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  • How Do We Keep Children Safe from Online Violence and the Challenges of AI

    September 18, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Romania

    In an effort to address online violence children face in the digital age, initiatives across several countries, including Spain, Romania, and Ukraine, are getting creative using theatre, media literacy training on AI and algorithms, anonymous reporting hotlines and classroom phone bans, among other strategies to help youth cope. The various initiatives have proven successful. For example, the school-wide phone ban in one Spain region resulted in a 27.42% decrease in cyberharassment cases between 2023-2024.

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  • The silent surge: How an innovative program at Cleveland Clinic is reaching kids in mental health emergencies — before it's too late

    September 12, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The Cleveland Clinic’s pediatric emergency room uses iPads loaded with peer-to-peer educational mental health videos from youth who have gone through the emergency room visit and inpatient admission process to help support other young people as they sit in the waiting room. The videos help reduce fear and anxiety, and research shows that peer support for people in crisis can also reduce re-hospitalization rates and promote recovery.

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  • Joint effort assesses landslide and tsunami risks in Alaska's Prince William Sound

    September 12, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska has deployed a state-of-the-art, multi-agency monitoring system at Barry Arm featuring seismic stations, radar, and tidal gauges that can successfully predict tsunami risks after one year of data collection. Working with community businesses allowed the system to adapt operations and demonstrate how real-time landslide detection can provide crucial location data within minutes of an event.

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  • From rain-drenched mountains to Arctic permafrost, Alaska landslides pose hazards

    September 12, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska agencies are coordinating landslide monitoring through multi-agency programs, tribal partnerships, and citizen science apps, which has successfully prevented infrastructure damage (like the $25 million Dalton Highway rerouting that avoided landslide destruction) but faces limitations from funding uncertainty and the vast geographic scale requiring public education as the primary protective measure.

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  • Minecraft Therapy Opens Powerful World for Children and Teens

    September 10, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Mental health therapists in Colorado and the UK independently developed Minecraft-based therapy sessions during the pandemic when traditional play therapy moved online. Therapists create secure virtual worlds where children and teens can engage in therapeutic activities through gameplay. Those who participate are more animated and engaged, and typically never miss a Minecraft session, unlike traditional therapy.

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  • Hundreds of bats swarm out of house near San Marcos… but that was the plan

    September 04, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Fentress, Texas

    The benefits of bat houses are two-fold: they provide safe spaces for the endangered animals to roost, while also encouraging them to take care of pests like insects that can damage farmers’ crops, eliminating the need for pesticides. One Texas farmer had nearly 400 bats roosting in his bat houses at last count, and analysis of their droppings showed they’re eating at least 200 species of insects.

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  • Lessons From New Orleans' Experience as a Charter School Laboratory

    September 04, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans gave control of its schools to a Recovery School District that replaced the majority of the city’s existing schools with public charter schools. Following the reforms, research showed improvements in student achievement, graduation rates, and college matriculation, though the gains have slowed in recent years.

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  • How drones and AI are changing the way we fight wildfires

    September 02, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The U.S. Forest Service's drone program has rapidly scaled from 734 flights in 2019 to over 17,000 in 2024, enabling safer and more efficient wildfire management by replacing dangerous pilot reconnaissance missions with unmanned thermal imaging that can detect hotspots and guide ground crews more precisely.

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  • The invisible 'giant nets' that catch the smallest songbirds

    August 27, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Canada

    The Motus network—a collaborative system of 2,200 radio towers across 34 countries that track tiny migratory animals using lightweight tags—has successfully mapped previously unknown migration routes for over 55,000 animals across 450+ species, revolutionizing conservation research for small songbirds and other creatures too tiny for traditional GPS tracking.

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  • 'Survivors deserve better': State support needed to expand Maine's rape kit tracking pilot

    August 22, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Maine's rape kit tracking pilot program, designed to give sexual assault survivors more control in their investigations, works like package tracking. Victims receive a postcard with a kit number after evidence collection and can check the status of their kit online.

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