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Like many large corporations, Google has made numerous claims about their environmental sustainability and mitigation efforts. (geralt/Pixabay)
Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Like many corporations, Google has made numerous claims about their environmental sustainability and mitigation efforts. In order to examine their validity, I interviewed a current Google employee about this topic and conducted my own research.
Tags: corporate sustainability, tech, Policy, business, storyfest2022
Wil Burns speaks at the Negative Emissions Workshop at George Washington University. (Marija Stefanovic/GWU)
State University College at Buffalo
Monday, December 11, 2017
Wil Burns is an expert in the field of environmental policy, with a research focus of climate geoengineering governance. Planet Forward sat down with Burns to discuss the Paris Climate Agreement and other climate change policies.
Tags: expert voices, Policy, politics, Paris Climate Agreement, trump administration, research
How are college students handling the transition to all e-learning? Six students at SUNY Plattsburgh provided an update.
SUNY Plattsburgh
Thursday, April 09, 2020
SUNY Plattsburgh professor Curt Gervich interviewed six environmental science and studies students to find out how they are adapting to college life in the time of COVID-19 — and what we can learn from their experiences.
Tags: education, coronavirus, covid-19, social distancing, Technology, Environment, mental health, public health
National Geographic and Planet Forward
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
This post originally appeared on the Great Energy Challenge blog, in partnership with National Geographic and Planet Forward.
Mountains near Glacier Bay National Park in southern Alaska. (Photos by Katherine Baker/Columbia University)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Cornell University
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Next in our Alaska series: Climate change isn’t just seen – it’s felt. Weather and temperature fluctuations aside, many experience health impacts caused or exacerbated by climate change.
Tags: Storyfest 2018, storyfest winner, Alaska, Lindblad Expeditions, health, climate change
A tractor sits idle on Eric Schreiner's family farm. Schreiner Farms grows tomatoes for The Morning Star Company, which produces products for companies like Campbell's and Heinz. (Brigit Kenney/Eckerd College)
Eckerd College
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
In the next story in our Tackling Food Waste series, Eckerd College student Brigit Kenney looks at the broad connection between food production to actually getting that food on our plates. It's a much larger process than she expected to see.
Tags: woodland, davis, pfincali, agriculture, sustainable agriculture, consumers, Farm To Table, food processing waste, storyfest2019
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
(Alan Vernon/flickr)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Ithaca College
Friday, September 16, 2022
HappyWhale, a website created in 2015, uses a unique algorithm to identify and track humpback whales. It relies on photographs from ordinary people to further scientific research.
Tags: astonishing alaska, Alaska, Humpback Whales, HappyWhale, Lindblad Expeditions, national geographic, storyfest2022
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.