bioGraphic
13 February 2018
Multi-Media / Over 3000 Words
Maynard, Massachusetts, United States
Genetically engineered foods have found their place in the world's diet through a variety of means. AquaBounty Technologies has taken this practice and found a successful way to apply it to the engineering of salmon, introducing a means to potentially cut back on overfishing while also supplying a nutritious alternative to more affluent counties and simultaneously help aid the people of the developing world that have little access to meat. Despite facing years of pushback from North America, the company has successfully been selling the salmon in Canadian grocery stores and hopes to expand the sales soon.
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/04/14/ground-level-beneath-the-surface-water-technology
Martin Moylan
Minnesota Public Radio
14 April 2014
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
Creating an indoor aquaculture operation in an old brewery is, oddly enough, using surprisingly little water.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/06/06/34chicago.h32.html
Lesli A. Maxwell
Education Week
31 May 2013
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Chicago's progress in lowering the dropout rate is in part because of a network of charter schools around the city that provide small, alternative programs that specialize in serving students who have dropped out or are considering dropping out of school. "It's like a second home for me," said one student about her experience in such a program at CCA Academy. Teachers with these programs offer understanding and a high level of support and encourage their students to grow.
http://nationswell.com/4-startups-changing-farmers-work
Chris Peak
NationSwell
24 September 2015
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University research in Kansas and California is providing technical solutions for small farmers to help them compete against large scale farms.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.20/can-biomimicry-tackle-our-toughest-water-problems
Benjamin Goldfarb
High Country News
24 November 2014
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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 growing biofilms - can tackle the toughest of water problems.
http://wwno.org/post/delta-blues-part-2-when-life-give-you-saltwater-make-shrimp-ponds
Eve Troeh
New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO)
29 January 2015
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.
http://wwno.org/post/delta-blues-part-3-better-together
Eve Troeh
Jesse Hardman
New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO)
5 February 2015
Radio / 5-15 Minutes
Louisiana and Vietnam both need affordable solutions to rising sea levels. Leaders from Vietnam visited Louisiana to compare ideas.
http://ensia.com/features/researchers-around-the-world-are-learning-from-indigenous-communities-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing
Benjamin Goldfarb
Ensia
31 May 2016
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In the Northwestern Territories of Canada, wildlife biologists received unfavorable critiques from indigenous communities for how they were going about with their caribou studies. By forming relationships with the indigenous peoples, they were able to change their approach and learn from the local communities about what was already working.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how_weeds_could_help_feed_billions_in_a_warming_world
Lisa Palmer
Yale Environment 360
5 June 2014
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The demand for food crops is increasing globally while the crop resilience is decreasing due to a warming climate and elevated CO2 levels. Scientists in Washington, DC are testing how to cross food crops with weeds, which have resilience against heat and many other environmental challenges.
http://ensia.com/features/can-bats-reduce-nut-farmers-pesticide-use
Susan Moran
Ensia
21 September 2015
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In California some farms lose up to 10 percent of their crop due to coddling moths. Davis University is measuring the impact bats have on various walnut farms, such as potential savings from reduced insecticide use and crop loss to insects.
http://theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/how-to-beat-dengue-and-zika-add-a-microbe-to-mosquitoes/494036
Ed Yong
The Atlantic
8 August 2016
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The dengue virus is spread by mosquito and infects 400 million people every year with no vaccine or successful treatment. Scientists have started to inject mosquitoes with a bacteria they have found to stop the virus to prevent and control the spread of dengue. Trials have shown success in Australia, so the project is in the process of scaling to other countries that have dengue more widespread, and new experiments will begin on whether it can effectively stop the spread of the Zika virus.
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