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Trash sucks: A Norwegian city uses vacuum tubes to whisk waste away

Nicolás Rivero

June 11, 2025 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Norway, Bergen

Bergen, Norway’s pneumatic waste system uses high-powered vacuum tubes to suck trash and recycling from central receptacles to nearby waste stations, reducing the need for garbage trucks and helping to keep the streets cleaner. According to city officials, the system, which is still in the process of being built out, has helped to reduce air pollution, cut diesel emissions, and save the city money on waste collection.

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How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

June 05, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Shared electric cargo bike programs like CargoB and Re:Ciclos offer affordable, sustainable transportation alternatives that can significantly reduce urban car dependency; however, their long-term success hinges on overcoming infrastructure, cultural, and economic barriers.

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Ciencia comunitaria hecha por mujeres para anticipar sequías, cuidar cultivos y alimentar familias

Adriana González

June 05, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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3-5 Minutes

Response Location: El Salvador, Ahuachapán

En Ahuachapán, un grupo de mujeres están liderando un espacio de ciencia comunitaria para proteger el medioambiente e informar a su comunidad cuando sembrar o proteger cultivos. Colocan pluviómetros, anotan datos cada mañana y, a través de grupos de WhatsApp, van informando a la comunidad sobre la cantidad de lluvia que ha caído; tambien envían los datos cada mañana al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente para que el gobierno sepa lo que pasa en el campo.

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Life often gets in the way of adults going back to school. This Texarkana nonprofit has a solution.

Sarah Asch

June 02, 2025 |

Texas Standard |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Texarkana, Texas

The 100 Families Program provides a vital connection point for community organizations serving people in need, streamlining the process for clients to get help with everything from obtaining a GED to finding housing and getting set up with food benefits. In Texarkana, which established its version of the program in 2022, over 100 community partners are now involved in the effort, and nearly half of clients who came into the program in the last year have since earned a high school diploma or are now working toward one.

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Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety.

Karla Adam

May 30, 2025 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Norway

Norway achieved nearly 90% electric vehicle adoption through a 25-year strategy of generous tax incentives (including a 25% VAT exemption), government-subsidized charging infrastructure, and legal guarantees for charging access, resulting in EVs becoming cheaper than gas cars and transforming even remote Arctic regions into EV-dominant markets.

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How different Chicago organizations are informationally combating ICE

Matt Brady

May 30, 2025 |

ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

As ICE steps up arrest efforts around the country, organizations such as Arise Chicago are working to educate communities with Know Your Rights toolkits that help them prepare for potential confrontations with ICE officers. The kits are available digitally and can be accessed through a QR code, making the information easy to disseminate.

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For the few right whales left, technology and teamwork are showing promise

Nate Iglehart

May 21, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

A collaborative coastal network of signaling devices called StationKeepers is enabling ship operators to receive real-time whale location alerts directly on their navigation screens, resulting in significantly reduced collisions and greater protection for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

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Out of the Wild: How A.I. Is Transforming Conservation Science

Jim Robbins

May 19, 2025 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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Response Location: Canada

Using artificial intelligence, scientists and conservationists can rapidly analyze vast environmental data sets—from audio recordings of nocturnal birds to millions of camera trap images—which has led to quicker and more efficient wildlife monitoring and decision-making, while also growing concern about ecological knowledge biases and decreased field engagement.

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How a California County Eliminated PFAS From the Water Supply

Carl Smith

May 15, 2025 |

Governing |

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Response Location: United States, Yorba Linda, California

The Orange County Water District’s treatment plant uses ion exchange, a process that draws PFAS “forever chemicals” from the supply using positively charged resin beads. The plant distributes water with no detectable PFAS to roughly 80,000 customers.

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Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics

Kati Pohjanpalo, Lars Paulsson, Kari Lundgren

May 13, 2025 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: Finland

By integrating data centers with district heating systems, Nordic countries are successfully reusing waste heat to warm thousands of homes, significantly reducing energy costs and emissions while highlighting geographic, regulatory, and power consumption challenges to scaling the approach further.

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