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Rescued gray seals, now healthy, released back to the ocean
Cecilia Sécola & Dre Pedemonte

Planet Forward Mystic Aquarium Fellow | George Washington University

Essay | Reflecting on microplastics: The infinite faux sands of the Earth
Kayla Stoll

Southern New Hampshire University

A discarded plastic bag hands in the branches of a tree.
Mercury-free mining: The Peruvian women who are rewriting gold’s environmental story
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Notre Dame University

Mercury-free mining: The Peruvian women who are rewriting gold’s environmental story
American air: How air pollution is tied to the nation’s warehouse boom
Ananya Gondesi

George Washington University

American air: How air pollution is tied to the nation’s warehouse boom
Essay | Home is where the harm is: Perseverance in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Ciara Thomas

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | Tuskegee University

Essay | Home is where the harm is: Perseverance in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Fiber to forever: “Buy clothes you wanna grow old with”
Gyuri Won

Emerson College

Fiber to forever: “Buy clothes you wanna grow old with”
Meet the Guam Extreme Clean-up Crew
Farron Taijeron

Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Guam

Meet the Guam Extreme Clean-up Crew
Art, science, environment: An interview with Bonnie Monteleone
Rose Palmer

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

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Smoke and mirrors: Exposing environmental racism through art
Mykah Scott

Planet Forward Correspondent | Tuskegee University

Falling limbs: Herbicide drift and quiet destruction
Sophia Beem

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reading sea creatures & corals: A Penghu story
Ping Yen (Jeff) Tsai

University of Richmond

NO2, No Grazie!: The fight for clean air in Italy’s fashion capital
Maximilian Garibay-Deasy

University of Southern California, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Bocconi University

Injustice, joy: A short film
Theo Daniels

Georgetown University

A day on, not a day off: MLK’s legacy in environmental justice
Morghan Manuel

Howard University

Waste sites in residential areas linked to an increase in disease
Ben Gingold

University of Connecticut

Blinding the night: Reclaiming D.C.’s night sky
Lydie Lake

George Washington University

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