Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
16 March 2021
Costa Rica
Text
1500-3000 Words
A court in Costa Rica decided that a local municipality was illegally polluting a stream and this ruling set the stage for the country to ensure that a clean and healthy environment is a human right. They ingrained th...
25 February 2021
Ghana
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing number of governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations are working together with new technology and data to identify fishing vessels that are breaking laws and engaging in human rights violations. Usi...
From a Climate Correspondent
Hartatik
16 February 2021
Patemon, Java, Indonesia
Text
800-1500 Words
Indonesian villagers were experiencing water shortages as natural springs started to dry up in part due to climate change, so they installed infiltration wells to collect and absorb rainwater. Not everyone, at first, ...
14 January 2021
San José de Apartadó, Colombia
Text
1500-3000 Words
Plagued by an internal war, a group of villages in Colombia created a “Peace Community,” declaring themselves neutral in the conflict and focusing their efforts on cultivating the 150 hectares of cacao trees in collec...
27 October 2020
Orléans, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Years after international authorities had stopped searching for a man suspected of being an architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a freelance journalist spent eight months searching data and doing on the ground repo...
19 August 2020
Cameroon
Text
800-1500 Words
A severe cardiologist shortage, especially in rural areas, led to the creation of the Cardiopad, an electrocardiogram device that allows local doctors to easily perform examinations and use Bluetooth to transfer them ...
12 May 2020
Ghana
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Faced with limited resources and the pressure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Ghana implemented a variety of measures during the early stages of the pandemic. Those measures, which include pool testing and drone de...
19 April 2020
Francisco Murguía, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
A unique partnership between environmental groups and governments in the United States and Mexico has led to the resurrection of wetlands and forests in the long-dry Colorado River Delta. Since the waters were dammed ...
1 April 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
While most other scientific research around the world has come to a halt, coronavirus research is flourishing as a global collaboration of scientists focuses on understanding the virus and finding a vaccine. Competiti...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Klaus Sieg
28 February 2020
Hamburg, Germany
Text
800-1500 Words
The Center of Competence on the Origin of Timber in Germany is using innovative methods to help determine timber products’ origins in order to stop illegal wood trading. Scientists can identify wood’s anatomical featu...
21 February 2020
Indonesia
Text
800-1500 Words
A space-based initiative called Global Fishing Watch is using satellite imagery and data to hold companies accountable to their promise of providing sustainable sourced seafood. While the volume of data and cost of ob...
16 February 2020
Mogadishu, Somalia
Text
1500-3000 Words
After three decades of war and famine, Somalia's capacity to respond to emergencies and rebuild its country has been significantly diminished. To pick up the slack, young Somalis, many of whom have returned home from ...
Mongabay
Mark Hillsdon
1 November 2019
Ulcinj, Montenegro
Text
1500-3000 Words
Encouraging governments to behave transparently can also assist in environmental conservation efforts. Ulcinj Salina, an important saltwater wetland in Montenegro, faced an uncertain future prior to an international l...
11 October 2019
Haiti
Text
Over 3000 Words
Since Haiti's catastrophic earthquake in 2010, the US has spent $2.3 billion in aid money that has failed to alleviate poverty or help the impoverished nation recover. Bill Clinton led the global response to Haiti's r...
5 September 2019
Lebanon, Jordan
Text
Over 3000 Words
The King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan and the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon were both established in order to help children from all different regions battle cancer, but since war broke out, they have ...
15 July 2019
Auckland, New Zealand
Radio
Over 15 Minutes
Housing affordability is a crisis that many countries face. New Zealand addressed the issue in a controversial way: by outright banning foreign ownership. Since it has come into effect, real estate pricing has gone do...
25 June 2019
Indonesia
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Geoengineering, a term used to cover a broad range of large-scale, drastic measures to combat climate change, has the science and policy communities divided. These measures are currently being explored across the worl...
Rappler
Keith Anthony S. Fabro
1 June 2019
Palawan, Philippines
Text
800-1500 Words
Empowering women to practice sustainable agriculture promotes resilience and enables communities to protect biodiversity. The Kusor Upland Farmer’s Association, sponsored by the United States Agency for International ...
21 May 2019
Rubirizi District, Uganda
Text
800-1500 Words
Trees for Global Benefits is a carbon offset program that aims to partner with, rather than displace, locals in countries that have space to plant forests. For instance, in the Rubirizi District in Uganda, locals are ...
30 April 2019
Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
Tech2Peace, a student and volunteer-led program, is working to not only teach technology skills to youth, but is also trying to improve Israeli-Palestinian relations through conflict resolution dialogue. The idea behi...
29 April 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Banned refrigerants called CFCs are being cleaned up and recycled to help offset climate change. The refrigerants were banned decades ago as part of the Montreal Protocol due to the extremely destructive effects they ...
27 April 2019
United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
As climate change intensifies, militaries around the world have start adopting new equipment, practices, and processes. The United States has developed the International Military Council on Climate and Security, inten...
16 April 2019
El Salvador
Text
Under 800 Words
Giving guns a nonviolent afterlife can also increase economic opportunity for struggling communities. In El Salvador, IM Swedish Development Partner, a nongovernmental organization, is addressing the issue of guns and...
5 April 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The New York Yankees are the first and only baseball team to sign onto the United Nation’s Sports for Climate Action Framework. In doing so they hope to lead their fanbase into committing to five principles: making sy...
30 March 2019
Rivera Hernandez, Honduras
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Residents of Rivera Hernandez, Honduras are trying to improve their community in a district that’s under gang control. One such effort is a vocational school to train children and adults in electricity and solar energ...
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