Colleges & Education
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SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
This podcast discusses how young people can get involved in environmental sustainability efforts earlier in their lives and how education systems should be altered in order to allow for and promote environmental learning.
University of Connecticut
Ecologists and statisticians have collaborated to develop a new tracking model that accounts for feline predators' resting periods.
Chicago's skyline at sunrise. (Brad Knight/Unsplash License)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Northwestern University
In this Q&A, Chicago environmental organizer Dany Robles talks about how the Illinois Green New Deal Coalition pushes for an intersectional environmental agenda.
An example of the "tarpon tag" license plate. For $17 a year, Florida residents can have this specialty license plate which funds dozens of community projects every year. (Carter Weinhofer/Eckerd College)
Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | Eckerd College
What effect can a cool license plate have on your local ecosystem? In the Tampa Bay area, simply purchasing a specialty license plate, adorned in the iconic tarpon, funds dozens of projects annually through the Tampa Bay Estuary Program.
Each basketball season, UConn's Office of Sustainability and UConn Athletics partner to host a Green Game Day at Gampel Pavilion to promote recycling and engage with the community. (Maggie Singman)
University of Connecticut
How the world of athletics can lead the charge in addressing climate change at the game day level and beyond.
University of Connecticut
Scientists express concerns that an often fatal disease infecting Connecticut's domestic rabbit population may spread to the species' wild counterparts and have disastrous consequences.
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George Washington University
An invasive fungal pathogen is killing amphibians and sweeping across the Americas. A greater policy response is urgently needed in the United States to address this epidemic and to protect biodiversity.
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George Washington University
Extreme heat is affecting our bodies in subtle ways. Here's how mental and physical health will be afflicted as the planet heats up.
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The south end of Otisco Lake, looking north on September 10, 2022. (Adam McIntyre)
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Zebra muscles are an invasive species that pose many risks for the ecological health of Otisco Lake in upstate New York, but they might be here to stay.
Hewlett, NY is the home of one of the nation's many superfund sites, the Peninsula Boulevard Groundwater Plume. Superfunds are areas where the EPA has determined that the release of toxic wastes has necessitated emergency clean up actions. (DanTD/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Hewlett, NY, located on Long Island, is the home of the Peninsula Boulevard Groundwater Plume, a toxic waste clean-up project that is urgently underway.