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  • The indigenous community protecting Himalayan sacred cattle in India

    July 27, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Arunachal Pradesh

    The Indigenous Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India, builds “living fences” by attaching barbed wire to the trunks of orchid trees to protect the mithun they are rearing, a sacred species of cattle listed as vulnerable by the International Union For Conservation of Nature. Many of the mithuns died from conflict with humans and animal attacks when they were left to free-range graze.

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  • All hands on deck — The social enterprise deploying young people to protect our seas

    July 25, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    A social enterprise that started in the Netherlands and is spreading to countries around the Celtic Sea is training young people to work in marine industries while restoring ocean biodiversity. The young trainees work on projects like marine mammal observation and planting seagrass.

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  • My Neck of the Woods

    July 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Community activism in the late 1800s led to the creation of a unique 6.1 million-acre forest preserve in New York called Adirondack Park. It’s explicitly protected by the state constitution and consists of half publicly-owned land and half privately-owned land.

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  • Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin

    July 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The government-funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program is meant to help households across the United States keep afford the cost of heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer.

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  • A New Wildlife Crossing Provides Safe Passage Over a Busy Interstate

    July 17, 2024 |

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    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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  • How Ecotourism Became an Unexpected Climate Solution in an At-Risk Guatemalan National Park

    July 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The community living in Northern Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park monitors the landscape for fires set by people looking to clear the forest illegally and is trained to prevent them from spreading. They’re focusing on ecotourism as an alternative way to earn a living.

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  • Can New York City Treat Its Food Scraps As More Than Trash?

    July 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s Compost Project supports a network of community compost operations to reduce the waste sent to landfills. Each composter operates differently based on local conditions and needs. BK Rot, for example, employs local Black and Brown youth to collect organic scraps from homes and businesses and sells its compost.

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

    July 12, 2024 |

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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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  • In drought-prone Oaxaca, indigenous women are reviving ancient techniques to preserve water

    July 12, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    The nonprofit Group to Promote Education and Sustainable Development teaches women in drought-ridden Indigenous communities across Mexico to use ancestral methods of irrigation and grow drought-resilient medicinal plants. The four-year training program also aims to address gender disparity through empowerment. Participants are encouraged to set up savings funds to increase their financial independence and attend group therapy sessions, among other activities.

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  • Facing Climate Gentrification, an Historic African American Community Outside Charleston, S.C., Embraces Conservation

    July 07, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ten Mile, South Carolina

    Ten Mile, a community in South Carolina settled by freed slaves after the Civil War, is fighting climate gentrification and flooding by preserving land through forestry projects, land trusts, and greenbelt initiatives. Saving green spaces this way maintains the character of the historic Black neighborhood while promoting flood resiliency.

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