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The Guardian
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
12 August 2020
Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India
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800-1500 Words
As the habitats of wild elephants shrink, conservationists in India are developing safer ways to reduce the number of conflicts between humans and the animal. The Wildlife Research and Conservation Society uses chili ...
23 July 2020
Helena, Montana, United States
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800-1500 Words
To better serve those who have been tested for coronavirus, but have experienced a significant delay in receiving their results, states across the nation are experimenting with distributing the load of tests to variou...
Nigeria Health Watch
el-Hamza Misbahu
21 July 2020
Kano, Nigeria
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800-1500 Words
Arewa Radio and Freedom Radio, two stations with large audiences in Kano State, actively combat misinformation and false rumors about the coronavirus. The stations run programming that builds trust and confidence betw...
20 July 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Many entities are working with social media companies to flag election-related disinformation. The California Secretary of State emails voters about how to report false information so the state can flag it and the Ari...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
15 July 2020
Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since he took over the Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff's Office in 2016, Philadelphia police veteran Mike Chitwood changed many of his department's personnel and put the entire 1,000-employee department through de-es...
15 July 2020
Santa Cruz, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The city of Santa Cruz is considering adopting a crisis-intervention strategy used in Eugene, Oregon, after two fatal police shootings of people suffering a mental health crises prompted questions about how an alterna...
6 July 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
A strategy to improve the intelligence that steers policing and violence-intervention efforts has worked in Chicago and shown promising early signs in Baltimore. But plans to expand Strategic Decision Support Centers ...
6 July 2020
United States
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800-1500 Words
Students at colleges across the U.S. are taking to social media to confront racism and biases at their campuses. Over 40 "Black at" Instagram accounts were launched in June on which students share their personal stori...
24 June 2020
Tasmania, Australia
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1500-3000 Words
A researcher in Tasmania is working to create climate-resilient “super-kelp” that could survive in its new climate along the coastline and help absorb carbon to prevent it from being released into the atmosphere. Othe...
22 June 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Less than one month into its use of a crisis intervention team to handle mental health calls in place of the police, Denver’s one-year STAR pilot project has been flooded with calls and already has achieved success in...
22 June 2020
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Twelve Honolulu high school students, who had only ever met online, used social media to organize a Black Lives Matter protest that drew over 10,000 people. The teens used online forums to communicate about their goal...
19 June 2020
United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Just as the Emmett Till murder helped inspire protests in the civil rights era, which in turn led to the passage of civil rights and voting rights legislation, the protests over policing in 2020 already have sparked r...
11 June 2020
District of Columbia, Washington, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Throughout the United States, health care professionals are beginning to prescribe "time outdoors" as a remedy for physical and mental illnesses in place of pharmaceuticals. Due to the stressors caused by Covid-19, th...
11 June 2020
United States
Photojournalism
800-1500 Words
Artists are designing bold and direct messaging to provide Covid-19 information to underserved populations. The messaging is explicit, often highlighting the role of racism in health disparities seen with the virus, a...
9 June 2020
Lithuania
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1500-3000 Words
The coronavirus pandemic has invigorated organizations working in the Baltics to counter disinformation, particularly from Russia, by flagging suspicious accounts, fake news, and hate speech. For example, Covid-19 led...
9 June 2020
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Europe’s hardcore football fans, deprived of the communal experience of watching their sport in raucous stadium crowds during the pandemic, redirected their energies toward public service projects to help communities ...
Choteau Acantha
Melody Martinsen
6 June 2020
Bozeman, Montana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A group exercise class known as StrongPeople is helping senior citizens in Montana find community and improve their health through progressive strength training. Participants have reported positive results, while stud...
26 May 2020
Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
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Under 800 Words
After a 14-year-old girl in Jonesboro, Ark., accidentally shot and killed a friend, local activists distributed hundreds of fliers promoting safe gun storage strategies that have been proven to save lives. They gained...
19 May 2020
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Meadows + More is a farm in New Jersey that specializes in edible wild plants and its owner, Tama Matsuoka Wong, seeks to educate people about the important role wild plants could play in future food systems if disast...
18 May 2020
Unity, New Hampshire, United States
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800-1500 Words
To help keep morale high and reduce the feeling of loneliness in senior centers during the coronavirus pandemic, pen-pal programs have taken shape throughout the United States. The idea started at a center in New Hamp...
15 May 2020
South Korea
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1500-3000 Words
As a response to hospital bed shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea developed a strategy that divides individuals who tested positive into four categories – mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe –...
7 May 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Los Angeles, a government-sanctioned camp has been developed for individuals experiencing housing insecurity. The camp, with around-the-clock security, offers residents water, meals, health care, and electrical out...
6 May 2020
New Hampshire, United States
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800-1500 Words
Contact tracing is not new for the state of New Hampshire, but officials are now adapting previous practices to better match the infectious capabilities of COVID-19. The practice is normally handled by the state Burea...
5 May 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
California state government is pivoting to a tactic that will allow for state employees to be reassigned and retrained to help efforts towards implementing contact tracing. Only one-third of the state's local health d...
5 May 2020
Johannesburg, Central African Republic
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800-1500 Words
To contain the coronavirus and reopen the economy, state governments throughout the United States are implementing public health lessons that were learned in West Africa during the Ebola outbreak. Although the two out...
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