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  • The Great Wall of Surajpura

    March 29, 2024 |

    The Migration Story |

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    Response Location: India, Surajpura

    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) is a job program that employs locals to work on climate resilience projects like building water security infrastructure to support local farms and communities. In the past year, with the help of the work from MGNREGA, local farms have come back to life, wells have been replenished and migratory birds have begun returning to the area.

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  • He's Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water

    March 28, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: China

    Cities in China are moving away from using traditional water managment approaches, like drainage pipes and flood walls. Instead, they are becoming “sponge cities” by installiing green infrastructure designed to absob excess water, like green roofs and ponds.

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  • How Unfamiliar Fish Are Helping Mainers Fight Food Insecurity

    March 28, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association launched a program to support local fishing businesses and address food insecurity during the pandemic that continues to do so today. The nonprofit buys fish at a more than fair price from local businesses and donates them to food banks and public school food programs.

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  • Green Fuels Are Accelerating Shipping Decarbonization

    March 27, 2024 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Companies in the shipping industry are using green hydrogen as “low-carbon” fuel to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. It’s created by using renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then mixing the hydrogen with green methanol or ammonia.

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  • Light at the End of the Tunnel

    March 26, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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  • New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand 'climate-smart' acres

    March 25, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States

    A multi-partner effort in the United States, led by The Nature Conservancy, is helping farmers adopt agroforestry practices by providing funding and training. This style of farming encourages the growing of a variety of plants to enhance biodiversity and capture more carbon dioxide.

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  • In Denver, e-bike vouchers run out as fast as Taylor Swift tickets

    March 22, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The city of Denver, Colorado, is encouraging its residents to reduce their transportation emissions with an incredibly popular e-bike rebate program. Several times a year, the city offers a set amount of income-based vouchers on a first-come, first-served basis that cover up to $1,400 of an e-bike purchase.

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  • Months after devastating floods, Vermont renews efforts to aid climate-friendly rebuilds

    March 20, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Hardwick, Vermont

    After extreme flooding damaged homes, the energy efficiency utility Efficiency Vermont offered emergency flood rebates to those impacted. Recovery teams helped people plan and find funding to repair and replace energy systems and appliances with more efficient models that will help them reach their decarbonization goals. In this circumstance, exceptions were made to include rebates for high-efficiency fossil fuel systems, too.

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  • Ratas en el paraíso

    March 19, 2024 |

    Radio Ambulante |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands

    Conservationists are eradicating an invasive species of rat on the Galapagos Islands to protect native species, many of which are endangered, and local agriculture. To do so, they capture native species that could be harmed, then scatter rat poison around the islands by hand, drone, and helicopter.

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  • Florida is paying bounty hunters to control its python population

    March 19, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Python removal agents with South Florida’s Water Management District hunt the invasive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades to prevent the snakes from continuing to destroy the ecosystem. Since launching the program in 2017, agents have removed 8,565 pythons across the state.

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