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Ape Action Africa: Guardians of Cameroon’s primate legacy
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Notre Dame University

Ape Action Africa: Guardians of Cameroon’s primate legacy
Fighting rampant bird collisions with rescues and simple window modifications in Chicago
Astry Rodriguez

Planet Forward Correspondent | Northwestern University

Fighting rampant bird collisions with rescues and simple window modifications in Chicago
Youth advocates rally together as whaling resumes off the coast of Iceland
Emma Montgomery & Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

Youth advocates rally together as whaling resumes off the coast of Iceland
Transforming Iceland | How stories inspired 60 years of preservation on Iceland’s youngest island
Gabe Allen

University of Colorado Boulder

Transforming Iceland | How stories inspired 60 years of preservation on Iceland’s youngest island
The Revolution Wind Farm is blowing away fossil fuel dependence, but effects on marine life remain a concern
Samuel Timms

University of Connecticut

The Revolution Wind Farm is blowing away fossil fuel dependence, but effects on marine life remain a concern
The last straw: Northwestern University students weigh in on consumer plastic pollution
Medill News Service

Northwestern University

The last straw: Northwestern University students weigh in on consumer plastic pollution
Justice takes root: Evanston, Illinois, activists tackle disparities in tree coverage across the city
Joyce Li

Northwestern University

Justice takes root: Evanston, Illinois, activists tackle disparities in tree coverage across the city
Reflections from Iceland | Halley Hughes
Halley Hughes

Planet Forward Alum | University of Arizona

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Reflections from Iceland | Vidya Muthupillai
Vidya Muthupillai

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

Essay | Pandora’s Matchbox: How colonialism and misunderstanding tarnished Yosemite
Melissa Deng

UCLA School of Law

Essay | Wild rice farming in Northern California: Finding sustainability for a notoriously unsustainable crop
Julia Paige-Carter

Planet Forward Correspondent | Arizona State University

What we can learn from New Zealand’s efforts to limit the spread of a harmful tree pathogen
Joshua Rosenstein

Planet Forward Correspondent | Middlebury College

This spring, a changing environment for Rock Creek Park’s songbirds
Sophie Kahler

Social Media Manager | Planet Forward

A small brown and white bird sits on a branch
Kids can do it too: How a children’s book can inspire community-based action for the environment
Maria Zaharatos

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies

An illustration of three people bending down near a stream to pick up trash.
In defense of native plants
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | University of California, Berkeley

An illustration of an acorn artfully sprouting different kinds of leaves.
Takeaways from COP27: Multilateral approaches to addressing ocean acidification
Claire Lee

University of Connecticut

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