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  • The white roofs cooling women's homes in Indian slums

    Vandana K

    June 28, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

    The nonprofit Mahila Housing Trust provides women in India who are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat and heat-related illness with white solar reflective paint for the roofs of their homes. Painting the roofs white cools the inside of the homes by several degrees.

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  • Climate Change: How Nigerian Community is Adapting Farming Practices to Dry Season

    Dare Akogun

    June 06, 2023 |

    DA News |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Likpata, Kwara

    Nigerian farmers are adapting their practices to the dry season to avoid disastrous flooding during the rainy months. They use techniques like drip irrigation to conserve water by delivering it directly to plant roots and are cultivating drought-resistant crops. The government helps supports farmers in this endeavor by providing seedlings and fertilizer, too.

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  • Cities Are Becoming More Like Sponges

    Peter Yeung

    May 30, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: China, Haikou, Hainan

    One of China’s many “sponge cities,” Haikou, experiences virtually no flooding after transitioning to primarily green, nature-based infrastructure instead of gray infrastructure like concrete and flood barriers. Prioritizing things like parks, wetlands, mangroves, and permeable pavement allows the city’s ground to soak up more rain.

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  • Bangladesh tests climate finance for disaster-hit communities

    Tahmid Zami

    May 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Several organizations provide financial support like green bonds and insurance to farmers in Bangladesh to help protect them from crop loss caused by climate change disasters.

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  • ‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem': Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles

    Nina Lakhani

    May 29, 2023 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are participating in a study to find out if cover cropping is a viable method to improve yields or reduce costs in a region harried by unpredictable weather and water scarcity. In some cases, the cover crops they’ve planted between growing seasons improved soil health and prevented wind erosion.

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  • Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC's Canopy

    Brian Roewe

    May 25, 2023 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A collaboration between tree-planting organizations in Washington D.C. helps Catholic church properties to plant and care for trees. The free trees are an effort to combat urban heat and benefit the local environment.

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  • Barrages anti-érosion : au Sénégal «on a même vu de l'herbe repousser»

    Théo du Couëdic

    May 19, 2023 |

    Libération |

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    Response Location: Senegal, Diogué

    L’île de Diogué est le site pilote du système d’épis ­Maltais-Savard, qui installe des barrages avec des matériaux naturels, comme des troncs d’eucalyptus et des feuilles de palmier, pour lutter contre l’érosion. La méthode a permis de récupérer plusieurs mètres de plage.

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  • How indigenous women farmers in Mexico are using agroforestry to save the world's favorite drink

    Magdalena Rojo

    May 15, 2023 |

    Unbias The News |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Guadalupe Buenavista, Oaxaca

    Coffee growers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are renovating their plantations into agroforestry systems to adapt to the effects of climate change. The new growing style integrates native trees and shrubs to diversify the fields. This makes the plants more resistant to unpredictable weather, diseases, and pests.

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  • Zai Pits Providing Food Security Amidst Adverse Climate Change in Kibwezi

    Kioko Nyamasyo

    May 11, 2023 |

    Rongo University |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kibwezi

    Farmers in Kenya are digging pits — called Zai Pits — re-filling them with soil mixed with manure and planting maize seeds in them. This practice allows the farmers to have successful harvests during droughts with minimal rainfall.

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  • Stilt Houses: How an Ancient Architectural Design Could Become a Climate Solution

    Ethan Brown

    May 05, 2023 |

    The Sweaty Penguin |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    When designed well, houses built on elevated platforms supported by stilts can help coastal communities adapt to climate change by reducing flood risk.

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