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  • The Science of Fighting Wildfires Gets a Satellite Boost

    September 11, 2017 |

    Wired |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada

    Climate change is only worsening the frequency and ferocity of forest fires. Projects such as researching what makes trees more susceptible to fires, and having satellites send images of fires as they happen, in order to help forest services react most effectively, are new ideas being researched and implemented.

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  • Pueblo of Santa Ana Works To Restore Habitat & Bring Back Wildlife

    September 07, 2017 |

    KNME-PBS |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico

    The local tribe in the Pueblo of Santa Ana in New Mexico has been working on restoring their land for some time in order to maintain the health of the ecosystem and their culture. They've since expanded through collaboration efforts with state and local government that have helped reintroduce species and further restore the area.

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  • Humans are damaging the fragile Galapagos ecosystem. Maybe coffee can help save it.

    August 23, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Ecuador, Galápagos

    Scalesia, is a species of tree native to the Galapagos Islands that is quickly disappearing thanks to human activity. With much of the island's wildlife dependent on this tree, the ecosystem is threatened with the tree's extinction. Conservationists have taken action, however, by planting thousands of the trees as part of a shade-grown coffee operation.

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  • These Tree-Planting Drones Are About To Start An Entire Forest From The Sky

    August 10, 2017 |

    FastCompany |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Myanmar, Pathein, Ayeyarwady

    Villages along the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar have spent years replanting mangroves in at attempt to restore their ecosystem and guard against the negative effects of climate change, but it is a labor intensive and time-consuming process. Now, with the help of specially-designed tree planting drones from startup BioCarbon Engineering, as many as 10,000 trees can be planted in a single day, using technology that not only distributes seeds in special pods, but is able to calculate optimal soil conditions, locations, and species of tree most likely to survive in any given area.

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  • Conundrum Hot Springs Has A Poop Problem, So You May Have To Bag Your Business

    July 17, 2017 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Aspen, Colorado

    Hikers in Conundrum Hot Springs often do not properly dispose of their human waste, burying it or leaving it in the open where it can contaminate the water or make the trails less enjoyable. "Wag bags" are bags distributed to hikers to put their waste in and hike it out of the area and to a trash can.

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  • America's ring of fire

    June 17, 2017 |

    Reveal |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Flagstaff, Arizona

    After a wildfire in 2010 burned 15,000 acres outside Flagstaff, triggering evacuations and a fatal landslide, voters approved a $10 million bond issue to transform the local fire department and fire-prevention practices. Part 4 of a package of stories on rampant homebuilding in wildfire-prone forests (starts at 35:25) tells how firefighters spend most of their time cutting trees to thin the forest to mimic its pre-settlement form, when periodic fires were a normal and small-scale threat. Suppressing all fires, letting forests thicken, and building homes in them calls for a new prevention ethos.

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  • U-Haul Invests in New England Wild Spaces

    June 15, 2017 |

    Triple Pundit |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Success, New Hampshire

    U-Haul and supermarket supplier C&S Wholesale Grocers are striving to help offset their wood use by increasing donations to The Conservation Fund. This partnership has led to the promotion of the conservation of the Success Pond and its surrounding forest, the establishment of newly planted trees, and a significant investment in land easements that will restore and protect native habitats.

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  • Communities band together to protect El Salvador's last mangroves

    May 23, 2017 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: El Salvador

    Hurricane Mitch, deforestation, and flooding, were all factors that led to the decline of mangrove trees in El Salvador. The Mangrove Association, a coalition of 80 communities, is bringing the mangrove population back up.

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  • Indigenous peoples in Colombia play crucial role in the fight against climate change

    March 30, 2017 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Colombia

    Protecting forests against deforestation is key to reducing CO2 emissions, which is what the UN mechanism- REDD+ aims to do by creating contracts with rural areas for them to protect their area's forest for 30 years in exchange for compensation. So far several problems have arisen that question the effectiveness of this mechanism which need attention going forward.

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  • A beneficial way to dispose of the Sierra's lost trees: Use them for energy

    March 07, 2017 |

    Los Angeles Times |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    What do you do with 102 million dead trees, strewn across the Sierra Nevada’s forests? According to California’s Forest Service, something productive; previously left to stand in place and risk spreading fire at a much faster rate, the trees are now being used to produce energy. Though this solution had been tested in the 1990s and was found to produce more environmental harm than good, a few small, innovative companies are now working to extract energy through an environmentally sound method.

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