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Pacific Islanders Look Back on Tradition to Protect Their Future

Will Higginbotham

August 07, 2018 |

OZY |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Samoa

To combat climate change, some Pacific Islanders are turning to tradition indigenous knowledge upgraded with recent innovations in green technology. Examples includes constructing homes with indigenous building techniques that are more disaster-resilient and farming techniques that emphasize drought-tolerant crops.

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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

Nathaniel Rich

August 01, 2018 |

The New York Times Magazine |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States

In the late 1970s to late 1980s, activists, scientists, and politicians began to address the climate change crisis. For a decade, they attempted to ask the U.S. to commit to an international agreement to reduce emissions, and they almost succeeded. “In a single decade, they turned a crisis that was studied by no more than several dozen scientists into the subject of Senate hearings, front-page headlines and the largest diplomatic negotiation in world history.”

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Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice'

Patricia Leigh Brown

July 30, 2018 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Boasting one of the top five largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs that has raised over $6.5 billion, California is leading the way in financially successful renewable energy initiatives. One of the state's more recent projects now aims to allocate a percentage of those funds to bringing renewable energy resources to lower socioeconomic communities.

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How environmental outreach efforts are targeting Philly Latinos: The most interested in climate change, study shows

Jesenia De Moya Correa

July 25, 2018 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Studies have shown that U.S. Latinos are one of the mostly highly invested groups in helping fight against climate change, yet are also often left out of the conversation. Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability as well as other local agencies are making an effort to bridge that gap and engage Latinos through better targeted environmental outreach efforts.

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Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks

Richard Kenny Ammar Ebrahim

July 24, 2018 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

As wildfires have become increasingly more pronounced due to climate change which primes areas to burn, lands and communities are being destroyed all over the world. To have a chance for survival, projects throughout Spain and North America are working towards landscape adaptation that makes the areas apt to resisting forest fire.

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As Milk Production Cools In Summer, Farmers Try To Help Cows Take The Heat

Mose Buchele

July 21, 2018 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, McGregor, Texas

American cows are not typically made to withstand the warmer summers occurring across the United States. To combat the negative side effect of a decrease in milk production, farmers are trying solutions such as using fans and misting water and even going so far as to create a new breed of cow.

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How States Are Rethinking Roads

Andrew Soergel

July 17, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

As cities grapple with higher temperatures, state and local governments are looking for ways to play a larger role in combatting the impacts. Throughout the United States, some of the entities are turning their attention towards solutions that make road more heat-resistant.

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Conserve Energy on Summer's Hottest Days With a Text

Eben Bein

July 13, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

Shave The Peak is an online tool that helps people cut their emissions use by informing them of peak energy times during the hottest days in the summer. The tool started as a mass email and a text sent out to 100 environmentally concerned citizens before expanding. “For now, we have to educate and involve citizen advocates using short-term projects so we can eventually create long-term change.”

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Educated Afghan women offer economic resilience in the face of climate change and conflict

Beth Murphy

July 04, 2018 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, where climate change is drying up previously productive farms, female education has taken on a new importance. A recent Brookings Institution study found that for "every additional year of school a girl receives, her country is better prepared for, and better able to recover from climate disasters."

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How Eating Seaweed Can Help Cows to Belch Less Methane

Judith Lewis Mernit

July 02, 2018 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Davis, California

In California, cows emit as much methane per year as the equivalent of 2.5 million cars. To reduce this impact, researchers are testing a change in diet for dairy cows that implements seaweed into their daily feed. So far, results are showing over a 50 percent drop in methane emissions, while milk production has remained consistent or increased.

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