Daniel Potter
Daniel Potter first started at Nashville Public Radio as an intern in 2008, and served for six years as an all-purpose reporter and occasional host. In 2014, he moved to California, where he freelanced for KQED Science in San Francisco, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and numerous others. In 2023, several of his episodes of the Bay Curious podcast appeared in the book of the same name. He’s also hosted and directed a podcast about bugs with the Natural History Museum of Utah. He returned to WPLN as a news editor in 2026.
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A federal appeals court has struck down part of a Tennessee anti-abortion law. Meanwhile, two nonprofits made moves this week to avoid cooperating with requests from the state’s attorney general for documents involving mail-order abortion pills. -
Since the passing of Tennessee icon Dolly Parton, officials from the Metro Council to Governor Bill Lee have been united: They all want to rename Nashville’s airport to honor the late country music legend and philanthropist. -
Hobby drones are becoming a new kind of headache for air traffic controllers. The future of drone traffic is such a big concern, NASA is already working on a system to manage it.
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New mandates in California will limit how much water graveyards can use to keep their grass green. The people who run cemeteries don't want crispy, parched grass to feel like an insult on top of loss.
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Desalination facilities are under construction across California that would make ocean water drinkable. Environmentalists debate whether more plants would only worsen long-term water issues.
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Julia Hoeh is a bat tracker. For $350 a week plus basic housing in rural Tennessee, she stays up long after midnight to affix radio trackers to bats and collect samples of their DNA.
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The artificial cave could house hundreds of thousands of bats, helping them escape a devastating infection called white-nose syndrome. As bats continue to die off, scientists are seeking quick and effective ways to protect them from an invasive fungus that grows naturally in caves.
