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  • Burning to save Australia's Western Desert

    June 14, 2017 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Australia

    After once again being granted rights to their native land, the Martu people are bringing back the bioregenerative technique of small-scale land burning. In the past century, wildfires have ravaged the areas these people call home and has lead to the loss of over 18 species of animal. They hope that imparting this traditional method of ecological maintenance will decrease the number of wildfires and in many cases, the resulting extinction of other animal species.

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  • To Keep Predators Away, Montana Ranchers Compost Dead Cattle

    June 13, 2017 |

    Montana Public Radio |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wisdom, Montana

    With the reintroduction of predators such as wolves and grizzly bears in Montana's national parks, these carnivores are increasingly targeting ranchers’ livestock. To mitigate this issue, livestock composting sites have been created to provide meat for the predators and protect vulnerable species.

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  • Clean Energy Training & Solar Comes To Nepal UNESCO Heritage Site

    June 10, 2017 |

    Clean Technica |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nepal, Bharatpur, Chitwan District

    Grassroots organizations, Empowered by Light and Empower Generation, are killing two birds with one stone: bringing clean energy to rural Nepal, and creating jobs for Nepalese women in the environmental sector. By helping to install electricity-generating solar panels, which simultaneously prevents illegal animal poaching, women are provided not only with a stable income and a ladder to reliable economic growth, but also with a rich work-life balance, allowing them to become “clean energy entrepreneurs” while continuing to care for their families and tend to their village’s needs.

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  • When New York Harbor Is Your Classroom

    May 25, 2017 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s Harbor School is a public school that provides students with a comprehensive education in oceanic issues. Classes happen in a traditional classroom on Governor’s Island as well as on the harbor. Through this school, students living in an urban environment have a chance to connect to the environment and receive hands on training for maritime jobs.

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  • Vietnam's response to climate change? A shrimp and mangrove cocktail

    May 23, 2017 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Vietnam, Ben Tre Province

    Increasing salinization of water sources and droughts as a result of climate change have threatened traditional agricultural practices in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. But The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Netherlands Development Agency are helping teach farmers to adapt by showing them how to work with the saltier waters, establishing organic shrimp farms instead of growing rice and preserving the valuable mangroves that protect their coastline from storms.

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  • Hope, love prevail in conserving endangered Philippine cockatoo

    May 02, 2017 |

    Rappler |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Philippines, Rasa Island, Palawan

    The Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Program on Rasa Island has taken a multi-faceted approach to conservation - by employing former poachers to help protect the very species they once threatened. Through a combination of education in local schools, coordinations with government bodies, NGO training and support, as well as local volunteers and engaging the community, they are striving to restore the iconic cockatoo population, as well as preserving the other plants and animals that call this area home, and the local villages that depend on these resources for survival.

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  • Threatened Species? Science to the (Genetic) Rescue!

    April 27, 2017 |

    Smithsonian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Indiana

    As climate change, human encroachment, and habitat loss increasingly threaten the existence of numerous species around the world, some scientists are turning to a controversial and complex method to try and bring populations back from the brink. Genetic rescue is the method of reintroducing biodiversity into the reproductive pool of an endangered species - either by relocating individuals from one area to another or even directly editing their genetic material - and has been successful in preventing the extension of animals like the Florida panther and prairie chicken.

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  • Sea Ice Retreat Could Lead to Rapid Overfishing in the Arctic

    March 17, 2017 |

    The Atlantic |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Iceland, Reykjavík

    As arctic sea ice continues to melt at alarming rates due to climate change, new concerns about increased exposure of these virgin waters to the ravages of commercial fishing arise. Taking lessons from the population collapse of fish populations in the Bering Straight due to lack of regulation and data, international leaders from nations along the Arctic Circle are working together to protect these new territories and hopefully preserve capacities for the future.

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  • A beneficial way to dispose of the Sierra's lost trees: Use them for energy

    March 07, 2017 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    What do you do with 102 million dead trees, strewn across the Sierra Nevada’s forests? According to California’s Forest Service, something productive; previously left to stand in place and risk spreading fire at a much faster rate, the trees are now being used to produce energy. Though this solution had been tested in the 1990s and was found to produce more environmental harm than good, a few small, innovative companies are now working to extract energy through an environmentally sound method.

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  • The bizarre and inspiring story of Iowa's fish farmers

    February 01, 2017 |

    Mother Jones |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Webster City, Iowa

    A family in Iowa, living 1,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and 1,500 miles from the Pacific Ocean, are paving the way for the future of fish farms. By filling their unused barn with fish tanks, this third-generation Webster City farming family found a solution for successfully and sustainably raise up to 10 million pounds of barramundi per year.

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