glaciers

Reflections from an expedition: Delaney Graham

(Victoria Middleton/Planet Forward)

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

Storyfest 2022 winner Delaney Graham reflects on the scale of Alaska — and how that grand size helped put things into perspective.

Building a different kind of wall

Alaska mountain landscape with glacier in foreground

We will need innovative thinking to keep beautiful glaciers like this one around. (Ashley Gallagher/George Washington University)

Ashley Gallagher

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

A team of engineers have big plans to prevent the collapse of the world's ice sheets — and it could be the largest civil engineering project ever attempted.

Robert Swan's Ganges River Expedition: "Don't ask others to do what you’re not willing to do yourself"

Robert Swan

2041

Explorer and friend of Planet Forward's, Robert Swan, travels to the mouth of the Ganges River to see--first hand--the state of the glacier that supplies water for 400 million people. How can we help solve this looming crisis? Watch

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With book in hand: Continuing the work of Lovejoy and Wilson in the heart of DC

Joel I. Cohen

Visiting Scholar, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

How the next generation of naturalists can celebrate and protect the biodiversity of the canal that became a park in the heart of Washington, D.C.

Food Rescuers: Food recovery in the capital

Jelina Liu

George Washington University

In this mini-documentary, Planet Forward Comcast Sustainable Storytelling Fellow Jelina Liu provides a look into the extensive food recovery network in the United States' capital, Washington, D.C.

Restricted water flow and nutrient pollution threaten southwest Florida’s mangrove forests

Medill News Service

Northwestern University

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.

Essay | American conservation is missing the point

Belle Long

George Washington University

Patterns of U.S. land protection prioritize the great landscapes of the West over species richness or biodiversity, which are largely concentrated in the Southeast.