Featured Stories
Three Indigenous women load corn into a traditional pueblo bread oven during a corn roasting demonstration. (Darrien Benally)
Indigenous Correspondents Program | Northern Arizona University
Two Indigenous environmental professionals share how their work supports climate justice and is informed by their heritage.
Cherokee, North Carolina is part of the Blue Ridge Parkway and is home to the Great Smoky Mountains. This place is also known as the ancestral homelands of the ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ, or Cherokee people. (Raylen Bark)
Indigenous Correspondents Program | Dartmouth College
This photo essay explores the ways that knowledge of Indigenous plant gathering, harvesting, maintenance, and sovereignty have been passed down by the generations and practiced by my family.
Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | University of Arizona
Plastic pollution in rivers demands our attention more than ever. In this short film, I propose a return to self and a reconciliation with the natural world. Come with me to Tucson, Arizona, where we explore the world of reconciliation through art,... Read More
Illustrations by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey.
Planet Forward Correspondent | UC Berkeley
How three Indigenous teachers in California are fostering the future for native plants and educating others on how to build a reciprocal relationship with nature.
The Bridge of Dreams in Horcón, Chile. (Carter Weinhofer)
Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | Eckerd College
The geographically diverse country of Chile presents many different levels of environmental conservation, which can be inspiring when seen in one of the most remote places on Earth: Patagonia.
In Navajo stories, the coyote is a trickster and a teacher that disobeys normal rules and conventional behaviors. (Nadira Mitchell)
Indigenous Correspondents Program | University of Arizona
In this podcast, Nadira Mitchell, a Diné student studying natural resources and wildlife conservation, weaves an oral story about snails in the Sonoran desert, Diné culture, traditional ecological knowledge, and science.
(Mika Baumeister/Unsplash License)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University
In this podcast, Planet Forward Correspondent Katie Perkins chats with media psycholoigst Asheley Landrum, Ph.D., about science communication, conspiracy theories, and the power of awe.
Jordan Welch talks to her grandfather Charlie Payne on July 20 in Concordia. Charlie Payne purchased the Payne family’s land more than 60 years ago, and he still helps out in an advisory capacity on the farm. (Jia Wu/Columbia Missourian)
University of Missouri
Climate change is redrawing the agricultural map of the United States. As corn becomes less economically viable with changing Midwestern weather patterns, farmers look to a more diverse future.
Cerro Vista Farms in Northern New Mexico. (Eva Sideris)
Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
In this podcast, Daniel "Farmer Dan" Carmona shares his personal historical account of water, politics, underground rivers, and water witches!
The Accokeek Foundation has managed 200 acres of Piscataway Park since 1957. (Jing-ning Hsu)
George Washington University
Our current global food system leaves billions of people underfed or overweight and contributes to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Piscataway woman Anjela Barnes says it doesn't have to be this way.