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NASA Responds to an S.O.S. of Historic Proportions

Margo Pierce

April 26, 2016 |

Smithsonian |

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Response Location: United States, Huntsville, Alabama

Technology used in outer space has huge potential to mitigate the effects that earthquakes have on buildings in America. Throughout testing and prototyping the project, the NASA team at the Marshall Space Flight Center has found ways that their technology can apply to commercial buildings or even historic monuments, such as the Washington Monument. The technology, disruptive tuned mass, has applications in space as well as in day-to-day life.

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They survived the earthquake. Now they're determined to keep their village healthy.

Sonia Narang

April 25, 2016 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nepal

For one village in Nepal, there's a silver lining to the earthquake: A year later, a new and better health clinic is rising from the rubble of the old. And it includes a birthing center.

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Can we Quake-Proof a City?

Neal Razzell

March 22, 2016 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Nepal

Can we engineer buildings to prevent collapse in earthquakes? The answer is yes, and the Inquiry dives into how better building design can save more and more lives as urban density increases.

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Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World's Water Crisis?

Pauls Toutonghi

March 22, 2016 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: Morocco, Aït Baâmrane

The demand for clean water around the world continues to grow. In arid southwest Morocco, the region may only see “a few hundredths of an inch of rain per year,” which contributes to poor human health, as well as environmental, and economic conditions. A global collaboration with a Moroccan N.G.O. and German organizations have helped to bring clean water to the region with the use of CloudFisher technology that converts sea fog into water.

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A Tale of Two Leaks: Fixed in California, Ignored in Alabama

Neela Banerjee

March 17, 2016 |

Inside Climate News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Eight Mile, Alabama

Eight years after a mercaptan spill in Eight Mile, Alabama, its mostly black and working class residents still suffer from respiratory issues, rashes and headaches.

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How Miami Beach Is Keeping the Florida Dream Alive—And Dry

Sara Solovitch

March 14, 2016 |

Politico |

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Response Location: United States, Miami Beach, Florida

Threatened by increasingly rising sea levels caused by climate change, leaders in Miami Beach are spending equally increasing amounts of money on technology and systems to combat flooding.

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The Farm that Grows Climate Solutions

Eric Toensmeier

March 09, 2016 |

Ensia |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Las Cañadas, Veracruz

A small agricultural co-op in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, has effectively implemented its own approach to climate change. The community adapts the main sector of its economy and livelihood-- farming-- to sustainable practices. "Las Cañadas" has increased the food security and health of the local community while simultaneously decreasing deforestation, soil degradation and carbon emissions.

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How NASA accidentally found a way to make buildings safer during earthquakes

Margo Pierce

February 22, 2016 |

Quartz |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Huntsville, Alabama

NASA developed a new stabilizing technology, known as the LOX Damper, in 2013 after working on a violently shaking rocket. Testing revealed that the technology could help design earthquake-proof buildings.

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After the floods: York and Nijmegen - a tale of two cities

Allan Urry

February 09, 2016 |

BBC |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, York

After record-breaking rainfall and flooding, the city of York was at a loss for relief and reconstruction ideas. They turned to the Dutch city of Nijmegen, which had experienced similar flooding and found a solution in building a relief channel.

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Crossing the Rubicon for disaster response

Catherine Cheney

January 12, 2016 |

Devex |

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Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

Last year, Team Rubicon carried out 35 domestic operations and three international operations, with overlapping missions in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Barikiki, Kiribati, as well as an operation in Roseau, Dominica. The humanitarian organization has two goals: improving overseas disaster response and finding new ways to bring military veterans into humanitarian operations.

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