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  • How Will Asia Stop Severe Air Pollution while Development Rages on?

    August 30, 2019 |

    Global Ground Media |

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    Response Location: China, Beijing

    Air pollution plagues much of Asia, but a handful of countries are putting energy and resources towards lessening the rising health concerns that come from breathing unclean air. From leveraging technology to create cheaper yet more effective air filters to government mandates, the countries are experimenting with a variety of solutions.

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  • Heat is deadly—even in Montana. But the city of Missoula is doing something about it.

    August 29, 2019 |

    The Daily Climate |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    Adapting to climate change takes planning and partnerships. In Missoula, Montana, partnerships with nonprofits like Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX) and Climate Smart Missoula reinforce the city’s climate planning. TEX connects cities and urban planners with professors, experts, and other nonprofits that can assist in tackling climate change issues. By layering socioeconomic data over a heat map of the city, TEX scientists could reveal populations at highest risk of extreme temperature impacts. The team then shared data with health officials, policy makers, and the community.

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  • How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate change

    August 17, 2019 |

    NBC News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sweden

    All over the world, more than 2 million children and teens are participating in classroom walkouts in an effort to bring attention to the severity of climate change. Called, Fridays for the Future, leaders of the movement are gaining traction, and have developed a declaration that emphasizes their demand that world leaders do something to stop the rising global temperature. This movement was sparked by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, who, at 16-years old, has started this movement, spoken to global leaders, and continues to do what’s needed to demand action in the face of climate change.

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  • South Mountain HS cross-country team pushing for electric school buses

    August 16, 2019 |

    KPHO-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Because of a collaborative effort between a high school cross country team and Chispa, an environmental advocacy group, Arizona’s Phoenix Union High School District has bought its first electric school bus. While nearly three times more expensive than a regular school bus, the school district considered the long-term sustainability, not just in terms of fuel and maintenance costs, but in regards to larger, environmental efforts as well.

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  • Watershed moment: How Chesapeake Bay turned its H2O around

    August 15, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Annapolis, Maryland

    After decades of conservation and cleanup, the 42% of the entire Chesapeake Bay meets water quality standards. The Chesapeake Bay Program organized a regional collaboration between nonprofits, the government, and educational institutions, worked together to protect and clean the Bay, which is home to fishing, tourism, and agriculture. While much progress has been made, the group recognizes the amount of work left if they are to ever see a majority clean watershed.

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  • Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

    August 14, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Sizwe, Gauteng

    Drug-resistant cases of tuberculosis have been known to be impossible to cure, but a new drug trial in South Africa has changed the outcome for many suffering from this diagnosis. Although the trial that implements a three-drug regimen over the course of several months is still fairly new to the market, it has already gained approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

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  • Can We Change Our Behavior or are We Stuck?

    August 14, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Australia, Melbourne

    When Melbourne, Australia came close to running out of water in 2008, the water utility conducted a behavioral study to launch an effective communications campaign aimed at reducing water usage among city residents. Along with the effective advertising campaign, the city distributed water-efficient shower heads, offered rebates to people who bought water-efficient machines, and used other "nudge" techniques like telling people how much water they used in relation to neighbors.

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  • The desert gets a biocrust skin graft

    August 09, 2019 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Alamos, New Mexico

    Scientists in southeast America are trying to rebuild the natural biocrusts that existed centuries ago. The biocrusts, which are concentrations of cyanobacteria, moss, and lichens, are a crucial part of ecosystems in its ability to prevent erosion and soil degradation. Researchers across the region have been growing them in labs, but the implementation into the environment has posed challenges.

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  • Counselors engage new parents before vaccine hesitancy hardens

    August 05, 2019 |

    STAT |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sherbrooke, Quebec

    In a handful of hospitals throughout Canada, vaccination counselors are helping to relieve new parents' trepidation toward infant and child vaccinations. By engaging in a "motivational interview" immediately before the child is born rather than waiting until the two-year check-up, doctors are finding that parents are increasingly willing to go through with the vaccinations as opposed to those who did not have an in-person conversation.

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  • How Do You Stop Abusive Relationships? Teach Teens How to Be Respectful Partners

    July 29, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A program called RAPP (Relationship Abuse Prevention Program) uses safe spaces for teens to talk about their romantic relationships with both peer and adult leaders as a way to prevent abusive relationships through education. It is supported by New York City's Human Resources Administration, the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, Day One, and Steps to End Violence and Urban Resource Institute (URI). The program is now in 94 schools across the city, and participants / peer leaders testify to how much it changed their lives.

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