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  • Fertiliser: Women embrace sustainable alternative for food security, soil preservation

    December 05, 2024 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In 2020, Nigeria's Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE) and Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) began to train women farmers on the use of dung and plant wastes as organic fertiliser and pesticides; to date, CCEPE has trained 40 women farmers in Asa and 20 women farmers in Kaima, resulting in more bountiful harvests and economic savings.

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  • Texas Trees launches a five-year plan to make South Dallas more green

    December 04, 2024 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Texas Trees Foundation is bringing thousands of trees to Dallas communities experiencing the worst of the urban heat island effect to help keep them cool. The organization supplies the trees and teaches residents how to care for them.

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  • Resilience in the Sundarbans: How Shrimp Farming is Helping Communities Adapt to Climate Change

    December 02, 2024 |

    News Sense |

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    Response Location: India, Sundarbans

    Communities in the Sundarbans have adopted shrimp farming as a sustainable livelihood strategy; the approach has proven successful, with environmental benefits and many farmers earning a good income.

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  • How Keene's community air monitoring project could be a national climate solution

    November 29, 2024 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    A professor at Keene State College, her students, and community volunteers installed affordable, commercial air monitors throughout the New Hampshire town to fill gaps in available data. The monitors help them track air quality in real time and alert the public when pollution levels rise.

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  • Una red de jardines nativos florece en Miami y rescata especies en peligro

    November 27, 2024 |

    El Tiempo Latino |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Native Plant Network, una iniciativa de educación y conservación, ha creado un sistema de entrega de cinco plantas nativas gratuitas a cada persona en el red, ayudando la creación de un corredor de plantas nativas en Miami.

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  • Think Utah farmers should do without irrigation? Here's what that looks like

    November 25, 2024 |

    KUER Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Farmers in southeast Utah grow wheat and other select grains without irrigation, a technique called dryland farming. Relying only on rainwater eases water pressure amid droughts.

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  • Building for the climate: How it's done in Switzerland

    November 24, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    A cooperative in Switzerland is building sustainable apartments using recycled materials and green building practices to create carbon-neutral communal living spaces. These “cluster apartments” cut down on living space per person and save energy.

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  • Forest therapy for wildfire survivors

    November 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Social workers, psychotherapists, and community leaders in the California towns impacted by the Camp Fire were trained as forest therapy guides to help residents emotionally recover from the disaster and reconnect with nature. They offer free guided walks full of interactive activities and conversations.

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  • Can Fungi Save This Endangered Hawaiian Tree?

    October 30, 2024 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Conservationists in Hawaii are growing seedlings of the critically endangered na’u tree alongside mycorrhizal fungi instead of fertilizers and pesticides to mimic their natural growing process. The fungi support the plant in a variety of ways, like sucking up more water and providing mineral nutrients, which helps the seedlings grow at a rapid pace.

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  • In a Paris suburb, greener schoolyards beat the heat

    October 24, 2024 |

    Planet Forward |

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    Response Location: France, Aubervilliers

    The Oasis project transforms asphalt-covered schoolyards into fresh oases, resulting in 2-4°C temperature drops in the renovated courtyards and also cooling the surrounding school buildings.

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