Meredith Rizzo

Jun 23, 2023 | npr.org | Geoff Brumfiel |Meredith Rizzo

NPR correspondent Geoff Brumfiel boards the NS Savannah, a nuclear passenger ship built in the late 1950s as part of a U.S. program to illustrate the positive uses of nuclear energy. Meredith Rizzo for NPR hide caption toggle caption Meredith Rizzo for NPR NPR correspondent Geoff Brumfiel boards the NS Savannah, a nuclear passenger ship built in the late 1950s as part of a U.S. program to illustrate the positive uses of nuclear energy.

Apr 25, 2023 | kpbs.org | Pien Huang |Meredith Rizzo

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The best time of day to collect a wastewater sample is in the morning. That's according to Raul Gonzalez, an environmental scientist who's an expert on how people's hygiene habits intersect with the flow of sewage. Gonzalez runs the wastewater surveillance program at the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, a Virginia Beach, Va., sewage treatment operation that processes waste for 20% of the state's population.

Apr 23, 2023 | npr.org | Pien Huang |Meredith Rizzo

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The best time of day to collect a wastewater sample is in the morning. That's according to Raul Gonzalez, an environmental scientist who's an expert on how people's hygiene habits intersect with the flow of sewage. Gonzalez runs the wastewater surveillance program at the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, a Virginia Beach, Va., sewage treatment operation that processes waste for 20% of the state's population.

Feb 10, 2023 | npr.org | Geoff Brumfiel |Connie Hanzhang Jin |Jacob Fenton |Meredith Rizzo |Julian Hayda

Dropping water levels in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine have exposed fishing nets and roots of aquatic plants along the shoreline of the Dnipro river. Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images Dropping water levels in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine have exposed fishing nets and roots of aquatic plants along the shoreline of the Dnipro river.

Feb 10, 2023 | wbur.org | Geoff Brumfiel |Connie Hanzhang Jin |Jacob Fenton |Meredith Rizzo |Julian Hayda

Satellite data show water levels plummeting at the massive Kakhovka Reservoir. The reservoir supplies drinking water, irrigates vast tracts of farmland, and cools Europe's largest nuclear plant.