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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))
University of Maryland
Thursday, March 24, 2022
University of Maryland international Ph.D. student Krisztina Christmon launched her award-winning idea of repurposing farm plastic as part of a university innovation challenge in 2020. One year later, she serves as CEO of Repurpose Farm Plastic LLC.
Tags: storyfest2022, plastic, agriculture, innovation
Decker Woods and Sophia Cooper exchange farming tips in Big Muddy Farms’ biggest plot, July 6, 2021 (Photo by Jules Struck).
Planet Forward FAO Fellow | Emerson College
Friday, September 03, 2021
Big Muddy Urban Farm minimizes some of the financial barriers that keep potential farmers from entering the industry, like low profit.
Tags: sustainability, urban farming, agriculture, food desert, FAO Fellows 2021
The UN-FAO reports 26% of the planet’s ice-free land is used for livestock grazing. (Ryan Thompson/U.S. Department of Agriculture)
State University College at Buffalo
Monday, September 25, 2017
It ain't pretty: Our food consumption habits are devastating the planet and contributing to world hunger. What can we do about it?
Tags: food, global hunger, global warming, livestock, industry, pollution, methane, agriculture, consumption
Northwestern University
Friday, March 05, 2021
Emily Little and Marisa Sloan report on the work Fermilab is doing, exploring quantum computing as a means of sustainability research.
Tags: sustainability, Technology, quantum computing, research, storyfest2021
(From left to right) Eva Kotobuki Sideris, Frank Sesno, Hannah Krantz, Adam Goldberg, Vidya Muthupillai, and Dr. Imani Cheers.
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Friday, September 23, 2022
A select group of students from several universities recently traveled to McGinley Ranch in Nebraska to study and report on regenerative agriculture, land management practices, and sustainable bison ranching.
Volunteers plant mangrove saplings to help restore the canopy at Benedict Key. (Sarah Anderson/MEDILL)
Northwestern University
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Volunteers helping in recovery at Benedict Key aim to build up an oyster reef to shield the fledgling mangroves from destructive waves, Sarah Anderson reports.
Tags: mangroves, hydrology, eutrophication, sea level rise
George Washington University
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Prof. Sabrina McCormick has lived the impacts of a contaminated environment and now she tells the stories of environmental disasters of the present and future.
Tags: household chemical contamination, climate adaptation, Hollywood, Entertainment, public health, GWU, SPHHS, deepwater horizon, BP oil spill
SCCF shorebird biologist Audrey Albrecht (left) and shorebird intern Elsa Wilson (right) survey shorebirds near Bowman’s Beach. (Sarah Anderson/MEDILL)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
"By participating in shorebird, wading bird and colonial nesting bird surveys, I learned that birds face many more threats than they pose," Sarah Anderson writes.
Tags: birds, endangered and threatened species, migration, nesting, climate change, red tide, pollution
Northern White Sand mine, North Utica, Illinois. Aerial images taken with the assistance of the non-profit pilot collaborative LightHawk. (Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance, June 2016)
Northwestern University
Monday, November 27, 2017
Farmers in Illinois are fighting in an ongoing lawsuit to stop a proposed sand mine that would be built close to their land.
Tags: lawsuit, lasalle county, agriculture, water conservation, sand mining, fracking
Darryl Fears is a Washington Post environmental reporter and 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner. (Photo illustration with photo courtesy Darryl Fears)
The George Washington University
Friday, August 28, 2020
Darryl Fears, a veteran Washington Post reporter who has been covering the environment for the past decade, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning work, and offers insight on the issue of racism in both newsrooms and conservation.