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  • Billions spent, miles to go: The story of California's failure to build high-speed rail

    September 08, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California's troubled high-speed rail project—hampered by inexperienced management, inadequate upfront funding, and poor route selection—demonstrates why successful infrastructure mega-projects require experienced agencies, full financing commitments, and streamlined implementation strategies.

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  • Can filtering seawater provide for a thirsty world?

    September 08, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    Morocco's implementation of seawater desalination plants has successfully provided drinking water to 1.6 million people and enabled record agricultural exports for large-scale tomato producers, while simultaneously revealing the technology's limitations in addressing broader water needs due to high costs, geographic constraints, and environmental impacts that benefit only well-funded farms near coastal facilities.

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  • "One City" to Cut Poverty

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building helps coordinate anti-poverty programs between different departments and offers a wide range of job services, such as career counseling, vocational programs, work-based learning initiatives, and adult education courses. The office is the cornerstone of the city’s efforts to drastically reduce its rate of poverty, which has decreased by roughly 10 percent over the past 13 years.

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  • Stop me, Minnesota shooter wrote. Missed clues sidelined state's red flag law.

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    A Minnesota law allows both citizens and members of law enforcement to petition for someone’s guns to be taken if they’re showing signs that they may be a threat to themselves or others, otherwise known as a red flag law. But though the shooter in a 2025 attack made social media posts that could have triggered the law, no one reported these concerns, and most of the state’s 87 counties have yet to use the law at all.

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  • How drones and AI are changing the way we fight wildfires

    September 02, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    The U.S. Forest Service's drone program has rapidly scaled from 734 flights in 2019 to over 17,000 in 2024, enabling safer and more efficient wildfire management by replacing dangerous pilot reconnaissance missions with unmanned thermal imaging that can detect hotspots and guide ground crews more precisely.

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  • Plateau Farmers Turn to Land Documents to Reclaim Their Fields Amid Violence

    August 29, 2025 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Norwegian Refugee Council's land documentation project helped over 2,000 farmers in Plateau State obtain formal land tenure documents, providing legal security and reducing land disputes, but cannot protect them from ongoing violent attacks that continue to threaten their lives and livelihoods.

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  • The invisible ‘giant nets' that catch the smallest songbirds

    August 27, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Canada

    The Motus network—a collaborative system of 2,200 radio towers across 34 countries that track tiny migratory animals using lightweight tags—has successfully mapped previously unknown migration routes for over 55,000 animals across 450+ species, revolutionizing conservation research for small songbirds and other creatures too tiny for traditional GPS tracking.

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  • University Brains To Solve City Problems

    August 26, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    To improve traffic flow, the city of Pittsburgh partnered with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who helped develop an AI-powered traffic signal system that helped significantly reduce emissions and idling time at stop lights. The collaboration grew into a long-term initiative called Metro21 Smart Cities Institute that brings academics and public officials together to work on municipal issues.

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  • 'Historic': how Mexico's welfare policies helped 13.4 million people out of poverty

    August 18, 2025 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    During the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico roughly tripled its minimum wage and instituted universal cash transfers for elderly residents and others in need, which helped reduce the number of people living under the poverty line by nearly 26 percent. But some people are still falling through the cracks and advocates say more could be done to reach the country’s most vulnerable.

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  • Despite federal cuts to higher ed, Mass. free community college presses on, transforming students' lives

    August 17, 2025 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    The MassReconnect program makes community college free for students over 25 without a bachelor’s degree, while the MassEducate program helps cover tuition and fees for all Massachusetts residents. Since the programs were launched, the state has seen both enrollment and student retention rates go up, and students are transferring from community colleges to four-year universities.

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