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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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  • 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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  • Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute

    March 25, 2025 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado built wildlife crossings, like highway overpasses and underpasses, to safely funnel wildlife across dangerous roads, successfully reducing animal-vehicle collisions by over 80%.

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  • Abandoned Coal Mines Are Becoming the Batteries of the Future

    February 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Gravity batteries can store excess renewable energy in abandoned mine shafts, offering coal-dependent communities economic and environmental benefits. This energy storage tactic is being used in various iterations around the globe.

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  • Some Wisconsin landowners manage beavers with non-lethal ways

    February 06, 2025 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Advocates and ecological consultants are popularizing flow control devices and tactics as a solution to beaver conflicts. A few are limiting beavers’ damming behavior and reducing beavers impacts on human infrastructure.

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  • Green Microgrids Are Powering a More Resilient Future

    January 17, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Blue Lake Rancheria, United States, California

    Microgrids, small-scale energy systems that can operate either independently or as part of the larger electric grid, are growing in popularity and effectiveness. In one example on tribal land in California, a microgrid saves 25 percent of electricity costs and reduces Blue Lake Rancheria's carbon footprint by hundreds of tons of carbon annually.

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  • Can desalination quench agriculture's thirst?

    November 21, 2024 |

    Knowable Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Several pilot studies point to the viability of desalination projects being an effective option for farmers in certain fresh-water-scarce regions.

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  • Can Fungi Save This Endangered Hawaiian Tree?

    October 30, 2024 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Conservationists in Hawaii are growing seedlings of the critically endangered na’u tree alongside mycorrhizal fungi instead of fertilizers and pesticides to mimic their natural growing process. The fungi support the plant in a variety of ways, like sucking up more water and providing mineral nutrients, which helps the seedlings grow at a rapid pace.

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  • Report finds guaranteed income helped Louisvillians save money and avoid evictions

    October 23, 2024 |

    Louisville Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The city of Louisville, Kentucky, offered some residents of low-income neighborhoods $500 a month for a year with no strings attached as a part of its first ever guaranteed income program. The funds allowed people to start building savings and prevented evictions.

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  • The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

    October 20, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Provincetown, Massachusetts

    Lobster is a crucial economic resource in New England, but entanglements with the fishing line from lobster traps are a major cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Scientists and lobstermen are testing ropeless, on-demand gear that minimizes the risk for whales and allows fishing to continue in areas that would otherwise be closed for months as the whales pass through.

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