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  • These ferries speed commutes and cut pollution — and they fly

    April 15, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    In Stockholm, an electric ferry that uses hydrofoils—underwater wings that increase the ship’s speed by allowing it to glide above the water’s surface—causes 98 percent fewer carbon emissions than a traditional diesel ferry. Other cities, such as Lake Tahoe and Berlin, are now considering implementing the technology.

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  • Where war once raged in Iraq, Yezidi women plant hope

    April 14, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Iraq, Khanke

    The Clean Green initiative empowers Yezidi women who escaped the 2014 ISIS genocide to rebuild their lives and enviornment by planting more than 2,000 trees, specifically chosen to withstand Iraq’s shifting climate. The grassroots group started with just five volunteers, but now has more than 40 members.

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  • Global warming is melting Arctic ice. Can science refreeze it?

    April 14, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Researchers from Real Ice, a United Kingdom-based climate-focused nonprofit, are piloting an ice-sheet conservation project that pumps ocean water to freeze on top of preexisting sea ice, aiming to reverse glacial melt.

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  • How Pakistan quietly became world's biggest solar importer

    April 14, 2025 |

    The Independent |

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    Response Location: Pakistan

    Pakistani households and small businesses independently embraced rooftop solar systems, making Pakistan the world's largest solar panel importer by 2024—a notable success demonstrating the potential of decentralized, economically driven clean energy transitions.

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  • Clean energy: Nigeria's move away from diesel generators

    April 11, 2025 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    A Berlin-based non-profit, Access to Energy Institute (A2EI), is providing traders at Wuse Market in Abuja :solar generators," which has reduced noise and fumes while also saving the community money by no longer having to buy fuel for generations. The installed solar panel system sends real-time data back to Berlin for monitoring and maintenance.

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  • La batalla científica para salvar «el glaciar del juicio final»

    April 07, 2025 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States

    Arête Glacier Initiative, un grupo de científicos del MIT y del Dartmouth College, ha recaudado 5 millones de dólares para mejorar las previsiones de la subida del nivel del mar y estudiar la posibilidad de volver a congelar los glaciares en su lugar. Han usado los fondos para dar becas a cientificos que trabajan en soluciones críticas al cambio climático.

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  • Return of the California condor

    April 02, 2025 |

    Knowable Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    The California Condor Recovery Program used captive breeding, innovative reproductive techniques, genetic management, and binational collaboration to bring the species back from 24 individuals in 1987 to 561 today, with 344 living in the wild across the US and Mexico.

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  • In the wake of disasters, rural health could end up running on sunshine 

    April 02, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Hot Springs, North Carolina

    In 2023, Hot Springs received a microgrid of solar panels and lithium-ion batteries, which can provide 100 percent of the town’s peak load and up to six hours of backup power. In Hurricane Helene's wake, the microgrid operated continuously for 143.5 hours during a blackout.

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  • El vuelo de regreso del cóndor de California

    April 02, 2025 |

    Knowable Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    El Programa de Recuperación del Cóndor de California utilizó la cría en cautiverio, técnicas reproductivas innovadoras, manejo genético y colaboración binacional para recuperar la especie de 24 individuos en 1987 a 561 en la actualidad, con 344 viviendo en estado salvaje en Estados Unidos y México.

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  • How bitcoin drives cheap green energy production in Kenya

    April 01, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    To use up excess renewable energy and help finance the expansion of power grids, companies such as Gridless are connecting energy producers in African countries with cryptocurrency miners that are eager to buy up unused power. By selling off energy to cryptocurrency companies, one hydropower system was able to expand its electricity service to 500 more homes.

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