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An Asian elephant stands near the fence of its enclosure at the National Zoo in Washington DC. Asian elephants are the closest living relatives of wooly mammoths. Photo from 5/8/2019. (Skylar Epstein/George Washington University)
Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
One biotech startup claims it can use Asian elephants to breed “functional mammoths” that help fight climate change. The prospect of bringing genetic engineering technologies into the world of conservation raises complex moral questions.
Tags: climate change, elephants, mammoths, genetic engineering, wildlife conservation
Diwigdi Valiente says that many older Guna people don’t understand climate change, especially since they have lived traditional lives that contribute very little to the problem. (Alex Schwartz/Medill)
Northwestern University
Monday, May 14, 2018
Medill's Jessica Mordacq reports from Panama: The San Blas Islands and Kalu Yala are two very different environments in Panama that both revolve heavily around tourism.
Tags: climate change, kalu yala, study abroad, colonialism, tourism, ecotourism, panama
Photographed in the forests of Palawan, a Philippine pangolin pup nudges its mother, rolled up in a protective ball. (Gregg Yan/Creative Commons)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Pressuring governments to issue bans and closures of wet markets could prevent the emergence of infectious disease. But it does not solve the widespread issue of bushmeat circulation between hunters and their families.
Tags: coronavirus, bushmeat, conservation, wet market, wildlife, opinion, op-ed, public health
Uganda cob. (Pixabay)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent
Thursday, September 17, 2020
To prevent or at least forestall the next pandemic, we clearly have an obligation to examine and prevent the practices that promote close contact between humans and wildlife, particularly bushmeat hunting and deforestation.
Tags: conservation, covid-19, Uganda, tourism, Biodiversity, storyfest2021
Reusable "Simply Straws" for sale at Kahwa Coffee Roasting in St. Petersburg, Florida (Carter Weinhofer/Eckerd College).
Planet Forward Correspondent | Eckerd College
Monday, November 22, 2021
In the first piece in our "So Long, Single-Use?" series, St. Petersburg, Florida Councilmember Gina Driscoll said leading the way on single-use plastic started with "one simple object."
Tags: plastic straws, single use plastics, micro-plastic, plastic, florida
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Planet Forward Correspondent | Ithaca College
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
So Long, Single-Use? | There’s plenty of confusion and debate around plastic bans on both the political and practical level. It’s easy to get lost in the logistics of it all –– but, at the heart of it, there’s one question: Are bag laws effective?
Tags: plastic, plastic pollution, plastic bag bans, bag bans, so long single-use
Photo taken by Big Sur Land Trust volunteer coordinator Jose Carlos at ice plant pulling event at Martin Dunes, California, on Feb. 19, 2022. (Photo courtesy Jose Carlos)
Middlebury College
Friday, March 18, 2022
In the face of the widespread presence of the ice plant along hundreds of miles of coastline, is there any hope that the California coastal ecosystem could ever be returned to its natural state?
Tags: storyfest2022, invasive species, restoration
Sun-dried candlefish, also known as hooligan, eulachon, and oolichan. (Brodie Guy/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))
George Washington University
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Today, petroleum is one of Alaska's main exports, but the use of oil in the region goes back thousands of years to the Tlingit people's harvesting of lipid-dense and flammable candlefish. Can this history illuminate a way to a green-fueled future?
Tags: oil, energy, storyfest, Alaska, whaling, Indigenous Knowledge, astonishing alaska
Future 500
Saturday, October 03, 2020
There’s no denying that climate is a polarizing political issue. Here are 10 ideas on how environmentalists can beat the power brokers and save the planet.
Tags: Environment, climate change, Politics & Policy, bipartisanship, book, opinion
The New York City skyline. (Katherine Baker/Columbia University)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Cornell University
Friday, February 02, 2018
After the Paris Agreement withdrawal announcement, many cities and states vowed to commit to sustainability efforts despite the federal decision. New York City was among the cities to commit, but how is the Big Apple doing in terms of going green?