Colleges & Education
Listening to live or recorded natural sound can connect us and provide valuable information about the state of our environment. (Chris Zatarain)
Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Arizona
In this audio story, I talk with Laura Giannone, a field recording artist and acoustic ecology technician who uses sound in her creative work and as a way to aid in several conservation efforts.
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Has Onondaga Lake, formerly the most polluted lake in the nation, really been cleaned up?
Jesmond Sammut, pictured center-right, in Papua New Guinea with members of the Bihute Fish for Prisons program. (Photo courtesy of Jesmond Sammut)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Middlebury College
In this audio story, University of New South Wales Professor Jesmond Sammut explains the transformative power of his aquaculture and fish farming research in Papua New Guinea.
(Photo by Jonathan Lavan)
George Washington University
How will rising marine temperatures in the Gulf of Maine affect lobstering, my community's culture, and my state's economy?
An ancient old-growth redwood forest along California's northern coast. Changes to forestation on the West Coast may have downstream effects on temperatures and precipitation in the Mississippi River Basin. (Halley Hughes)
Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | University of Arizona
In this podcast, I chat with Jose Soto, Ph.D. about his work in Ecoclimate Teleconnections and the importance of communicating complex scientific ideas to a wider audience.
A pick-up truck drives through a flooded intersection during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (Jill Carlson/Attribution 2.0 Generic)
The George Washington University
I used to celebrate flash floods as signals of sleeping in and days off from school. Now, I fear the next Hurricane Harvey.
Maze-goers walk through the entrance of the At’l Do Farms maze made up of seven different crops designed to reduce the amount of water required to grow in a drought-stricken West Texas landscape. (Katie Perkins)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University
How one West Texas family created a sustainable and drought-tolerant crop maze to save a beloved fall tradition from drying out.
George Washington University
Robotic bees are being developed to study buzz pollination and help support the conservation of declining bee populations across the globe.
Greenland's ice sheet is slowly melting. Several sought-after resources are becoming increasingly available as a result. (Mia Rosenblatt)
George Washington University
As the vast Greenland Ice Sheet melts, mining for heavy metals, withdrawals of sediment, and the use of Northern trade routes may expand.
Co-owners of Main Street Farms, Bob Cat (left) and Allan Gandelman (right) hold up produce at their farm in upstate New York. (Courtesy of Main Street Farms)
Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
How an organic farm and a nonprofit health coalition in Cortland, N.Y., are partnering to implement a system of prescription foods to serve people with low incomes in their community.