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Essay | Why you should ask, “Why?”: Rachel Carson and the modern scientist
Oliver Heuschele

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

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Jenna Outcalt

Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Connecticut

Curiosity and connection: Writer Ben Goldfarb on finding his environmental communication path
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Maggie Rhoads

Planet Forward Editorial Assistant | George Washington University

Inside the fight to reframe climate messaging under Trump rollbacks with David Di Martino
Changes by the sea: What we can learn from estuaries
Shaniya Utamidata

Planet Forward Correspondent | Rutgers University

Translating a foreign landscape: Reflections from Patagonia
Will Hinkle

Middlebury College

Translating a foreign landscape: Reflections from Patagonia
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Carlotta Gessler

Brown University / Middlebury School of the Environment

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Clair Sapilewski

American University

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Evan Leong

Rutgers University

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Corey M. Ray

East Tennessee State University

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Cameron Armendariz

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | School of Freshwater Sciences

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Emma Holm-Olsen

Middlebury College, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

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Nicole Pilsbury

University of Maryland, College Park

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Russell Conti

Montana State University | Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents Program (ICP)

Looking Up: Protecting human, climate history in the Scottish Highlands
Medill News Service

Northwestern University

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