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  • Nepal brick kilns rebuilt after quake become cleaner

    March 07, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    Kathmandu is one of the most polluted countries in the world--a title once caused by the excess smoke produced by brick creation in the city. However, after a 2015 earthquake destroyed much of the old technology used to fuel the brick industry, leaders took to leveraging updated technology with an increase in energy and production efficiency.

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  • Dinheiro que dá em árvore

    March 07, 2017 |

    InfoAmazonia |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil, Mato Grosso

    O especial multimídia mostra como agricultores familiares, técnicos ambientais e governantes ajudam o Brasil a produzir alimentos e a recuperar a floresta amazônica na região do Mato Grosso.

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  • طالبة تطور اختراعا فاز بجائزة دولية لمكافحة السحب السوداء في مصر

    March 06, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Egypt

    توصلت طالبة إلى طريقة للاستجابة لتلوث الهواء في مصر الناجم جزئيًا عن حرق مزارعين لقش الأرز. إذ لاحظت أن درجة حرارة حرق النفايات الزراعية هي ذاتها التي تستخدم عند تقطير المياه، وثم يمكن معالجة الغازات المنبعثة من العملية لإنتاج وقود حيوي، وسماد، وفيتامين ب وطاقة كهرومائية.

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  • Building Better Cities

    March 05, 2017 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia, Cali, Valle del Cauca

    By 2050 the percentage of the world's population living in cities will increase to two-thirds with significant environmental strains. In Colombia, a company called Conceptos Plasticos collects recyclable plastic material, melts it down and moulds it into bricks used to build houses for the local community. Singapore too, is on the cutting edge of environmentally sustainable urban solutions including vertical farms and living buildings.

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  • How China is Cleaning its Air

    March 05, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: China, Beijing, Jingjinji

    Air pollution is a huge problem for China, but surprisingly, the Air Quality Index in several cities is improving because of a variety of experimental projects that are being rolled out and a number of clever pollution solutions from around the country.

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  • Seeds of Commerce: Saving Native Plants in the Heart of Appalachia

    March 02, 2017 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    As climate change continues to threaten the survival of native plants species and the health of the eco-systems they support, the North Carolina Arboretum’s Germplasm Repository is taking a clever new approach to the preservation of native plant seeds: pushing to capitalize on their commercial value. Plant physiologists like Joe-Ann McCoy know that the best method for saving many species may also create jobs and boost local economies, when businesses start leveraging the medicinal uses of native plants for products like herbal supplements.

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  • Illegal logging in Malawi: can clean cooking stoves save its forests?

    February 23, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Malawi, Mount Mulanje, Lilongwe

    In much of Malawi, the electrical grid is highly unreliable and the cost of fuels like petroleum prohibitive, forcing most families to rely on the black market for illegally-sourced charcoal and leading to heavy deforestation. But some NGOs are tackling the issue with a grassroots approach: rather than relying on the army to punish illegal logging, they are helping women provide cleaner, more efficient cookstoves to their communities - reducing the amount of fuel burned as well as toxic smoke from open fires.

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  • The future will be battery-powered

    February 21, 2017 |

    Grist |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    There is an ongoing competition to improve batteries as a method of energy storage that is environmentally conscious. Intense research on batteries is ongoing, including the development of the "saltwater battery', in order to improve their reliability, storage abilities and safety.

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  • Mumbai church turns tonnes of waste flowers to eco-friendly cooking fuel

    February 20, 2017 |

    Hindustan Times |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    After seeing prayer flowers wasted week after week, one church in Mumbai, India, implemented a new biologically-sustainable solution. The church now creates its own biogas, reducing waste and creatively producing energy alternatives.

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  • Look who's helping your clothes make the transition to a warmer world

    February 20, 2017 |

    Ensia |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The cotton industry is turning to a wide variety of innovations such as remote sensing, water regulation, no-till methods etc. in order to combat the varied and complex impacts climate change is having on it.

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