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  • The race to build climate-resilient coral reefs

    January 29, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Researchers and conservationists around the world are finding ways to help coral reefs grow quicker and survive the warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change. The Australian company Coral Maker is using artificial intelligence and robots to mass produce concrete skeletons for coral to grow on, and the Coral Restoration Foundation is growing coral on floating "trees."

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  • Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo

    January 18, 2024 |

    BBC |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Indonesia, Ketapang

    An all-women firefighting team in Ketapang, Indonesia, is stopping people from setting fires to clear land, a practice called slash and burn, and putting out the fires they can’t prevent. Arsonists often set fire to peatlands, which pollutes the air and releases stored carbon dioxide.

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  • Tidal power: What's holding it back?

    January 14, 2024 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea

    Researchers in South Korea and Ireland are harnessing the power from the up, down, and side-to-side motions of ocean tides as a source of renewable energy.

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  • This Louisiana town moved to escape climate-linked disaster

    January 13, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Isle de Jean Charles, United States, Louisiana

    In the face of increasing land loss and flooding due to coastal erosion and climate change, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe made the decision to relocate their community to higher ground. After winning a grant from the National Disaster Resilience Competition, the tribe worked closely with the Louisiana state government to figure out where and how the new community would be built.

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  • What if debt was written off to protect climate and nature?

    December 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    Severely indebted countries are using debt-for-climate swaps to shrink their debt while helping the environment. To make these swaps possible, creditors sell back their portion of the debt at a reduced rate to alleviate the risk of the country defaulting. Then, new loans are issued at a cheaper rate in exchange for the country committing to use some of the money it saves becuase of the lower rate on projects that benefit the climate.

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  • How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees

    December 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Young Power in Social Action helps families displaced by extreme weather, like hurricanes, by building weather-proof homes and helping those who lost their jobs find new work by providing them with goats or sewing machines to help them create a new livelihood. The group has already helped rehome eight families and plans to rehouse eight more families by April 2024.

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  • How Africa's first heat officer is protecting women in Sierra Leone

    November 09, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    Heat officers appointed by local city council and the Transform Freetown initiative work to make the city greener and more livable by helping residents cope with extreme heat, particularly women working as outdoor vendors. Local heat officers have introduced measures like installing cool pavements, mirrored roofing and planting trees to keep residents cool. In 2022, local city council installed shade covers to protect 2,300 street vendors from the heat and heavy rain in open-air markets.

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  • Mar Menor: cleaning Europe's largest saltwater lagoon

    October 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Local authorities in Spain are introducing restoration measures to clean up the Mar Menor lagoon, which is suffering from years of nitrate and phosphate contamination. Their methods include mandating hedges are planted as barriers on farmland, collecting rain on farms so it doesn’t flow into the water, and limiting fertilizer use.

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  • The goats fighting fires in Los Angeles

    September 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Cities in California are turning to goat herders to manage the dead trees and shrubs that become fuel for wildfires. Goats will eat almost anything and are adept at getting to places humans find difficult to reach.

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  • The ancient Sri Lankan 'tank cascades' tackling drought

    September 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Maeliya

    A hydraulic network of man-made water tanks built 2,000 years ago, called an ellangawa, collects rainwater that locals in Maeliya, Sri Lanka, can release during the dry season to support the rice crop and recharge the groundwater.

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