Steve Newborn
Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.
He’s been with WUSF since 2001, and has covered events such as President George W. Bush’s speech in Sarasota as the Sept. 11 attacks unfolded; the ongoing drama over whether the feeding tube should be removed from Terri Schiavo; the arrest and terrorism trial of USF professor Sami Al-Arian; how the BP Deepwater Horizon spill affected Florida; and he followed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition through the state - twice.
Before joining WUSF, he covered environmental and Polk County news for the Tampa Tribune and worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during the early days of the space shuttle.
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But he backs moves by cities and states to regulate large-scale data centers to protect their water supply and keep electricity bills from going up further. -
It's one thing to talk about the degradation of our natural environment. It's another to see how it has progressed over time. We take a trip to the Chassahowitzka River to look at how photographs have been a witness to change over several decades. -
Florida's coral reef has been beset by warming seas and rampaging disease. Now, one study has found coral resistant to one of the deadliest diseases ever recorded. -
It has taken eight years to get federal approval for the demonstration project. But it could be a while before the pens are constructed in the Gulf. -
No new money will flow into the state's premier land conservation program this upcoming fiscal year — three years after lawmakers committed to spending a minimum of $100 million a year. They're set to vote on the budget today. -
Some college students are getting their hands dirty doing research into some of our closest — yet in some ways still mysterious — aquatic neighbors. We join them as they tag stingrays and sharks off the Pinellas County coast. -
The move comes after a video of a fishing boat off the Panhandle hauling aboard an exhausted manta ray went viral. -
A new count shows increased numbers of mother-calf pairs in the Atlantic, but their total numbers are still less than 400. -
It's the largest preserved area in the fastest growing parts of the state. But despite being sandwiched between two large cities, few people have heard of it. Come along on a three-day trek to learn more. -
The lawsuit claims the federal government disregarded requirements to allow public hearings and let the public comment on the ruling.
