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  • Frontline health clinics adapt to climate challenges with assistance from a free resource

    January 13, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sanford, North Carolina

    The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit was developed to help healthcare providers prepare for and respond to climate-related emergencies. The toolkit offers guidance on patient communication, disaster preparedness and environmental health risks. The toolkit was created in collaboration with Americares and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with co-development from free clinics and community health centers serving low-income and uninsured patients.

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  • NC addiction treatment programs partner to reduce maternal deaths from substance use

    January 09, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: Holy See (Vatican City State), North Carolina

    Six programs throughout the state, including the SUN Project and Project CARA, are working to provide support to pregnant mothers navigating a substance use disorder. With support from the North Carolina Perinatal Substance Use Disorder Network, the programs share best practices for treating perinatal substance use and expand access to treatment. Project CARA alone serves more than 200 patients each year.

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  • California Firefighters Use AI to Combat Growing Wildfire Threats

    January 08, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The ALERT California system is a network of 1,000 cameras using machine learning to identify wildfires in remote, high-risk areas. When a fire is detected, the system sends an alert to operators and emergency responders monitoring the technology. AI helps detect fires sooner, improving firefighting efforts and improving disaster recovery.

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  • Texas Trees launches a five-year plan to make South Dallas more green

    December 04, 2024 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Texas Trees Foundation is bringing thousands of trees to Dallas communities experiencing the worst of the urban heat island effect to help keep them cool. The organization supplies the trees and teaches residents how to care for them.

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  • Building for the climate: How it's done in Switzerland

    November 24, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    A cooperative in Switzerland is building sustainable apartments using recycled materials and green building practices to create carbon-neutral communal living spaces. These “cluster apartments” cut down on living space per person and save energy.

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  • Abandoned 'ghost gear' kills sea life. A Myanmar nonprofit is turning the tide.

    November 13, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Myanmar

    The nonprofit Myanmar Ocean Project is working to raise awareness of and remove ghost gear, abandoned fishing gear that kills marine life, from the country’s waters. Volunteer drivers remove the gear from the water and create public awareness campaigns.

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  • Campus Food Recovery Network Serves Local Community

    November 12, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

    Pepperdine University’s Food Recovery Network club rescues unconsumed food from events on campus and a local Starbucks and gives it to nonprofits in the area that distribute it to those in need. Since forming in the Fall 2016 semester, the club has rescued 14,603 pounds of food that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.

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  • In Warsaw, Falling Road Deaths Signal a Traffic Safety Turnaround

    November 01, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Poland, Warsaw

    In an effort to reach Vision Zero, the Swedish safety strategy that aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, Warsaw has implemented measures that have dropped the number of road deaths by 55% over the last 10 years. Strategies like upgraded crosswalks, increased fines for lawbreaking drivers and the creation of roundabouts are just some of the methods that have helped make the roads safer, and the city plans to double its investment over the next four years.

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  • Una manera radical de abordar las inundaciones en Inglaterra: inundaciones estratégicas

    October 23, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Steart Peninsula, Somerset

    A los granjeros en la península de Steart se les pagaban unas 5000 libras por acre (unos 4000 metros cuadrados) para que cedieran sus tierras, permitiendo que aguas de las mareas inundaran la península. La marisma salada absorba el creciente volumen de agua que se hincha en las orillas del río Parrett y atrapa carbono.

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  • 'This is not luck. This is a systemic approach': These major US cities are trying to curb violent crime — and it's working

    September 29, 2024 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Several cities across the U.S. are trying new methods to reduce violent crime. Some of these, like the “hotspot policing” effort in San Antonio that increases police visibility in areas that are statistically prone to violent crime, are working. The first part of San Antonio’s three-phase plan saw a 37% decrease in violent crime compared to the previous year.

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