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9 August 2017
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Kentucky metro area has some of the worst air quality in the country, leading to concerning rates of asthma and respiratory disease well above the national averages. But a group called AIR Louisville has implement...
WABE
Molly Samuel
28 July 2017
Fayette, Georgia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Water wars have become a norm throughout the United States as droughts become more prominent due to climate change. By releasing more water back into the environment than required to by law, however, Fayette County ha...
The American Prospect
David Dayen
17 July 2017
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Los Angeles has faced deepening issues of severe traffic and extreme smog pollution in the past several decades, but for years intentions and promises to broadly improve transportation have fallen flat. At long last, ...
5 July 2017
Denver, Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Surprisingly, breathing thin air at high altitudes helps some patients with asthma. Other emerging treatments include medicines that suppress the body’s immune response to allergens.
26 June 2017
Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Colorado is home to 54 fourteeners – mountains that rise to 14,000 feet high or higher and serve as popular routes for many avid hikers despite not having designed trails. To keep hikers safe while also preserving pla...
14 June 2017
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Farming uses 70 percent of all freshwater consumed and only allows the recycling of about half of that after use. With water scarcity on the rise, a company called AeroFarms has developed a new method of farming that ...
CivicStory
Sonia Schnee
13 June 2017
Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
Trenton, NJ residents are improving their city through urban agriculture. ISLES, the non-profit group supporting the community gardens, is encouraging community-building as well as a healthy lifestyle that benefits pe...
Futurism
Dom Galeon
12 June 2017
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Under 800 Words
CityTree doesn't resemble the typical tree, but it provides the environmental benefit of 275: this structure, designed for urban landscaping by "Green City Solutions," filters air, cools the surrounding environment an...
KBUT Community Radio
Chad Rich
9 June 2017
Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
As tourism activity increases on the trails throughout Colorado and crowds of mountain bikers flock to the Gunnison Valley area, a group born out of the Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association has formed to act as a b...
CNN
Chris Giles
7 June 2017
Germany
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Under 800 Words
Air pollution is a major health risk, and growing in severity as more of the population moves to urban (more polluted) areas. Several university friends from Germany developed a "CityTree," which filters toxic polluta...
NPR
Chhavi Sachdev
7 June 2017
Delhi, India
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800-1500 Words
Scientists and activists in India are training citizens to collect information on water issues like contamination — and upload it so it can be used to push for change.
Al Jazeera
Gelareh Darabi
Ndoni Khanyile
6 June 2017
South Africa
Broadcast TV News
Over 15 Minutes
As climate change continues to advance, its impact on farmlands has become more pronounced and increasingly devastating. Farmers and researchers in both South Africa and Nepal are working towards solutions to problems...
5 June 2017
Missouri, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Callaway County, Missouri local farmers are opposing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and are asking that these operations are more regulated to protect the lives of the people living in the area. The...
Citiscope
Patralekha Chatterjee
29 May 2017
Surat, Gujarat, India
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1500-3000 Words
TARU, an Indian thinktank, has found that Indians cities have combined decentralized action and "multi-stakeholder engagement" in public policy to respond to problems of scarcity in water and power as well as climate ...
Al Jazeera
Gelareh Darabi
25 May 2017
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Respiratory diseases caused by air pollution now account for more premature deaths in people worldwide than malaria and HIV combined. To address increasing contamination levels, particularly in cities, scientists have...
Edie Newsroom
Matt Mace
19 May 2017
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Under 800 Words
The United Kingdom is finding creative ways to simultaneously address renewable energy needs and waste disposal. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants are utilizing chicken manure from farms and coffee grounds to creat...
Al Jazeera
Amani Zain
17 May 2017
Mafraq, Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
The country of Jordan has one of the scarcest water supplies of any country on earth - one that can barely sustain its population, especially with Syrian refugees pouring in and further straining limited resources. Po...
Al Jazeera
Russell Beard
17 May 2017
Leh, Kashmir, India
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Nearly a billion people living in the arid regions of the Himalayas depend on glaciers for their water supply. But with climate change, glaciers have been retreating drastically every year, threatening the life source...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Andrea Dijkstra
24 April 2017
Isiolo, Nairobi, Kenya
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800-1500 Words
In agricultural communities across Kenya, global warming has led local farmers to turn to camels -- as an alternative to cows -- for dairy products both to feed their families and take to the local markets to sell. Fu...
Richland Source
Emily Dech
21 April 2017
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Community leaders are working together to address the issue of food insecurity in Mansfield, caused not just by lack of access to grocery stores and fresh food sources, but also often by unemployment, high housing cos...
13 April 2017
Oslo, Norway
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
In the heart of one of Europe’s fastest growing capitals, cars are rapidly disappearing. To reduce pollution and build a people-first city center, Oslo has promised to ban all cars in downtown by 2019. The multi-prong...
13 April 2017
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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800-1500 Words
Potato breeding has become common practice for some in Canada that are on a mission grow the spud more efficiently in order to anticipate demand and availability. So far they've been able to experiment with an earlier...
31 March 2017
West Virginia, United States
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Under 800 Words
Many times, in order for solutions to gain momentum and effect real change, there has to be buy in from a community level. To improve the perception of renewable energy in West Virginia, the Ohio Valley Environmental ...
Mongabay
Bart Crezee
30 March 2017
Colombia
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1500-3000 Words
Protecting forests against deforestation is key to reducing CO2 emissions, which is what the UN mechanism- REDD+ aims to do by creating contracts with rural areas for them to protect their area's forest for 30 years i...
15 March 2017
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Under 800 Words
Is meat created from animal stem cells actually considered meat? These scientists think so, and have successfully created such a product. Their successful creation of "test-tube chicken and duck" aims to benefit the ...
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