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  • A Climate Change Success Story? Look at Hoboken.

    Michael Kimmelman

    November 03, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

    After experiencing extreme flooding, Hoboken, New Jersey, has reduced its flood risk by rebuilding its sewers to add capacity and designing new infrastructure, like parks, to collect and redirect storm water.

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  • Colorado's latest tool to fight forest fires: Mushrooms

    Michael Booth

    October 26, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Gold Hill, Colorado

    The Colorado-based mycology center Boulder Mushroom is spreading fungi mycelium — the underground, root-looking part of a mushroom — across forest floors that were thinned to mitigate wildfires. The mushrooms quicken the pace at which sawdust and other potential fire fuel decays and improve soil health.

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  • For Indian Farmers, Artificial Glaciers Are a High-Altitude Antidote to Drought

    Geetanjali Krishna

    October 19, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Kulum

    In the Ladakh region of Northern India, vertical artificial glaciers called “ice stupas” melt at a slower pace than natural glaciers, helping farmers to store water for irrigation during the spring drought. Through contests with cash prizes, more than 500 people in 45 villages have been trained to build their own ice stupas.

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  • AI bots are helping 911 dispatchers with their workload

    Amanda Hernández

    October 16, 2023 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States

    To reduce 911 dispatcher workloads, several U.S. municipalities have integrated AI technology to triage and coordinate responses to non-emergency calls, resulting in more efficient support for callers and less stress on telecommunication workers.

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  • How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

    Elizabeth Fitt

    October 09, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Yemen

    A coalition of governments, oil companies, and individual donors funded the effort to prevent a million-barrel oil spill in the Red Sea from the deteriorating shipping boat the FSO Safer. The funds allowed the United Nations to buy another container ship and transfer all the oil onto that instead.

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  • How to harvest water from clouds of fog

    Kat Lonsdorf Claire Harbage

    October 06, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    As the drought in Kenya drags on, people are collecting water from the air by using plastic to funnel fog off of trees into buckets at night or a machine that pulls water from hot, moisture-filled air like a dehumidifier would.

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  • Making cities 'spongy' could help fight flooding — by steering the water underground

    John Ruwitch

    October 03, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: China, Jinhua

    The concept of “sponge cities” is taking off as a way to prevent flooding. This style of urban design focuses on creating environments that absorb more water with plants and open ground as opposed to pipes and concrete.

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  • The goats fighting fires in Los Angeles

    Lucy Sherriff

    September 26, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Cities in California are turning to goat herders to manage the dead trees and shrubs that become fuel for wildfires. Goats will eat almost anything and are adept at getting to places humans find difficult to reach.

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  • The ancient Sri Lankan 'tank cascades' tackling drought

    Zinara Rathnayake

    September 26, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Maeliya

    A hydraulic network of man-made water tanks built 2,000 years ago, called an ellangawa, collects rainwater that locals in Maeliya, Sri Lanka, can release during the dry season to support the rice crop and recharge the groundwater.

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  • How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

    Bowman Leigh

    September 21, 2023 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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