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Seaweed Inc.: As climate threatens lobster, Maine eyes new cash crop

Stephanie Hanes

July 05, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Maine

As harvesting lobsters becomes more uncertain along the Maine coast due to climate change, many fishers are turning to kelp farming as a way to diversify their income. Atlantic Sea Farms purchases 1 million pounds of kelp a year from dozens of farmers resulting in The Pine Tree State becoming one of the top aquaculture producers in the United States.

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Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan

June 06, 2022 |

Mongabay |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Thailand, Ban Mae Sa Mai, Chiang Mai Province

Collaboration between the Hmong community, researchers, and park authorities in northern Thailand has allowed them to work together to restore the forest in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. Between 1997 and 2013, they used assisted regeneration to restoring 33 hectares of forest, which also increased the area’s natural flora and fauna. Because of their efforts, their approach is being implemented in tropical forests around the world, including Cambodia, Madagascar, and Tanzania.

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How Stony Brook University Scientists Gave Shinnecock Bay a New Life

Rafael Cruvinel

June 02, 2022 |

SBU J-Drive |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

After planting clams in Shinnecock Bay in 2012, scientists at Stony Brook University were able to reverse the trends of red tide in the coastal New York waters. The bay restoration project resulted in 400,000 square meters of seagrass regrowth and the local clam population significantly grew.

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Carbon credits versus the Big Gulp

Katherine Ellison

May 12, 2022 |

Hothouse Solutions |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Twitchell Island, California

By planting cattails and tule reeds in a California Delta farmland, scientists hope to change the area into a marsh with peat that can store carbon dioxide. This would also support levees from failing and prevent salty ocean water from ruining crops and threatening drinking water. Managing this kind of landscape can be expensive, and farmers are not always on board with converting their land, but this pilot project has already doled out 52,000 tons of carbon credit making it the first wetland project in the United States to do so.

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How farmers in Earth's least developed country grew 200 million trees

Katarina Höije, Craig Welch

April 27, 2022 |

National Geographic |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Niger

After years of drought and land-clearing that left Niger with few trees left, the country now boasts about 200 million trees, which have mostly been reestablished naturally. While the effects of climate change could threaten the future of these trees, this method has also increased crop yields in villages. This model of letting trees grow back with little human influence could be implemented in other countries.

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Why a dry Chilean lagoon matters to the future of the Great Salt Lake

Amy Joi O'Donoghue

April 22, 2022 |

KUER Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Chile

Burdened by extreme drought, water diversions, and a lack of regulation, Lake Acuelo in Chile dried up. Now, researchers are learning from this slow-moving ecological disaster to help other lakes in trouble, like Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

Sandra Weiss

March 25, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Honduras, Rotán

Bay Islands Conservation Association is an environmental organization in Rotán, Honduras, working with local communities to balance tourism and the safety of the natural environment. It does so through science and data collection, supporting and informing authorities, and educating the communities.

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From Fish Waste to Community Wealth

Meenakshi J

March 17, 2022 |

Hakai Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Chennai

A government agency in India is turning fishing waste into useful commodities, which help both the environment and the community. Discarded fish parts often littered the beaches near fish markets, leaving a stench and a mess that stigmatized the neighborhood. Now the parts are being processed and sold as fertilizers leading to a cleaner community, less waste, and a much-needed alternative source of income in the fishing community.

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The frontline of conservation: how Indigenous guardians are reinforcing sovereignty and science on their lands

Jimmy Thomson

March 12, 2022 |

The Narwhal |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

Over many months, the Wuikinuxv Guardian Watchmen in British Columbia, Canada, patrol about 2,000 square kilometers of the coast by boat, and they're doing everything from warding off poachers to participating in scientific studies. Since it’s rare to see government vessels monitoring the area, many Indigenous communities throughout Canada have created these guardian programs as a way to conserve and protect their land.

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Researchers use waste glass to clean up polluted sea

Yui Sawada

March 09, 2022 |

J-Stories |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Japan, Nagasaki

The beach in Omura Bay in Japan isn’t a normal beach covered in sand: It’s covered in glass. This glass beach, developed by the Nagasaki Prefectural Environmental Health Research Center, is meant to recycle waste from the ocean and promote the growth of shellfish to maintain the water’s health. After five years, the center has seen about 525 clams per square meter, an increase over previous years.

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