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Just add water and stir — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover

Leia Larsen

October 12, 2022 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Lone Pine, California

To adjust from L.A. regularly draining Owens Lake for its water supply, locals have found that they can recover the dry lake by simply re-adding water to it, which prevents it from creating toxic dust storms. When water is added to the lake, the environment wakes up and becomes home to several plants and animals, specifically millions of birds, which depend on habitats like Owens Lake when traveling around the world.

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Group led by a university teacher saves Nigerian vulnerable, endangered pangolins from extinction

Oluwatobi Odeyinka

October 12, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

The Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria is a nonprofit educating the public on the importance of the declining pangolin population, the laws against hunting them, and how to keep them from going extinct. The organization also contains a task force to rescue captured pangolins and return them to the wild.

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How to restore PH's lost mangrove forest? An Iloilo town shows the way

Arnel Murga

October 12, 2022 |

Rappler |

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Response Location: Philippines, Iloilo

Leganes Integrated Katunggan Ecopark in the Philippines is a mangrove rehabilitation project in which volunteers planted over 1,700 seedlings to restore a 200-meter greenbelt.

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Waste workers on the frontlines to protect Apo Island from plastic threat

Jhesset Enano

October 11, 2022 |

Rappler |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Philippines, Apo Island

In the Philippines the War on Waste - Negros Oriental started a zero waste project on Apo Island to reduce landfill use and improve waste management. Waste workers train residents how to sort their trash into categories and collect the sorted trash twice a week.

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Record Heat Waves And Droughts Can't Dry Up This Native Garden In Phoenix

Gabriel Pietrorazio

October 10, 2022 |

Next City |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

To tend their urban garden in extreme heat, the healthcare clinic Native Health of Phoenix partners with two nonprofits, Keep Phoenix Beautiful and the Salt River Project, to use flood irrigation techniques built on Huhugam agricultural practices and canals. Every other week during the hottest months 1,600 gallons of water flow through the garden and drain out.

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How Utah can control dust from the Great Salt Lake — and why it will cost lots of money

Leia Larsen

October 10, 2022 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

To prevent particulate matter air pollution from the dried-out Owens Lakebed, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power used a myriad of measures including shallow flooding, tillage, laying gravel, and planting managed vegetation.

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Digging into Minnesota's peat, an underappreciated climate superhero

Dan Kraker

October 10, 2022 |

MPR News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Minnesota

Researchers are studying the peatlands in Minnesota to understand how to best enhance their carbon storage and minimize carbon and methane emissions as the climate warms.

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London's Deadly, Polluted Air Turned the City Into an EV Pioneer

Feargus O'Sullivan Hayley Warren Jeremy C.F. Lin

October 10, 2022 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: England, London

London charges higher-emission vehicles every day they enter the city center, called the Ultra Low Emission Zone, on top of the already existing London Congestion Charge for non-electric vehicles to enter the zone. Since the charges were implemented, the city has seen an increase in electric vehicle adoption and improved air quality.

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Italijos provincijos mokytojo revoliucija: savivaldybėje perpus mažiau atliekų ir net 87 proc. jų išrūšiuojama

Inga Janiulytė-Temporin

October 09, 2022 |

Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Italy, Capannori

Naujai statomas kvartalas netoli Antverpeno gyventojus aprūpina tvaria ir šiuo metu pigesne, nei esanti rinkoje. energija - dalis jos yra perkama iš gretimai esančios gamyklos, kuri - jei neturėtų, kur tos energijos dėti - tiesiog išmestų ją į orą, kita dalis - iš atsinaujinančių energijos šaltinių. Tai pasiekta gyventojams susibūrus į šilumos kooperatyvą, keliantį tikslą investuoti į atsinaujinančią energetiką ir pirkti tik perteklinę energiją iš gamyklų.

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Nuo ūkininkavimo šlapioje pelkėje iki anglies kaupimo: Vokietija ieško būdų, kurie leistų uždirbti iš atkurtų pelkių

Inga Janiulytė-Temporin

October 08, 2022 |

Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Germany

Perėjimas iš sausinimu grįsto žemės ūkio į pelnininkystę užtikrina prarastos ekosistemos atkūrimą ir mažesnį anglies dvideginio išmetimą. Tai pavyko viename Vokietijos ekspertimentiniame ūkyje, kuris, nors dar nėra pelningas, bet gali tapti ateities ūkininkavimo modeliu ir ūkiais, kurie augins biokurą ar šiltinimo bei statybų medžiagas, o tai aktualu, nes Vokietija užsibrėžusi atkurti nemažą dalį iš 94 proc. visų nusausintų savo pelkynų.

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