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High Country News
Leah Todd
5 September 2016
Center, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
Two brothers in rural Colorado use cover crops - crops grown to decompose into the soil in order to improve water retention - to cut back on excess water and synthetic fertilizer use on their potato farm. Despite high...
21 August 2016
Hongcheon, South Korea
Text
Over 3000 Words
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization provides some pretty grim predictions for the future of global food stability if modern, monoculture farming practices continue to degrade land, spread pesticides, and destro...
The New York Times
Winnie Hu
11 August 2016
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Even though natural parks are in close proximity to New York City’s metropolitan hub, many are inaccessible and overlooked areas for recreation and sport. Conservation groups, including the Natural Areas Conservancy a...
The Guardian
Cathy Watson
3 August 2016
Mekelle, Ethiopia
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800-1500 Words
Environmental refugees in Ethiopia flee their country because there are no jobs without healthy land. A group of former refugees have returned to Ethiopia with a business venture in Gergera to improve the land by regr...
28 July 2016
Nairobi, Kenya
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Over 3000 Words
Deforestation, overgrazing, and increased carbon emissions are familiar challenges as climate change continues to threaten our food systems. Author Eric Toensmeier discusses how "carbon farming" - or practices such a...
22 July 2016
San Diego, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The poorest are the ones living in the most unhealthy neighbourhoods where air particles are more detrimental. The Climate Action Plan is dedicated to using cleantech while also using this as an opportunity for job cr...
12 July 2016
Narok, Kenya
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800-1500 Words
Harvesting rainwater is a necessary practice throughout Kenya, but is especially important in the areas of the country that are arid or semiarid. The African Water Bank has made this process more accessibly to many in...
4 July 2016
Kenya
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1500-3000 Words
It's not just poaching that is changing the landscape of the elephant kingdom, it's human's actions in general. In an attempt to understand the geographical needs of elephants, scientists are arming the species with r...
Government Technology (GovTech)
Ashish Sharma
1 July 2016
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Twenty-first century cities face the factors of climate change with intensity as urban heating threatens human and the earth’s health. The University of Notre Dame has conducted research on green and cool roofing proj...
Clean Energy Finance Forum
Kat Friedrich
1 July 2016
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Air and water pollutants have an adverse impact on the health and well-being of citizens. Protecting the air and water, by increasing the usage of solar energy, can have a tremendous impact on reversing the impact of ...
22 June 2016
Ghana
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Under 800 Words
Recycled kitchen waste and charcoal ash makes for healthy soil healthy that is more resilient to climate change. For centuries, women in Ghana and Liberia have used this technique on their farmlands, which are renowne...
21 June 2016
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
California has long struggled with creative solutions to its lack of abundant water. Los Angeles offers its residents free recycled water as a solution to drought and water shortage issues.
Los Angeles Magazine
Patric Kuh
15 June 2016
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Los Angeles-based nonprofit Food Forward was born out of the observation that many farmers are growing more fruit than they can sell at market. To cut down on food waste and get these viable fruits into the hands of p...
8 June 2016
Kenya
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1500-3000 Words
In the face of crippling unemployment, environmental degradation, and species extinction, communities in Southern Kenya joined with various stakeholders to establish REDD+ project. This project sells carbon credits on...
31 May 2016
Morris, Minnesota, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research and Outreach Center are looking for ways to make producing dairy milk less energy intensive - something consumers are increasingly demanding. They hav...
The Taos News
JR Logan
27 May 2016
Talpa, New Mexico, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Farmers and land owners in the Rio Grande del Rancho region are using a collaborative, community-based approach fostered by acequias to ensure better sharing of water resources in times of scarcity.
High Country News
Paige Blankenbuehler
26 May 2016
Centre, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
An over-taxed basin in Colorado is getting its water use under control through the sub-district project, an innovative user-led solution for solving water problems.
16 May 2016
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
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Under 800 Words
As farmers continue to experience floods—and lack control over the dredging of the rivers running through their farms—a few have looked to homegrown solutions, and others to amending policy to create "subdistricts."
2 May 2016
Portland, Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
Throughout the city of Portland, there is moss growing in urban trees. When scientists began studying its growth, they were able to not only detect a citywide air pollution problem, but also pinpoint the origin of it ...
22 April 2016
Utah, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
In Navajo Nation, access to water is scarce and 38% of people don't have it. In several states tribes have been signing away their rights to rivers and other water sources in exchange for help with building the infras...
Story of Stuff Project
Shana DeClercq
22 April 2016
Curtis Bay, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Incinerating garbage to create energy is hardly as "clean" as it claims to be, but this polluting practice often receives the same subsidies and permit approvals as other renewable energy sources like wind and solar. ...
20 April 2016
Brazil
Text
1500-3000 Words
By requiring schools to buy 30 percent of products from smallholder farms, Brazil provides fresher food to students and economic benefits to otherwise struggling farmers. Since 1955, Brazil's staple national school lu...
15 April 2016
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The overpopulation of white-tailed deer is a conservation realization and an environmental disaster for the communities that harbor them. Hastings-on-Hudson, a progressive community, has opted for a humane birth contr...
The New Yorker
Pauls Toutonghi
22 March 2016
Aït Baâmrane, Morocco
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800-1500 Words
The demand for clean water around the world continues to grow. In arid southwest Morocco, the region may only see “a few hundredths of an inch of rain per year,” which contributes to poor human health, as well as envi...
17 March 2016
Eight Mile, Alabama, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Eight years after a mercaptan spill in Eight Mile, Alabama, its mostly black and working class residents still suffer from respiratory issues, rashes and headaches.
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