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  • Local organizations offer climate education for Boston-area kids

    Elisabeth Hadjis Cassidy McNeeley

    May 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Because Massachusetts has few requirements around incorporating climate change into school curriculums, organizations such as Eastie Farm, Climate Action Through Education, and Spring Forward work to fill the gaps both in and out of the classroom. Through hands-on learning opportunities, ready-made lesson plans, and youth-led workshops, the organizations aim to improve students' climate literacy in a way that feels relevant to their daily lives.

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  • Mekong shrimp farmers less keen to share space with mangroves

    Nhung Nguyen

    May 12, 2023 |

    The Third Pole |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    Farmers in Vietnam use integrated shrimp-mangrove ponds to produce organic shrimp for a higher profit while preserving endangered native mangroves. When practicing traditional shrimp farming, the mangrove forests would be cleared but leaving the trees near the water provides nutrients and breeding grounds for the shrimp.

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  • New Indonesia climate fund backs Indigenous forest guardians

    Michael Taylor Asad Asnawi

    May 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    The Nusantra Fund provides financial support directly to community-led projects in Indonesia. The aim is to improve the livelihoods of Indigenous and local people while tackling climate change impacts and protecting biodiversity.

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  • House of tails: a Kyiv shelter helps animals with disabilities

    Alice Smahina

    May 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Irpin, Kyiv

    A Ukrainian animal rights activist opened the House of Tails animal shelter to provide special care for dogs and cats with disabilities. Though her work started before the war, many of the 70 animals in her care now were injured or abandoned due to the war.

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  • India's solar power push delivers an unexpected bonus - empowering rural women

    Disha Shetty

    May 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, Rajasthan

    With the help of funding from foundations and charities, Indian women’s groups such as the Dooni dairy cooperative are leveraging solar power to simplify their work and help their businesses grow. Since purchasing solar-powered fridges to store extra milk, most women in the dairy cooperative have seen their profits double.

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  • Start-ups see sustainable future in seaweed farming

    Esan Swan

    May 11, 2023 |

    Financial Times |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    Companies are beginning to grow offshore seaweed for human consumption as a protein option that’s better for the environment. Growing seaweed on ropes in the ocean is less land-intensive, sequesters carbon, and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticides.

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  • Resource-rich countries find it pays to pay landholders to protect their land

    Dimitri Selibas

    May 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    Guatemala’s reforestation programs pay farmers to keep their lands forested instead of clearing them for farming. The annual $380 payment each participant receives for 5 to 10 years comes from the general taxes collected by the government.

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  • Honey production sweetens snow leopard conservation in Kyrgyzstan

    Monica Pelliccia

    May 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Kyrgyzstan, Shamshy

    Two conservation organizations are helping communities in Kyrgyzstan diversify their sources of income from livestock to include beekeeping, agroecology, ecotourism, and crafts. These efforts are preventing conflicts with snow leopards to conserve the local population. And some of the money made from the program goes towards funding environmental projects chosen by the community.

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  • A Perfect Storm: How the deadly 2022 Durban floods hold crucial lessons for the future of the city and others like it

    Leonie Joubert

    May 10, 2023 |

    Daily Maverick |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Durban

    A community-based, early-warning system for flooding in Durban, South Africa, gave community members an early enough evacuation order so that no lives were lost. The system uses information from Weather Service reports to know when and where to monitor real-time local conditions. When a community member or member of the disaster management unit sees the conditions are becoming dangerous, they use messaging apps to warn the community.

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  • The Mexican family who gave up fishing to monitor and rescue sea turtles

    Astrid Arellano

    May 09, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Kino Bay, Sonora

    A family of former fishers created the Kino Bay Turtle Group to monitor sea turtles in Mexico’s La Cruz Lagoon. The conservationists work to rescue and tag turtles entangled in fishing gear, track the population, and educate the public about their importance.

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