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One of Europe's Most Endangered Birds Is Bouncing Back

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

September 14, 2023 |

Smithsonian |

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Response Location: Portugal, São Miguel Island

For two decades, the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds has restored native trees on São Miguel Island to increase the food and nesting habitat available for the Azores bullfinch. As a result, the population of the bird increased enough to be downlisted from critically endangered to vulnerable.

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The Heat is Killing Us: Climate change & rising temps are increasing gun violence

Helina Selemon

August 31, 2023 |

New York Amsterdam News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A University of Pennsylvania project cleaned up vacant lots and planted greenery, and it made community members feel safer, decreased gun violence, and decreased nuisance calls.

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What can harnessing 'positive deviance' methods do for food security?

Katrina Lane

August 29, 2023 |

Devex |

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Response Location: Niger

Researchers are helping communities spread the agricultural practices of outlier, high-performing farms amid food security struggles in Niger. Their approach, known as positive deviance, involves identifying what the farmers are doing differently through surveys and encouraging them to teach community members to do the same.

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This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

Twilight Greenaway

August 16, 2023 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Northfield, Minnesota

Minnesota-based Tree-Range Farms is teaching farmers to practice regenerative poultry farming. The chickens are raised in two fenced-in plots of land alongside trees and perennial plants, switching locations when the plants in one plot are grazed down. The practice improves soil health and, therefore, water and carbon sequestration.

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'It helps with my stress': US basic income project shows signs of success

Timothy Pratt

August 13, 2023 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

A pilot project by a pair of nonprofits in Atlanta, Georgia, gives monthly, no-strings-attached payments of $850 to 650 predominantly Black women who are earning 200% or less of the federal poverty level. The goal of the concept, called guaranteed income, is to combat poverty while giving the recipients agency to spend the money on their specific needs.

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Pa. farmers dig into soil — and its ability to trap carbon — as one solution to climate change

Karen Hendricks

August 01, 2023 |

StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

Farmers are acting as citizen scientists for a soil health study organized by Pennsylvania-based Pasa Sustainable Agriculture. The organization is helping farms implement sustainable agricultural practices that improve soil health and reduce carbon emissions, like composting and planting cover crops.

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Are Cooling Materials A Solution To Fight Urban Heat?

Erin Stone

July 27, 2023 |

LAist |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

A neighborhood group and a roofing company in Los Angeles, California, painted streets, parking lots, and a schoolyard with a “cool pavement” coating that reflects the heat from the sun. The coating keeping the surface cooler and providing relief from the urban heat island effect.

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Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt

July 26, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Malaysia

In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem': Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles

Nina Lakhani

May 29, 2023 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, Texas

Farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are participating in a study to find out if cover cropping is a viable method to improve yields or reduce costs in a region harried by unpredictable weather and water scarcity. In some cases, the cover crops they’ve planted between growing seasons improved soil health and prevented wind erosion.

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A Powerful Climate Solution Just Below the Ocean's Surface

Tatiana Schlossberg

May 24, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Virginia

A project at the Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve has restored 10,000 acres of seagrass meadow. For two decades, scientists and volunteers have worked together to collect, process, and plant seeds to grow the carbon-storing underwater plants.

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