New Ideas

Introducing our 2021 FAO Summer Storytelling Fellows

Staff fill boxes with food at Pittsburgh area food bank

As the need for food continued to grow during the pandemic, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank called on the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and opened an additional, temporary food box packing site. Food access, food security, nutrition, and environmental justice challenges are among the topics our fellows will explore in their stories this summer. (Melissa Murray/Creative Commons)

Frank Sesno

Founder and Chief Executive, Planet Forward

Four students will produce stories at the nexus of food security, agriculture, and nutrition, and work under the guidance of GW’s National Geographic Professor of Science Communication, Lisa Palmer.

Five ways to make climate change relevant to your audience

Wild fire and smoke eclipse an expanse of forest.

(NPS Climate Change Response/Flickr)

Danielle Moore

University of Rhode Island

Climate change affects us all in different ways. Here are five tips to reach your audience most directly.

Apex predators and armchair research: Citizen science for shark conservation

White shark swims amongst a school of fish.

(Terry Goss/Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_shark.jpg)

Abby Wallace

George Washington University

Marine scientists are using information collected by everyday people to monitor sharks in the face of climate change.

Peril & Promise: The new EPA Administrator is leading with environmental justice

Frank Sesno

Founder and Chief Executive, Planet Forward

Environmental justice has a seat at the head table with new EPA Administrator Michael Regan, in our latest episode of Peril & Promise.

How to engage the audience when reporting on climate change

2021 Planet Forward Summit host Frank Sesno in conversation with NBC’s Today Show weatherman Al Roker.

Abby Wallace

George Washington University

Here are five methods to make climate change more relevant to your audience from the guest speakers at the 2021 Planet Forward Summit.

Biden’s plan to preserve 30% of U.S. land by 2030

White tailed deer stands on beach in Fire Island National Seashore. (Skylar Epstein/George Washington University)

Skylar Epstein

George Washington University

If this goal is met it could help address the twin ecological catastrophes of our time, the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis — but only with the proper implementation.

Scientists discover the infectious source of a lethal brain disease killing eagles

(Andy Morffew/Creative Commons 2.0)

Abby Wallace

George Washington University

Scientists recently identified an infectious cyanobacterium as the origin of vacuolar myelinopathy, a lethal neurological disease in wildlife.

‘It feels more honest’: Looking at Indigenous agricultural practices in research and in the classroom

Molly DeVore

The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Old Mason jars filled with heritage corn and tins of commercial tobacco are what planted the initial idea for the Goldman Lab’s Inter-Tribal Seed Stewardship Initiative.

5 approaches to better environmental storytelling