Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
14 September 2021
Bihar, India
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800-1500 Words
The Bihar, India, state government banned drinking and selling of alcohol in 2016 after women in the mostly rural state mounted protests blaming men's alcohol abuse for rampant violence against women. Hundreds of thou...
17 May 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Five years after the FBI started tracking how often police use force, the majority of police departments still fail to comply and the FBI refuses to release publicly what information it has collected. The policy was e...
3 May 2021
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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800-1500 Words
Tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson started Capital Daily, a daily newsletter emailed to subscribers with news highlights from around Victoria. The local journalism model keeps residents informed on local issues and in...
20 April 2021
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
Rev. Scott Hardin-Nieri of North Carolina works with the Creation Care Alliance to better connect his Christian faith with climate action. Over the years they have developed a toolkit for congregations on how to get i...
15 April 2021
Cherán, Michoacan, Mexico
Video
5-15 Minutes
Ten years after the women of Cherán, an indigenous town in Michoacán, took up arms to lead an uprising against criminal cartels, their town is an "oasis" of low crime in a region otherwise beset with violence. The tow...
The Guardian
Ashifa Kassam
9 April 2021
El Puerto de Santa María, Spain
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800-1500 Words
A Spanish chef piloted a project to start a “marine garden” — cultivating eelgrass and obtaining grains it produces to be used in different recipes. The grain has healthy benefits, including 50 percent more protein th...
The Guardian
Mario Koran
7 April 2021
Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Waadookodaading is an Ojibwe immersion school that meets state and federal academic standards but does so entirely in the indigenous language by connecting children to their cultural heritage. The school goes through ...
5 April 2021
Seychelles
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800-1500 Words
A public-private scheme between the Seychelles Islands Foundation and a government agency is allowing residents to plant seeds of the coco de mer, or sea coconut, as a way to save the endangered tree species. So far, ...
24 March 2021
Taiwan
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800-1500 Words
Taiwan was among the first countries to respond to COVID-19 with decisive actions that contained the virus’ impact on the population. Its 2003 experience with the SARS virus provided an established infrastructure to f...
20 March 2021
s’-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Text
Over 3000 Words
A Dutch group of engineers known as the Weather Makers has an ambitious plan to regreen the Sinai Peninsula — the stretch of desert connecting Egypt to the rest of Asia. Their efforts would restore forests, wetlands, ...
12 March 2021
Chico, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A series of killings by the police sparked a community-led movement urging greater accountability and better training. The campaign bore fruit when the Chico mayor formed a committee to examine use of force policies. ...
4 March 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
State and federal parole officials have rushed during the pandemic to embrace the use of smartphone apps that monitor the location and behavior of a person on parole. The apps and related data analytics save courts mo...
3 March 2021
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
RxArt is a non-profit organization that works to brighten up children's wings in hospitals with art installations. The artwork is vibrant and often covers entire rooms and hallways, eliciting positive reactions from t...
3 March 2021
Okere City, Uganda
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800-1500 Words
Okere City, Uganda, has been rebuilt with a school, a marketplace, and solar-powered energy. Instead of treating the project as a charity, it was approached as a social enterprise that collaborates with the community....
1 March 2021
New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Frustrated with the Covid-19 vaccination system in New York, a local software engineer created a "much-needed vaccination appointment-finding bot" that shares available times and locations on a website and Twitter. Al...
23 February 2021
Tulalip, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
While beavers might seem like a nuisance to many, the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state — after a long legal battle — are relocating the creatures to their lands as a way to create healthy ecosystems. The tribe has s...
11 February 2021
United Kingdom
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800-1500 Words
Pet cats kill about 100 million animals a year in the United Kingdom, so to discourage the behavior, and protect mice, rabbits, and birds, scientists conducted an experiment with over 300 household cats. They found th...
8 February 2021
Gothenburg, Sweden
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800-1500 Words
A pop-up public space was installed in Gothenburg, the latest in a Swedish experiment that’s looking at how to transform parking spaces on city streets into community areas. Previous installations of the experiment, k...
5 February 2021
Malmö, Sweden
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1500-3000 Words
As London starts to implement its plan for boroughs to implement sustainable urban greening strategies, officials look to Malmö as a guide after the Swedish city used a green space factor (GSF) as a way of calculating...
19 January 2021
Namibia
Text
Under 800 Words
Tens of thousands of vulnerable bird species have been saved over the last decade thanks to new equipment that has been installed by Namibian fishing boats. By fitting colorful hosepipe to lines towed behind boats, a ...
19 January 2021
Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
Batteries that can be fully charged in five minutes have been created for the first time, allowing electric cars to recharge faster. The Israeli company StoreDot produced 1,000 of these new lithium-ion batteries, whic...
19 January 2021
United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
Hundreds of seed-saving initiatives across the UK support the cultivation of “open pollinated seeds” in small plots and gardens to preserve future seed diversity. In contrast to static seeds in a bank, these seed-savi...
15 January 2021
Algeria
Text
800-1500 Words
Tree mapping helps researchers understand deforestation and climate change, however the technologies used often miss trees that aren’t clustered. Researchers, in collaboration with NASA, used high-resolution satellite...
22 December 2020
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Violations of the Voting Rights Act during primary and local elections led the city of Malden, where 23% of its 60,000 residents are of Asian descent, to provide voting materials and information - including mail-in ba...
20 November 2020
Paris, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Cities across France are using citizens’ assemblies, where a diverse group of citizens study important issues and make policy recommendations. In Paris, 150 citizens spent nine months working on the climate convention...
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