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  • Okyanusların yükü mavi karbonla azaltılabilir mi?

    August 05, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Turkey

    Mavi karbon ekosistemleri (deniz çayırları, gelgit/tuzlu bataklıkları ve mangrov ormanları) okyanusların yalnızca küçük bir kısmını kaplamasına rağmen küresel karbonun yaklaşık yarısını depolayarak iklim değişikliğiyle mücadelede güçlü bir doğal çözüm sunuyor. Türkiye’de ise deniz çayırlarının haritalanması, korunması ve restorasyonu gibi çalışmalar bu çözümün nasıl işleyeceğini ortaya koyarken, aynı zamanda ekosistem tahribatının önlenmesi ve kapsamlı iklim politikalarıyla birlikte yürütülmesi gerektiğini gösteriyor.

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  • Güneş tepede, gölge nerede?

    August 05, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Dünyanın farklı şehirlerinde uygulanan yeşil alan artırımı, gölgelendirme projeleri, serinleme merkezleri ve sıcaklıkla mücadele ekipleri, şehirlerdeki ölümcül sıcaklıkların etkisini azaltarak insanların yaşam kalitesini doğrudan iyileştiriyor. Bu çözümler; ağaçlandırma, yeşil koridor oluşturma, kamusal serinleme noktaları yaratma, saha ekipleriyle kırılgan gruplara destek sağlama ve yansıtıcı yüzey gibi yenilikçi uygulamalarla kent ısısını düşürmeye çalışan çok araçlı bir yaklaşım üzerinden işliyor.

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  • Alaskans work to analyze and reduce risks of glacial outburst flooding

    August 02, 2025 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In response to recurring glacial flooding outbursts, Juneau has implemented an early warning dashboard, $8 million temporary flood barriers, and ongoing scientific research. The solutions are too new to demonstrate measurable flood damage reduction, but increased community participation in preparedness activities is one promising impact.

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  • Can rainwater-fed ponds revive Bangladesh's hilly streams?

    August 01, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Khagrachhari

    In Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, conservationist Mahfuz Ahmed Russel is reviving dying streams by building artificial ponds that harvest rainwater to use in streambeds during dry seasons. Over seven years, aquatic life and vegetation have begun to repopulate and streambeds have remained wet throughout the dry season.

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  • How one California community is turning an old oil field into protected habitat

    August 01, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Fullerton, California

    The Friends of Coyote Hills led a 30-year community campaign that successfully protected 24 acres of threatened habitat from development. Alongside voter mobilization, strategic fundraising, and federal wildlife protections, they secured $70 million toward the purchase of land.

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  • A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

    July 28, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    The creation of forest gardens—the modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables—are helping supply communities in sub-Saharan Africa with food, medicine, and animal feed. The U.S.-based NGO TREES claims to have created 38,000 active forest gardens in five countries, each comprising about 4,000 trees. This has restored 99,743 acres of degraded land, having reached 56,273 farmers and their families across 174 community projects.

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  • Singapore's regreening is a model for cities everywhere

    July 22, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    Government initiatives, certification programs, ecological consultants, and international environmental associations are all part of Singapore's concerted effort to coexist with its wildlife and reduce impacts of climate change like air pollution and stress.

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  • The Aromatic Roots Indians Turn to for Cooling Relief

    July 14, 2025 |

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    Response Location: India, Bharuch

    Khus (vetiver grass) curtains are a traditional, climate-friendly cooling method in India that is seeing a revival as extreme temperatures rise. Locals hang woven curtains made from dried vetiver roots in doorways or windows and spray them with water throughout the day. As hot air passes through them, evaporative cooling reduces indoor temperatures. This low-cost, low-energy solution has been implemented in homes and public areas like bus stops to combat the heat.

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  • Could beavers be the secret to winning the fight against wildfires?

    July 06, 2025 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Beaver restoration programs across the American West are creating fire-resistant green refuges, improving water storage and quality, and supporting wildlife recovery by partnering with the dam-building rodents rather than eliminating them, demonstrating that a nature-based approach can simultaneously address wildfire risk, drought, and ecosystem degradation.

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  • New App Alerts Users to Rising Rivers and Streams

    July 02, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    RiverAware, an app that uses real-time data from a national network of gauges, has helped citizens, first responders, floodplain managers, scientists, and recreational users such as paddlers and anglers access river-flow data, informing or alerting communities as to when it's time to evacuate or seek higher ground. The data is aggregated from more than 13,000 stream-gauging stations around the country maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Weather Service.

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