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  • How Mongolia's nomads are adapting to climate change

    Jacopo Pasotti

    July 24, 2017 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Mongolia

    Mongolia’s nomadic, pastoral families are banding together to strengthen their resilience in the face of climate change. With their economic livelihoods dependent on livestock production, they feel the effects of warming temperatures more than many. By combining their resources and communally managing their pastures, they’ve been able to be less vulnerable to severe weather.

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  • How the Fastest-Warming City in the Country Is Cooling Off

    Erica Peterson

    December 09, 2014 |

    Politico |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    Although residents turn up their air conditioners, Louisville heat is increasing the city’s death rate by 39 people every year. The city mayor launched a tree commission for planting more trees and since 2011 has planted over 12,000 trees. The canopies from the tree offer cooling shade and bring down the temperature of the city as a whole. The response also includes the installation of green roofs and in-depth research on urban heat islands.

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  • Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

    Wanjohi Kabukuru

    March 29, 2014 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Victoria

    Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.

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  • Bridging the Clothing Divide

    David Bornstein

    October 03, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    In the poorest places, the lack of proper clothing costs lives. Now a simple and efficient program in India is attacking the problem with the urgency it deserves.

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