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  • Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

    April 22, 2022 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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

    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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  • Can Small Seaweed Farms Help Kelp Scale Up?

    March 16, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Atlantic Sea Farms strives to create sustainable ocean livelihoods by growing seaweed, which is good for both people and the planet. It's nutritionally dense, provides an extra source of revenue for fishermen, and is environmentally low impact. Ongoing studies also indicate it might absorb carbon dioxide in the ocean and tamp down ocean acidification. In 2018, Atlantic Sea Farms was producing 30,000 wet pounds of seaweed a year but expects a harvest of 1.2 million pounds this year, making it the largest in the U.S.

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

    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

    March 09, 2022 |

    J-Stories |

    Text |

    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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  • Reinvent Utah farms to save our soil and Great Salt Lake?

    February 25, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Farmers in Utah practice no-till farming to improve soil health and water retention amid an ongoing drought.

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  • How to Plant Millions of Oysters in a Day

    February 17, 2022 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Annapolis, Maryland

    Conservationists are injecting millions of baby oysters into the Chesapeake Bay region to boost the native populations and improve the water quality. With their efforts, they’ve been able to restore 10 tributaries and about 324 hectares of oyster reefs have been restored.

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  • How Birds Keep the Pajaro River Levees Safe

    December 06, 2021 |

    Bay Nature Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    Rodents can weaken critical river levees. Instead of poisoning them, leading to ripple effects up the food chain, levee managers on the Pajaro River in California are encouraging raptors to patrol the area.

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  • Areas hard hit by B.C. drought now the target of bottled water corporations

    November 21, 2021 |

    The Narwhal |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Merville, British Columbia

    The Merville Water Guardians, the Canadian Freshwater Alliance, and K’ómoks First Nation successfully prevented rezoning that would allow water to be drawn from shared aquifers, bottled, and sold for private profits. Protests at District board meetings, letter writing campaigns, petitions, and door-to-door campaigning led the District board to vote against the rezoning and sign an historic agreement to collaboratively manage and conserve water with the K’ómoks First Nation.

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  • Want to Solve Wildfires and Drought? Leave it to BEAVERS!

    November 18, 2021 |

    PBS |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Beavers can be a tool in the fight against climate change. The dams that beavers build have multiple benefits for the environment. Studies show that beaver complexes are greener. They store so much water in the soil and plants that they act like an underground irrigation system. Studies also show that fires in an area with streams without beavers burn three times more intensely that those with beavers. Beaver habits are so successful, that scientist are replicating their damns to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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