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How protecting trees can fight gentrification

Caroline Tracey

December 19, 2022 |

High Country News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Activists in Los Angeles are taking legal action to ensure black walnut trees' protections are not violated by developers to help prevent gentrification and extreme heat.

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Flooding in Nigeria: victims help other victims survive difficult times

Kehinde Ogunyale

December 19, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Omoku, River State

The Crowd Funders initiative gathered funding to help feed and shelter families affected by flooding in Nigeria.

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UNICEF plans big expansion of program to educate Rohingya children in Bangladesh

Sharif Khiam, Abdur Rahman

December 16, 2022 |

BenarNews |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

The Myanmar Curriculum pilot project allows Rohingya children living in Bangladeshi refugee camps to be educated with the curriculum and language of their native country. The aim to make an eventual return to their home country easier. So far, 200,000 children have been enrolled, mostly in grades 1 through 4. UNICEF plans to scale the program to cover all 410,000 school-age children in the camps.

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Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico's Record-Breaking Wildfires

Sara Van Note

December 15, 2022 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: Santa Clara Native Reservation, United States, Gallinas, New Mexico

After fires and floods, the tribe of the Santa Clara Pueblo is restoring Santa Clara Canyon using traditional ecological knowledge to design mitigation and replanting methods using burned trees and strategic seeding. Now, they are sharing that knowledge at other locations needing restoration.

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As climate changes, Mekong farmers try floating rice

Thanh Hue

December 12, 2022 |

Mekong Eye |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Vietnam, An Giang

Researchers at the Climate Change Institute at An Giang University are working with farmers in Vietnam to popularize a better-tasting, more resilient strain of traditional floating rice to help them adapt to flooding and climate change.

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An Indigenous reservation has a novel way to grow food – below the earth's surface

Hallie Golden

December 03, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation, United States, South Dakota

The Oglala Sioux Tribe uses underground greenhouses to keep harvests safe from intensifying weather due to climate change and fight food insecurity in the community.

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Utah looks to expand cloud seeding to help with drought, Great Salt Lake

Ben Winslow

December 02, 2022 |

KSTU-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Tremonton, Utah

Utah’s state government and Department of Natural Resources provide residents with machines to increase winter storm precipitation through cloud seeding. The process uses heat from a propane burner to release silver iodide into the air, which can increase snowfall and help combat drought.

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Indian farmers turn to solar-powered fridges to fight food waste

Moushumi Basu

December 01, 2022 |

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Response Location: India

Solar-powered cold storage units help farmers in India to store their harvests during extreme heat instead of discarding their produce or trying to sell it quickly for cheap to avoid waste. The solar-powered option is significantly cheaper than typical electric cold storage, making it more accessible to small-scale farmers.

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Community Land Trusts Build Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing

Alexandra Applegate

December 01, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Big Pine Key, Florida

Community land trusts are nonprofits that buy land, build homes, and ensure the long-term affordability of the homes they build. A trust in Florida is not only ensuring homes stay affordable after natural disasters it is also focused on building units that can withstand storms so families do not need to rebuild.

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Farming After Disaster in Eastern Kentucky

Katie Myers, Rowan Roudebush

December 01, 2022 |

WMMT |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Letcher County, Kentucky

Several organizations, researchers, and area farmers alike are working to get local farmers back on track after catastrophic flooding in the summer of 2022 destroyed many farmers’ crops, tools, and homes by focusing on shifting toward more climate-resilient farming practices and providing resources like compost deliveries to help replenish soil.

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