The View Over There

Victoria Riess interviews Europeans in London to get their take on the environment

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sustainability, climate change, Environment, planet forward, europe, London, United Kingdom

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An area between a building and a field that is filled with landscaped plants, trees, and bushes that dips down to collect rainwater.

A bioswale is an aesthetically pleasing green infrastructure option that captures rainwater and runoff that can also be used to create habitats for native species, birds, or other plants; they can also filter out pollutants as they capture water. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mia Rosenblatt

George Washington University

This is my food justice

Shirley Chen

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

Guyana: A country hanging in the balance

An aerial view of Kaieteur Falls, the world's largest single-drop waterfall, located in Guyana. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0)

Michael Khan

George Washington University

The crisis affecting small farms and their farmers: Mental health in agricultural circles

A woman steps over a large tarp covering crop land at a small farm.

Diane Dorfer on her farm. (Zareen Reza/University of Connecticut)

Zareen Reza

University of Connecticut

Eco-Fiction | A road trip through the end of the world

A poster board on a white wall filled with print outs of text next to colorful pictures.

Storyboard by Abby Baumgard.

Abigail Baumgard

Eckerd College

After Hurricane Ian, sowing hope

Two men work to rebuild the broken roof on an animal shelter.

Robert McMahon, Southern Fresh Farms owner, and friend Jake Stevens rebuild the roof that shelters animals on the Fort Myers farm on Oct. 8. The wooden roof had collapsed as Hurricane Ian tore through. (Florida Climate Institute/Katie Delk)

Katie Delk

University of Florida

Indigenous plant sovereignty and Cherokee culture

A wide expanse of mountains behind a line of trees and a grassy meadow.

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)

Raylen Bark

Indigenous Correspondents Program | Dartmouth College

Antarctica is collapsing – what can we do?

A woman in a blue jacket stands on a snowy ship deck in Antarctica

Breathing in the peace and stillness during our first evening in Antarctica. (Courtesy of Agam Dhingra)

Libby Mohn

Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Eco-Fiction | The last whale out to sea

A monochromatic water color of a humpback whale on a sheet of paper.

"Whale in Water Color" by Alexa Knoll.

Alexa Knoll

Harvard University

Eco-Fiction: Divided Through Rise

An illustrated poster board that features drawing of two people against a backdrop of sky, land, and water

A movie poster that depicts our book idea, "Divided Through Rise." It shows the two main characters, Ripley and Atmus, and shows the three different environments in which people in the story live.

Payton Beaver

Eckerd College