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  • These Cottages Were Built to Defy Storms—and Pricey Rent—in the Florida Keys

    August 27, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Affordable housing for Florida Keys residents is often vulnerable to damage or destruction by extreme weather. The Monroe County Land Trust has created housing that is both affordable for county residents and built to withstand floods and wind.

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  • How Forecasting Models Are Changing the Way We Fight Fires

    August 17, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    The National Weather Service has been helping firefighting crews better prepare for and fight wildfires. They’ve developed a model called the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh-Smoke (HRRR-Smoke) to show where there’s higher smoke density and what direction it’s heading toward. The agency is hoping to continue their work to become better at preventative measures so that towns and cities can prepare ahead of time.

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  • New Orleans floods with heavy rainstorms. Magnolias could be part of the solution

    August 17, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    New Orleans, Louisiana is infamously known as a place of cultural celebration and community, but it's also a city plagued by consistent flooding. To reduce the impacts of heavy rainfall, one city-backed initiative is incentivizing people to replace their anti-absorbent concrete with plants and flowers that are designed to take in large amounts of water.

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  • Wisconsin Reservation Offers A Climate Success Story And A Warning

    August 15, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Odanah, Wisconsin

    A Native American community in Onadah, Wisconsin has been hailed by scientists as a town that successfully relocated before a major flood destroyed it completely. The relocation process, which included some federally subsidized rental housing on higher ground and forced displacement by federal law, brings up a painful history of forced relocation for Native American communities in the United States.

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  • At a clinic for torture survivors, an Iranian refugee works to build a new life

    August 14, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Greece, Athens

    Holistic care can help torture survivors begin healing from the physical and psychological consequences of their experiences. Médecins Sans Frontières has provided services to 600 refugees and migrants in need at a single center in downtown Athens. “Some of these memories are unforgettable, but being here is very helpful,” said one patient who experienced torture and captivity in Iran.

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  • People are donating their frequent flyer miles to reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border

    August 10, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Donating frequent flyer miles is a powerful way to help people experiencing disaster. Miles4Migrants, which typically transports Syrian refugee families, is using crowdsourced miles to reunite migrant families separated in the United States.

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  • The story of a recovery: how hurricane Maria boosted small farms

    August 08, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, not only were the local communities devastated, but so were 80 percent of the country's crops. With the farmlands wiped cleaned, farmers seized the opportunity to start from scratch which not only resulted in increased crop production, but has helped create an economy less reliant on imports.

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  • What are coastal nuclear power plants doing to address climate threats?

    August 08, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Somerset

    The World Nuclear Association counts 50 nuclear power plants being built, with 150 more in the planning stages. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, nuclear plants on coasts began to be built with contingencies that account for sea-level rise. But new studies suggest that many such plans rely on outdated climate change projections.

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  • Planting Trees to Help Dallas Breathe

    August 07, 2018 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    In 2016, the Texas Trees Foundation and federal Trust for Public Land partnered to use GIS technology in greening Dallas, Texas, and plant some 1,000 trees to start. Not only does the initiative reduce respiratory problems like asthma--over the next 40 years, the new tree cover is expected to create about $2.9 million in environmental benefits, sucking around 250 tons of CO2 from the air and capturing around 4 million gallons of stormwater.

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  • Win For Wetlands: Program Helps Farmers Conserve More Flood-Prone Land

    August 03, 2018 |

    Ohio Valley ReSource |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    For landowners living in close to proximity to the Mississippi River, this means continuously facing the impacts of unexpected flooding. The Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program offers the farmers on these lands the opportunity to protect and restore the wetlands in order to reduce the side effects of living in flood territory.

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