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Storyfest 2025

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The Planet Forward Frontline Climate Fellowship

The Planet Forward Frontline Climate Fellowship

Ask PF: Climate Advice for Students, by Students

Ask PF: Climate Advice for Students, by Students

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pollution

Four water issues facing California
Julia Paige-Carter

Planet Forward Correspondent | Arizona State University

Inspiring innovation: How bacteria can help remove landmines and pollution
Isabella Elmore

George Washington University

Essay | Microplastics: A well-known threat that isn’t so easy to get rid of
Anna Carman

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

A glass of water is filled with multicolored specks of plastic.
How farmers and pollution regulators work together
Hannah Krantz

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

A man in a long shirt and pants hold a long pole out over a section of crops in a large field. The pole is spraying a mist over the plants.
Onondaga Lake: Clean enough?
Ethan McDevitt

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

How one trip to a birding hotspot helped me overcome my fear
Medill News Service

Northwestern University

Two people stand by the shoreline of a beach, one carrying a clipboard, the other looking down the beach with a monocular.
The disposable mask conundrum: A podcast
Devin Howard

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

Disposable mask waste: Effects of a newfound pollutant during the pandemic
Louisa Reitzel

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

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Sustainability that sticks: GW students make reducing plastic personal
Greer Blount

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

A person in a white shirt, head not pictured, holds a yellow water bottle with several colorful, overlapping stickers.
COP26 in Context: From reducing methane emissions to packaging
Hannah Krantz

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

Indigenous academics gather over restoration for ecosystems and from injustice
Victoria Middleton

Digital Editor, Planet Forward

A tree on the edge of a forested bluff which looks over a green valley below.
4 places where racism, climate change & environmental justice collided
Jayden Graham-White

Tuskegee University

hands surrounding the planet
Glass stars and empty sky
Matthew Brown

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

A residential street at night, illuminated by a row of streetlights.
Plastic: The threat that’s everywhere, even within us
Cate Twining-Ward

Senior Correspondent Alum | Columbia University, George Washington University '21

New life for the Chesapeake Bay
Lizzie Stricklin

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

Essay | How COVID-19 changed my practice of environmental ethics
Cate Twining-Ward

Senior Correspondent Alum | Columbia University, George Washington University '21

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