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  • Police hire more civilian investigators to shore up ranks

    September 20, 2022 |

    News21 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In an effort to combat staffing shortages, several police departments are hiring civilian investigators. Hiring civilian investigators helps ensure crimes get hands-on attention and, hopefully, are solved in a timely manner, while also helping to civilianize standard law enforcement operations.

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  • ‘This is what a river should look like': Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

    September 20, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Grevenbicht

    Rewilding Europe is a river-restoration project working to preserve rivers as biodiversity hotspots and prevent damage from human activity. Since Rewilding Europe was founded, its projects have stretched across the continent, including to countries like Spain Italy, Bulgaria, and Sweden and was recently awarded a grant of £4.1m to scale up its work.

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  • Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

    September 20, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Terbol

    The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) preserves genetic diversity and breeds climate-resilient varieties of staple crops to improve livelihoods and strengthen food security — specifically in dry, climate-change-affected areas — by creating seed vaults. Through breeding programs over the past four decades, ICARDA has released more than 30 improved varieties of wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, and fava beans.

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  • The Other Abortion Pill

    September 19, 2022 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, access to safe, legal abortion in the U.S. is scarce. While several states have banned mifepristone and misoprostol — the two drugs that makeup abortion pills — misoprostol, which has been found to be the more effective of the two, can still be accessed at some pharmacies and through nonprofits in the U.S. and overseas like Plan C and Aid Access.

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  • In Pa., climate change can increase flooding risk in places that rarely worried about it. This community is seeking solutions

    September 13, 2022 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States, Dubuque, Iowa

    Increased flooding from storms labeled federal disasters led Dubuque, Iowa, to daylight, or uncover, a creek that was buried and turned into a sewer. This project combined with rain gardens and detention ponds to trap storm water prevents flooding.

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  • Taos Ski Valley, Already B Corp Certified, Is Now Carbon Neutral

    September 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Taos Ski Valley, a ski resort in New Mexico, is now CarbonNeutral certified due to practices like reduction of emissions and on-mountain energy use, and investment in carbon offsets.

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  • Trash to art: How an enterprise is turning waste into treasure in Gombe

    September 12, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

    AMAZ Xcellent Enterprises addresses waste management issues by transforming trash like tissue paper rolls, used envelopes, and outdated wall calendars into decorative pieces, and useful items like pen stands. For every pen stand made, the organization uses about four tissue paper rolls and has already created more than 100 stands.

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  • Floating Solar Farms Are a Game Changer

    September 12, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Portugal

    Solar panels that float on water are used to generate electricity instead of taking up space for solar farms on land.

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  • Is nuclear power a green solution? Why world tilts toward ‘yes.'

    September 09, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Environmental groups and policymakers around the world are softening their stances against nuclear power in the face of today’s climate and energy realities. As the second-largest source of carbon-free electricity, nuclear power can have several advantages. In the U.S. alone, the use of nuclear power in 2020 prevented more than 471 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions – the equivalent of removing 100 million cars from the road.

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  • How a Methodist Preacher Became a Champion for Black-Led Sustainable Agriculture

    September 09, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Allensworth, California

    The TAC Farm is a Black-owned and operated farm working to boost the local economy. TAC Farm also uses organic, climate-friendly farming processes, like enriching the soil with compost and installing windbreaks to protect crops.

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