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Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics

Kati Pohjanpalo, Lars Paulsson, Kari Lundgren

May 13, 2025 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Finland

By integrating data centers with district heating systems, Nordic countries are successfully reusing waste heat to warm thousands of homes, significantly reducing energy costs and emissions while highlighting geographic, regulatory, and power consumption challenges to scaling the approach further.

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La batalla científica para salvar «el glaciar del juicio final»

James Temple

April 07, 2025 |

MIT Technology Review |

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Response Location: United States

Arête Glacier Initiative, un grupo de científicos del MIT y del Dartmouth College, ha recaudado 5 millones de dólares para mejorar las previsiones de la subida del nivel del mar y estudiar la posibilidad de volver a congelar los glaciares en su lugar. Han usado los fondos para dar becas a cientificos que trabajan en soluciones críticas al cambio climático.

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Abandoned Coal Mines Are Becoming the Batteries of the Future

Natasha Khullar Relph

February 27, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States

Gravity batteries can store excess renewable energy in abandoned mine shafts, offering coal-dependent communities economic and environmental benefits. This energy storage tactic is being used in various iterations around the globe.

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Green Microgrids Are Powering a More Resilient Future

Eric Krebs

January 17, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Blue Lake Rancheria, United States, California

Microgrids, small-scale energy systems that can operate either independently or as part of the larger electric grid, are growing in popularity and effectiveness. In one example on tribal land in California, a microgrid saves 25 percent of electricity costs and reduces Blue Lake Rancheria's carbon footprint by hundreds of tons of carbon annually.

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Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade

Geetanjali Krishna, Sally Howard

December 05, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Rwanda

In Rwanda, a fleet of simple, efficient trucks is helping farmers get their harvest to market before the goods spoil. For one farmer renting space in one of the trucks, the improved market access enabled them to go from selling 400 to 4,000 kilograms of produce a week.

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How to build an AC that will get the world through hotter summers

Allyson Chiu , Emily Wright

October 05, 2024 |

The Washington Post |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: India, Thane

Innovators are developing new air conditioning units to keep people cool as temperatures and humidity rise without contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Alongside improved energy efficiency, the new tech focuses on sensing and reducing humidity in real-time and adjusting itself as humidity fluctuates throughout the day.

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How Asia's 5,000-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control

Xiaoying You

August 06, 2024 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

Architects across Asia are taking inspiration from a traditional form of agriculture called rice terraces to create flood-resilient infrastructure in cities that lack places for excess water to go. In Bangkok, for example, a university’s roof mimics the step-like design, and the water it holds is used to grow rice.

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How Frankfurt Harnesses Local Wind Currents for Urban Cooling

Jana Randow, Laura Millan

August 03, 2024 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: Germany, Frankfurt

Frankfurt is changing the way it designs its buildings to adapt to extreme heat. The city works with urban climatology researchers to ensure new housing and skyscrapers won’t impact the wind corridors that keep residents cool, and it promotes practices like installing green roofs.

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A New Wildlife Crossing Provides Safe Passage Over a Busy Interstate

Marlena Williams

July 17, 2024 |

Sentient |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington

Environmentalists, biologists, wildlife advocates, and even ski clubs formed the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition to push for wildlife crossings to be a part of a massive construction project on Washington’s heavily trafficked Snoqualmie Pass. The Department of Transportation took notice. It's working with other government agencies and wildlife experts to install bridges and tunnels designed for animals of all sizes to safely cross the road.

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Hoboken's resiliency parks fight flooding but come with a big price tag

Ted Goldberg

July 12, 2024 |

NJ Spotlight |

Broadcast TV News |

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Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

Resiliency parks in Hoboken, New Jersey, look like typical playgrounds and basketball courts. Unlike the average park, they have discrete drains and sit on top of underground tanks that prevent flooding by holding millions of gallons of rainwater.

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