Zaria Johnson
Reporter/ProducerZaria Johnson is a reporter/producer at Ideastream Public Media covering the environment.
She is a Cleveland native and 2022 graduate of Kent State University. Previously, she interned with The Columbus Dispatch, The Land and Akron Life Magazine. Prior to graduation she worked as editor-in-chief of Kent State's student publications The Kent Stater/KentWired and UHURU Magazine.
She is passionate about community engagement and community-based reporting, especially on topics relating to the environment and marginalized communities.
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The damage was uneven across the Lake County campus, which also lost electricity. Some of the trees lost are estimated to be around 100 years old. -
The Oberlin Food Hub facilitates a supportive network of Ohio's small and midsized farmers to connect them with customers while delivering fresh produce to communities in need. -
More solar power is on the way to Northeast Ohio with the cities of Painesville and Cleveland and Cuyahoga County sharing in more than $129 million in federal funding for renewable energy. -
President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race Sunday, prompting response from Northeast Ohio's elected officials. -
Cleveland's collaborative Community Forestry Corps Program will use heat sensors to monitor the difference in temperatures in both areas with tree canopy and areas without to better inform ongoing canopy expansion efforts. -
The National Weather Service reported a six-day heatwave in Northeast Ohio with temperatures at 90 degrees or hotter. But an drier spring on average contributes to the hot summer temperatures, and is beginning to create its own challenges. -
Suspected lead-based paint and asbestos-containing material discovered at ACCEL charter schools in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, must be investigated and remediated before the EPA's August deadline. -
As work continues to alleviate the impact of decades of industrial waste and pollution on the Cuyahoga River, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer Districts is beginning to tackle the emerging threat from stormwater runoff. -
The $19.5 million federal grant is the largest ever awarded to the Cleveland Metroparks, and will support new trail connections in the Slavic Village and Union-Miles neighborhood. -
There had been repeated fires on the Cuyahoga River over the decades, but national coverage of a 1969 blaze sparked a movement that led to efforts to clean up the Cuyahoga and ultimately passage of the Clean Water Act.
