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  • Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil

    March 13, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Kapawi

    The Kara Solar Foundation is looking to connect indigenous communities in Achuar territory in Ecuador to learn about solar power as an alternative to oil. By building solar-powered canoes, they can replace vessels that burn fossil fuels into the atmosphere. While the two boats in operation have run into technical problems, the intercultural training programs are instructing Achuar people on how to fix the technology. “Sustained and truly intercultural collaborations can create technological solutions that serve indigenous communities, rather than destroying them,” says Oliver Utne, the foundation's founder.

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  • In Kenya, herders turn an invasive cactus into biofuel

    March 12, 2020 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Laikipia County

    The invasive prickly pear cactus is spreading over grazing lands in Kenya and is harming herders’ livestock. So a local environmental science graduate is testing a system to turn the cacti into biogas. While the system can be expensive to install, the gas can be used for cooking and fertilizer, which can free up time for pastoralists and reduce the amount of firewood used. The graduate is training eight women’ groups to use the system.

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  • How the Dutch Are Building Coastal Protection for Less — With Nature's Help

    March 06, 2020 |

    The Times-Picayune |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Ter Heidje

    As climate change threatens many countries’ coasts, the Netherlands embarked on an experiment to improve their storm and flood defenses. Called the Zandmotor, this beach project is a nature-based solution to protect the coastline from rising seas and more intense storms. This idea in water protection and coastal management could be helpful in Louisiana where they face similar threats from climate change, but finances and federal laws have proved a challenge.

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  • The Dutch have mastered water for a millennium. Could their new approach save New Orleans?

    March 06, 2020 |

    The Times-Picayune |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Hoek Van Holland

    As New Orleans and the Louisiana coast become increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels, the city is looking to the example of the Netherlands in using nature as a tool in coastal preservation. In the Netherlands, the Maeslant storm surge barrier was built 23 years ago with the ability to block out waters to prevent flooding. In recent years, however, the Dutch have adapted: using green roofs, adding trees as an extra defense in front of levees, and looking to nature more and more to protect cities in the age of climate change.

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  • Alaskan Roulette

    February 25, 2020 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Old Harbor, Alaska

    An initiative called the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research is the state’s first coordinated testing effort to ensure that harvesters are not selling shellfish that contain paralytic shellfish poisoning. The program keeps track of data from 42 beaches in southern Alaska. However, the program only covers a small part of the active fishing sites in the state, so data is limited. But since the testing program was set up, no one at those sites have become sick.

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  • Montana's Grand Prairie Experiment

    February 21, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Malta, Montana

    According to the WWF, 69 percent of the Northern Great Plains remains untilled, providing great opportunity for making sure that land remains untouched. Two conservation organizations, the Nature Conservancy and the American Prairie Reserve, are butting heads as they both try to preserve the land, albeit via different means. Although they both face opposition for their methods, this article lays out exactly how both have already managed to make great strides in conserving the land and increasing biodiversity.

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  • How a Beloved Bird Is Helping Save the Chesapeake Bay

    February 18, 2020 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesapeake, Maryland

    The Natural Lands Project works with local landowners to turn hundreds of hectares of marginal croplands into native grasslands. The grasses offer refuge for the northern bobwhite quail and grip the soil, which helps prevent erosion and keeps agricultural runoff and sediment out of the Chesapeake Bay. The quail population has grown to 450, a 39% increase from 20 years ago. The project works with landowners to convert small parcels of their land for the habitat. The landowners receive a small payment and help planting and maintaining the native vegetation. Many species have flourished in the new habitat.

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  • The Bitter Side of Cocoa Production

    February 13, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Dominican Republic

    Carla Martin is an anthropologist at Harvard University, who also founded the Nine Cacao and Chocolate Institute — a nonprofit that brings together industry professionals, academics, and producers to share insights and discuss the challenges of producing chocolate. Cocoa production historically has participated in questionable labor practices, unfair wages, and tropical deforestation, so through her workshops, Martin aims to empower the workers along the supply chain to ensure their voices are heard through the process.

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  • The Coral Ark That Hopes to Save Florida's Ailing Reefs

    February 12, 2020 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

    The Coral Rescue Project is trying to save coral reefs, and their newest tool is a series of arks at Nova Southeastern University that will house and study corals that are under threat of a mysterious carribean disease. So far, they have collected 1,747 colonies and are storing them in the arks and at zoos across the U.S.The hope is that ultimately, the reefs can be restored to their ocean home in Florida.

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  • Artificial reefs breathe new life for Tamil Nadu's fishing communities

    February 11, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu

    After climate change led to a declining fish catch, fishermen in Tamil Nadu experimented with artificial reefs to boost biodiversity that would provide fishermen with a better catch. Artificial reefs can serve many purposes, but it must identify the needs of the community before it can be successfully implemented. Only a year later nearly 60 concrete structures have been built around the city and fishermen report bigger catches.

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