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  • Alaskans work to analyze and reduce risks of glacial outburst flooding

    August 02, 2025 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In response to recurring glacial flooding outbursts, Juneau has implemented an early warning dashboard, $8 million temporary flood barriers, and ongoing scientific research. The solutions are too new to demonstrate measurable flood damage reduction, but increased community participation in preparedness activities is one promising impact.

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  • A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

    July 28, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    The creation of forest gardens—the modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables—are helping supply communities in sub-Saharan Africa with food, medicine, and animal feed. The U.S.-based NGO TREES claims to have created 38,000 active forest gardens in five countries, each comprising about 4,000 trees. This has restored 99,743 acres of degraded land, having reached 56,273 farmers and their families across 174 community projects.

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  • Singapore's regreening is a model for cities everywhere

    July 22, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    Government initiatives, certification programs, ecological consultants, and international environmental associations are all part of Singapore's concerted effort to coexist with its wildlife and reduce impacts of climate change like air pollution and stress.

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  • The Aromatic Roots Indians Turn to for Cooling Relief

    July 14, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Bharuch

    Khus (vetiver grass) curtains are a traditional, climate-friendly cooling method in India that is seeing a revival as extreme temperatures rise. Locals hang woven curtains made from dried vetiver roots in doorways or windows and spray them with water throughout the day. As hot air passes through them, evaporative cooling reduces indoor temperatures. This low-cost, low-energy solution has been implemented in homes and public areas like bus stops to combat the heat.

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  • Could beavers be the secret to winning the fight against wildfires?

    July 06, 2025 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Beaver restoration programs across the American West are creating fire-resistant green refuges, improving water storage and quality, and supporting wildlife recovery by partnering with the dam-building rodents rather than eliminating them, demonstrating that a nature-based approach can simultaneously address wildfire risk, drought, and ecosystem degradation.

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  • New App Alerts Users to Rising Rivers and Streams

    July 02, 2025 |

    Seven Days |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    RiverAware, an app that uses real-time data from a national network of gauges, has helped citizens, first responders, floodplain managers, scientists, and recreational users such as paddlers and anglers access river-flow data, informing or alerting communities as to when it's time to evacuate or seek higher ground. The data is aggregated from more than 13,000 stream-gauging stations around the country maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Weather Service.

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  • Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community

    July 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In Phoenix's historically Black neighborhoods, community organizations have transformed vacant, heat-trapping lots into thriving urban farms. One initiative, Spaces of Opportunity, converted a 19-acre abandoned site into a community farm with 250 garden plots available. Spaces of Opportunity serves over 1,000 residents each month, and other community farming initiatives also help in providing food and jobs for participants, many of whom are formerly incarcerated or unhoused.

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  • What's needed to get spring Chinook back to Walla Walla? Cooperation — and patience

    June 24, 2025 |

    Northwest Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: Umatilla Indian Reservation, United States, Milton, Oregon

    The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation worked to restore extinct Chinook salmon populations by building their own fish hatchery, establishing legislation, and creating a consensus-based advisory committee that brings government, agriculture, business, and conservation groups together to coordinate water management. Salmon returns have dramatically increased from about 60 fish in 2023 to over 900 in 2025.

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  • Juventud del Caribe Sur de Costa Rica revela el pasado y protege el futuro de su comunidad, buceando

    June 21, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    El Centro Comunitario de Buceo Embajadoras y Embajadores del Mar (CCBEM) implementa un modelo de ciencia ciudadana que combina el conocimiento tradicional de jóvenes pescadores del Caribe Sur con formación científica en buceo y arqueología subacuática, utilizando su filosofía "ABCD" (Arqueología, Buceo con propósito, Conservación coralina y Desarrollo juvenil) para simultáneamente recuperar la historia afrocostarricense a través de expediciones arqueológicas submarinas y proteger los arrecifes de coral mediante programas comunitarios de monitoreo y conservación marina.

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  • Maine's Heat Pump Boom Has Been Promising for Rural Workforce Development. Can It Last?

    June 10, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    To meet the state’s clean energy goals, Maine communities and institutions like Kennebec Valley Community College are launching training initiatives to bolster HVAC, refrigerant and electrical knowledge to support the clean energy workforce. With the help of these initiatives, in Somerset County alone, where KVCC is located, the number of clean energy workers has grown by 44% since 2020.

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