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  • WA's Nooksack River has been sounding the alarm, and people are finally listening

    After being hit by two natural disasters in one year, cities, Indigenous tribes, and government agencies in Whatcom County on the Nooksack River are working together to create a new plan to deal with flood risk and salmon restoration. The Floodplain Integrated Planning team is overcoming distrust among its partners to build a more holistic plan that incorporates tested solutions like fish-friendly floodgates, levee repairs, and property buyouts to remove homes that will continue to be flooded in the future.

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  • 'Ventilation Corridors' Funnel Cool Mountain Air Into Steamy Stuttgart

    Stuttgart is using a “nature-based response” to climate change by leveraging earth-cooling tools already available in the natural world. The city has created a vast network of ventilation channels – green parkways and corridors of water and trees – designed to funnel cooler breezes into the city at night and naturally lower air temperatures.

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  • Greece's Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories

    Tilos, Greece, works with a network of companies to collect and sort the island residents' waste to be composted, recycled, or reused instead of using a landfill.

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  • The Democracy Deficit

    In response to the yellow vest movement, France decided to experiment with "open democracy" by convening the French Citizens Convention on Climate, which asked 150 randomly-selected citizens to consider ways for the country to curb greenhouse gas emissions. With the help of more than 100 experts, the convention developed 149 recommendations that were used as the basis for France's most ambitious climate legislation proposal to date.

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  • Small-scale forest landowners gain foothold in U.S. carbon markets

    The voluntary carbon market allows small-scale landowners to receive credits for reducing climate-changing emissions, which they can sell to corporations to offset their emissions. The carbon market has provided small landowners with other options to make money besides logging.

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  • Kenyan youth help climate-hit communities prepare for disaster

    A group of young volunteers translate disaster alert bulletins issued by the government drought agency into local languages and then share the alerts by word of mouth and over the radio so that people living in rural areas can take action, particularly receive nutrition aid for their children.

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  • Pakistan's Mangroves Are a Coastal Conservation Marvel

    Mangroves are biodiverse growths that provide a variety of benefits to coastal regions including food security, a breeding ground for various species and protection from erosion and storms along the coast. Previously destroyed by deforestation, efforts to regrow mangroves are a cost-effective solution to climate change.

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  • Europe's New Trams Are Reviving a Golden Age of Transit

    The extensive, all-electric tram system in Strasbourg has emerged as a solution to address air pollution and street congestion caused by cars as well as a critical medium of transport as the city expands its low-emission zones. The tramway's ridership has been resilient, even during the pandemic, and its inspiring a revival of the system across France.

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  • In a New Orleans ward ravaged by climate change, leaders nurture the next generation

    Founded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development program teaches young locals and interns about environmental science and conservation practices to prepare them for natural disasters.

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  • Humans finally figured out how to make it rain

    Farmers facing drought turn to cloud seeding, a process in which silver iodide is released into clouds, to help produce rainfall for their crops.

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