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  • The Battle to Keep Ho Chi Minh City Above Water

    Jesse Hardman

    January 22, 2015 |

    New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

    Geography and climate change challenge the viability of sea-level cities in Vietnam, but architects, researchers, and urban planners work together to find creative solutions. One architect in Ho Chi Minh City designed green roofs to absorb the rainwater that causes floods.

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  • Scientists are putting seals to work to gather ocean current data

    Chris Benjamin

    December 10, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Antarctica

    The Seal Mammal Research Unit at the University of St. Andrews is recruiting and tagging pinnipeds to gather details on ocean conductivity, temperature and depth, collectively called “CTD profiles.” When tagged animals surface, the data they’ve collected are relayed to a global satellite system, decoded by computers, and disseminated to researchers.

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  • Man-Made Wetlands Turn Toilet Water Into Tap Water

    Lorraine Chow

    August 27, 2014 |

    NationSwell |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fairfield, Texas

    Facing repeated droughts, Texas is pioneering a method to turn wastewater into drinking water. Although the process is not quick, the results have lead to an additional 65,000 gallons of drinking water and benefited the local environment, providing wildlife with a new habitat.

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  • The Lady of the Mangroves

    Wanjohi Kabukuru

    May 18, 2014 |

    Seychelles News Agency |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Bel Air

    The 2004 tsunami that hit Asia caused significant damage in the islands of the Seychelles, destroying roads, homes, and shoreline. A teacher determined to restore her home through tangible action took a lead role in helping her students take conservation into their own hands by working to restore the mangroves that can protect their island from future storms.

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  • Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

    Wanjohi Kabukuru

    March 29, 2014 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Victoria

    Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.

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  • Scientists search Palau's coral reefs for new anti-cancer drugs

    Ari Daniel Shapiro

    February 24, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Palau

    Often it is faster and easier to harvest molecules for medical purposes from nature than to make them in a laboratory. A scientist is looking for cancer-fighting molecules in coral and sponges in the tropical Pacific.

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  • Eco-tourism in Peru: Community engagement and preserving biodiversity

    Dan Collyns

    July 08, 2013 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Peru, Tambopata

    Rainforest Expeditions, an innovative eco-tourism company in Peru, helps the local economy while also promoting conservation of the natural rainforest. By working with Infierno, the local indigenous community in a southeast part of Peru, the tourism company has empowered locals. The Inferno families are shareholders in the local lodges and have found career paths through this. Perhaps most important: as local people have a stake in tourism, they also have a stake in maintaining the rainforest. 


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  • Is there a way through the West's bitter wild horse wars?

    Dave Philipps

    November 19, 2012 |

    High Country News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    After controversy over the removal wild horse populations, the Bureau of Land Management was tasked with the order of protecting wild horse populations. After years of protection, however, the wild horse population has grown to an unsustainable amount. To mitigate the damage to the rural landscape while still maintaining a reasonable wild horse population, researchers are focusing their efforts on teaching wild horse advocates how to administer a form of birth control via dart.

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  • Harnessing Local Pride for Global Conservation

    David Bornstein

    February 09, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Philippines

    The World Conservation Union estimates that 40 percent of the more than 40,000 species it tracks on its Red List are close to extinction and this problem requires humans to change their behavior to fix it. Rare’s the Pride Campaign uses social marketing to attract attention and communicate the conservation message between local communities and government entities. The Pride Campaign has been replicated around the world for different conservation efforts to protect biodiversity.

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