouri chapter...
