Turtles for the Rainforest

A plea from a turtle named Chuck Norris for you to save the Rainforest.

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Isabella Elmore

George Washington University

It belongs in a zoo(?)

This is a trailer for the full-length film below.

Nathan Kettler

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

The buzz about robotic bees

An extreme close up of a tiny robotic bee perched on the end of a toothpick.

Emma Saaty

George Washington University

Reinventing a sustainable crab fishery

An illustration showing a whale entangled by a crab fishing rope, with a small orange crab on the whale's underside, helping by snipping the rope.

Illustrations by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey.

Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

Planet Forward Correspondent | UC Berkeley

Thermal cooker helps reduce indoor air pollution, use of wood as fuel

A woman in a pink wrap and head covering looks at a brightly colored, round fabric-covered thermal cooker, with a lidded pot nestled inside. A woman on the right, with long black hair, reaches toward the pot.

Aisata Ibamie, right, a young renewable energy engineer and innovative clean energy activist from Cameroon, demonstrates how her ASAAB Thermal Cooker is used. (Photo courtesy Aisata Ibamie)

Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow

NelPlast: Transforming plastic waste into low-cost houses in Ghana

A man wearing a blue button-down shirt, with a white mask in his shirt pocket, tan pants, and a bright blue hardhat, stands in front of a large stack of primarily gray plastic bricks.

Nelson Boateng, founder and Chief Executive Officer of NelPlast Eco Ghana Limited, stands in front of some of his award-winning bricks made from recycled plastic. (Photo courtesy Nelson Boateng)

Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow

The magnetic force uniting two scientists: Finding more than love

A man and a woman sit close together on a beige couch holding a mid-sized dog with curly blonde fur.

Chris Tonge and Chanel La with their dog Chuckles in their Chicago home. (Courtesy of Chanel La)

Medill News Service

Northwestern University

International student’s idea to repurpose barns becomes agro-plastic recycling company

Garden bed with green sprouts covered by a dome of plastic sheeting.

A hoop house composed with plastic sheeting and tubes provides cover for a raised garden in Washington, DC. (Lance Cheung/USDA (Public Domain Mark 1.0))

Sara Wiatrak

University of Maryland

Composting: Turning college kids' trash into environmental treasure