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Nature's Carbon Sponges: Restoring Meadows in the Sierra Nevada

Elizabeth Walsh

May 16, 2024 |

The Hitchcock Project |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, California

The Nevada Irrigation District is restoring meadows, and therefore their carbon-sequestering abilities, in the Sierra Nevada mountains that were degraded by humans through things like building dams and mining.

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Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving

Peter Yeung

May 13, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: England, London

A volunteer-run community organization is reintroducing beavers to London as part of a larger rewilding effort. The beavers are alleviating flooding and helping biodiversity thrive in the eight-hectare public park they live in by building dams and canals.

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The 'Save the Oceans' Tax Break: Recycling Oyster Shells

Kailyn Rhone

May 11, 2024 |

Wall Street Journal |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Sometimes bolstered by state tax credits, oyster recycling projects across the United States are encouraging restaurants to save their oyster shells, which are used to restore reefs instead of ending up as waste.

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A Peruvian river with rights: the defenders of the Marañón

Silvia Viñas Eliezer Budasoff

May 04, 2024 |

El Hilo |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Peru

A group of Kukama women, a native community of the Peruvian Amazon, worked with lawyers from the Legal Defense Institute to sue the Peruvian State. The lawsuit was intended prevent and clean up oil spills and pollution in the Marañón River that they’d been fighting against for years. In a historic ruling, the judge recognized that the river has rights and must be protected.

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U.S. East Coast adopts 'living shorelines' approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner

April 24, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Blue Hill, Maine

Contractors and homeowners in Maine are installing living shorelines to deal with the effects of rising sea levels and stronger storms caused by climate change. As opposed to concrete jetties and breakwaters, living shorelines use natural materials like logs, salt-tolerant plants, and coconut fiber to protect the land from erosion and create valuable habitat for local animals.

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Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts

Kimberley Brown

April 22, 2024 |

BBC |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

The startup Ichthion created a system that skims plastic off of rivers in Ecuador to prevent it from reaching the ocean. A floating barrier stretches across the river to catch the plastic without disrupting fish, and a person manually guides the pollution onto the shore where it’s sorted for recycling.

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Fighting fire with beavers: How dam-building rodents are deployed to prevent megafires, restore scorched wildlands

Bay Stephens

April 19, 2024 |

The Colorado Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

Riverscapes inhabited by beavers fare far better than other areas during extreme wildfires because they hold back and spread out water, pushing it further into the ground. These spaces become critical pockets of habitat for animals to shelter in and can function as fire breaks. Restoration experts in Colorado are building structures that mimic beaver dams in hopes of replicating the effect and, if they’re lucky, incentivizing beavers to return.

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Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling

April 16, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Barbados

Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean are collecting harmful sargassum seaweed that washes up on the beaches and turning it into agricultural products that reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. Red Diamond Compost, for example, uses growth-stimulating hormones from the seaweed to create a soil additive that improves plants’ ability to absorb nutrients.

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How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

Lydia DePillis

April 04, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Benjamin Goldfarb

March 26, 2024 |

Hakai Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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