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  • Vietnam's response to climate change? A shrimp and mangrove cocktail

    Julia Laurie

    May 23, 2017 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Ben Tre Province

    Increasing salinization of water sources and droughts as a result of climate change have threatened traditional agricultural practices in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. But The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Netherlands Development Agency are helping teach farmers to adapt by showing them how to work with the saltier waters, establishing organic shrimp farms instead of growing rice and preserving the valuable mangroves that protect their coastline from storms.

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  • This drug can break opioid addiction. Why aren't we using it?

    Julia Laurie

    December 07, 2016 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Opioid addiction has increased throughout the United States. A clinic in San Francisco has been offering an opioid replacement drug called buphrenorphine to help wean addicts away from opioids. The clinic’s success at healing addicts has served as a model for clinics in other cities around the country.

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