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  • How Forecasting Models Are Changing the Way We Fight Fires

    August 17, 2018 |

    Eos |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    The National Weather Service has been helping firefighting crews better prepare for and fight wildfires. They’ve developed a model called the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh-Smoke (HRRR-Smoke) to show where there’s higher smoke density and what direction it’s heading toward. The agency is hoping to continue their work to become better at preventative measures so that towns and cities can prepare ahead of time.

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  • We're Getting Better at Saving Seabirds After Oil Spills

    August 17, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Santa Barbara, California

    There used to be a time when oil spills devastated entire populations of animals. Although still an environmental disaster, scientists and wildlife veterinarians have become profoundly more successful at treating oiled birds. Crediting much of the success to better understanding the importance of order of treatment, rehabilitated birds are surviving at a much higher rate than ever before.

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  • UPS Trucks Don't Turn Left and Neither Should You

    August 17, 2018 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    By having its drivers eliminate most left turns on their routes UPS has saved millions of gallons of fuel and reduced the output of tons of carbon dioxide. The company put the policy in place in 2004 after its vehicle routing software in all its trucks determined left turns wasted time and money stopping them also reduces accidents. These gains could increase exponentially if every driver eliminated left turns but that is probably unlikely.

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  • Climate Change, the Rio Grande and Border Water

    August 16, 2018 |

    Texas Observer |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    The Rio Grande River, which provides water to 6 million people and irrigates 2 million acres of farmland, is one of many transnational sources of water imperiled by climate change. Indeed, many states and countries that share water are drawn into conflict over dwindling resources. One relationship between officials in Mexico and the U.S. offers some hope that (with the right coaching) countries can cooperate, even in the face of greater political problems.

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  • How One Kid Stopped the Contamination of a River

    August 16, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Nova Scotia

    After discovering that raw sewage was flowing into Nova Scotia's LaHave River at alarming rates, an 11-year-old in the community decided study the issue for her science project. After testing the levels of the water and relating the cause of the issue to a certain type of sewage system, she publicized the results through social media, prompting the community to organize around change.

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  • The great African regreening: millions of 'magical' new trees bring renewal

    August 16, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Niger

    With climate change altering the realities of farming, small-scale farmers in Niger are doing their part to nurture the growth of local gao trees. As a tree that sheds its leaves in the rainy season and naturally fertilizes the soil due to its nitrogen intake, this specific tree is positively transforming the African landscape.

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  • Can the Great Lakes continue to fend off an increasingly thirsty world?

    August 16, 2018 |

    Ensia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Muskegon, Michigan

    The Great Lakes contain 84 percent of the surface freshwater in North America—a staggering 21 percent of the surface freshwater worldwide. To manage the resource sustainably, all eight lake-bordering states, Congress, and Canadian provinces created the Great Lakes Compact in 2008, which has regulated and curbed water use. An evaluation of the agreement ten years later shows promising yet mixed results. And critically, it asks whether strong policies can withstand a future of growing water scarcity.

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  • Giving new life to vacant buildings can boost struggling towns

    August 15, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Newburgh, New York

    In New York, an intentional form of housing development is keeping affordability in mind. Neighbors for Neighborhoods provides funding for locals to redevelop blighted property from land banks and rent it out as affordable housing. The parameters ensure local impact: there is a limit to how many properties an individual can rent out, and the properties must be rented to people making below 80% the median income in the region. The program has $4 million in funding so far.

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  • The Conflict of Interest That Is Killing Recycling

    August 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Recycling is having a moment of reckoning across the United States as many people continue to dispose of garbage in recycle bins. Mitch Hedlund, executive director of Recycle Across America, explains that a lack of public outreach and education is to blame. Through implementing a labeling system, however, the organization has seen an uptick in people successfully designating their trash to the correct bin.

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  • Hawaii Enlists Urchins to Help Corals Resist Algae Invasion

    August 15, 2018 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States, Kāne'ohe Bay, Hawaii

    In Hawaii's Kāne'ohe Bay, an invasive algae introduced by a scientist in the 1970s was still wreaking havoc for coral reefs. After attempting human-driven solutions to rid the area of the species, scientists have instead found success by unleashing urchins that can eat double their body weight in algae per day.

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