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  • Amsterdam's 'Smart' Blue-Green Roofs Reduce Urban Flooding

    April 07, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    The city of Amsterdam funded a blue-green roofs program to reduce both flooding and the urban heat island effect. The water collection system stores and releases rainwater, the variety of indigenous plants increase biodiversity, and the connected digital network allows them all to be controlled remotely.

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  • The Flashlight-Wielding, Frog-Taxiing Guardians of Spring's 'Big Night'

    April 03, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Volunteers from the Harris Center for Conservation Education in New Hampshire spend spring nights helping amphibians cross the road safely. The volunteers work during mass amphibian migration periods and collect data on the species they see for conservation efforts.

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  • Is There Anything 'Solar Meadows' Can't Do?

    March 31, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Ramsey, Minnesota

    Pollinator-friendly solar arrays, also called solar meadows, feature meadows of native flowers around the solar panels instead of turf or gravel to support pollinators.

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  • From ukuleles to reforestation: Regrowing a tropical forest in Hawai‘i

    March 28, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Saving Hawai‘i’s Forests plants koa trees and other native plants to reforest plots of land degraded by grazing livestock. As a result, the group has noticed the return of native wildlife to the plot, many of which are endangered or threatened species.

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  • Artificial reefs bring wild lake trout to Lake Huron

    March 21, 2023 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    As natural reefs continue to decline, artificial reefs constructed by humans from various materials like small stones or sunken ships create spaces for fish to breed safely.

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  • How Mass Bird Death In Philadelphia Catalyzed A Local Lights-out Program

    March 16, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A light pollution mitigation pledge in Philadephia called Lights Out Philly asks building managers to agree to turn off their lights late at night during bird migration periods to decrease bird collisions with windows.

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  • In the Extinction Capital of the World, A Native School Is Restoring Indigenous Forests

    March 11, 2023 |

    Native News Online |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Led by Native Hawai’ians, Kamehameha Schools owns thousands of acres of land dedicated to stewardship and conservation. The school partners with Native Hawaiian organizations and conducts eco-cultural education programs for students and members of the community to foster connections between them and the environment.

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  • A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

    March 05, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    By going a step further than pollinator strips and hedgerows to create complex landscape structures, farmers create refugia with cooler microclimates that help pollinators and other animals acclimate and survive increasing temperatures.

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  • Eating Lionfish

    February 07, 2023 |

    The Food Fix |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Cayman Islands

    Restaurants in the Cayman Islands are hosting lion-fish catching tournaments and then cooking and serving the invasive species to reduce their population.

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  • The New Generation of Hydropower Dams Let Fish Swim Straight Through

    February 06, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Natel, a hydropower developer, designed a new turbine system with blades that allow fish to pass safely through the turbine vastly reducing the rate of death for fish traveling past hydroelectric dams.

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