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6 February 2015
Khulna, Bangladesh
Text
Under 800 Words
Vertical container farming offers an innovative adaptation to climate change and soil salinity. In Bangladesh, the nonprofit, WorldFish Center, promotes the practice of vertical farming, providing education and resour...
5 February 2015
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Louisiana and Vietnam both need affordable solutions to rising sea levels. Leaders from Vietnam visited Louisiana to compare ideas.
4 February 2015
Minnesota, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Confronting more frequent heavy rains, the state's farmers have extended farmland drainage. Higher crop yields is one result. Another: More dirty water is flowing downstream.
3 February 2015
Lang Tram, Vietnam
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
When the Vietnamese government built a gate in the 1990s to block saltwater from entering a key canal, they hoped it would lead to flourishing, year-round rice crops. Without community buy-in and engagement, the gover...
30 January 2015
Chandipur, Bangladesh
Text
800-1500 Words
Rising saltwater caused by climate change is shrinking Bangladesh’s arable land, especially concerning in places with dense populations. But a simple approach of planting crops in vertical containers shows surprising ...
29 January 2015
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Farmers in Vietnam face rising sea levels but rejected the city's water engineering projects. They prefer gradual measures to cope with climate change so scientists have allowed the farmers to steer the conversation.
25 January 2015
Austin, Texas, United States
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800-1500 Words
Most of Texas has emerged from a drought that started in early 2011, but water supplies are still far below normal. Scientists are using new technology to monitor ground water levels and contemplate potential conserva...
16 January 2015
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Essential oils contain some of the most potent anti-microbial compounds available. Only recently have scientists started pushing fr research to more deeply understand how they can be used to take the place of traditio...
5 January 2015
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Fort Collins, Colorado, developments and shopping malls are eating away at farm fields, ranches, and forests. One development company is protecting biodiversity by putting houses clustered along a single access roa...
24 December 2014
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Under 800 Words
Haiti suffered tremendous losses after the 2010 earthquake, exacerbating the devastation in an already impoverished country. In 2015, agriculture in Haiti is a growing business backed by the United States’ Feed the Fu...
15 December 2014
Clinton, North Carolina, United States
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Over 3000 Words
The chute is where a river of Silky Pork begins flowing to Tokyo, swift and steady in a logistical marvel that delivers choice cuts of fresh pork across the globe. Negotiations on a new trade deal catch the attention ...
14 December 2014
Austin, Texas, United States
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Under 800 Words
Laws in Texas and New Mexico, both locked in the grip of a crippling drought, don't do much to actually encourage citizens to conserve water. New conservation laws and financial incentives are trying to change that.
14 December 2014
Clint, Texas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Population growth, historical dryness and predictions of a warming climate all mean a future of scarce water in the Rio Grande's Upper Basin. Farmers and the irrigation districts are left to try and find ways to conse...
12 December 2014
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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800-1500 Words
Fed up with living in the world's most polluted city, some residents are fighting back, on their rooftops and backyards. In 2010, India launched the Jawarharlal Nehru Solar Mission, a government program to deploy 20,0...
10 December 2014
La Grange, North Carolina, United States
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Over 3000 Words
A farm in North Carolina discovered a new market and revived their business. By focusing on the genetics of their hogs and altering the hogs' diet the farm was able to enter the competitive but lucrative Japanese pork...
10 December 2014
Tokyo, Japan
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Over 3000 Words
After the success of North Carolina pork in Japan, the NC department of agriculture aims to help other local producers try their products in this foreign market to stimulate the state's economy.
The New York Times
Jane E. Brody
1 December 2014
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit organization that advocates for access to better food in low-income neighborhoods runs a program based on a simple idea to deal with a complex problem: instead of drugs or admonishments to...
24 November 2014
Shepherd, Montana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Clean water and healthy ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks that biomimicry - such as reconstructing wetlands and ...
21 November 2014
Bangladesh
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Under 800 Words
During rain seasons in Bangladesh, rivers flooded villages and their agriculture so that local economies and food supplies were in jeopardy. A Bangladeshi non-profit Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha introduced small float...
18 November 2014
Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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800-1500 Words
In Colombia, traditional cattle pastures have caused soil degradation, deforestation, and desertification. To reconcile this, several thousand acres of land in Latin America have been transformed into a silvo-pastoral...
18 November 2014
Bangladesh
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800-1500 Words
Each year the brown waters of the Gumani river swell during the summer monsoon, creeping over the surrounding fields to flood Charbhangura, a village of 2,500 people in the Pabna district of northwest Bangladesh - whe...
17 November 2014
Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
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1500-3000 Words
In Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council was formed after a severe drought to bring together federal, state and regional governments and bridge parochial concerns. It was meant to manage the basin as...
16 November 2014
Elephant Butte, New Mexico, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The El Paso Times reports from the heart of the Rio Grande Basin - where drought has led to dramatic decreases in water supply, and serious changes in management of river resources are called for - on how the region p...
7 November 2014
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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1500-3000 Words
By the 1980s, Roxbury and north Dorchester had been devastated by the disinvestment and white flight of the 1960s and 1970s. Racist banking and housing policies (“redlining”) had segregated people of color from opport...
Minnesota Public Radio
Jennifer Vogel
2 October 2014
Wadena, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A growing program in central Minnesota measures rates of "evapotranspiration," or loss of water in fields, using a complex formula involving solar radiation, wind speed, air temperature and other factors.
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