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Insight: Inside Brazil's battle to save the Amazon with satellites and strike forces

Chris Arsenault

September 28, 2016 |

Reuters |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Brazil, Brasilia

13 years ago, Brazil didn't have satellite data or heat mapping to track illegal logging. Neither did they have weapon wielding agents working to stop ecological crime. These tools, in addition to the help of indigenous Brazilians is making the goal of ending Amazon deforestation by 2030 seem more and more likely.

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Inside the fight to save Gabler's Creek, a hidden Queens waterway

Nathan Kensinger

September 15, 2016 |

Curbed New York |

Photojournalism |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

Gabler Creek is located at the edges of Queens New York and its natural habitat has been saved from developers through the work of community organizations. Generations of volunteers have turned what could have been an industrial wasteland into a healthy marsh and park.

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'No one leaves anymore'. How Ethiopia's restored drylands offer hope

Cathy Watson

August 03, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ethiopia, Mekelle

Environmental refugees in Ethiopia flee their country because there are no jobs without healthy land. A group of former refugees have returned to Ethiopia with a business venture in Gergera to improve the land by regreening efforts, foresting, and building water conservation systems. The new businesses demonstrated such positive effects that the region is now on the brink of resettlement due to improved environmental conditions.

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From adversaries to allies in the fight for forest health

JR Logan

May 29, 2016 |

The Taos News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Taos, New Mexico

Locals around Taos, New Mexico take control over forest thinning efforts as part of The Collaborative Stewardship program. Rather than import larger thinning companies to work on local forests, the program sells plots of land to residents with timber experience, and these locals have a year to thin their allotted forest area.

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Seeing the forest through the trees?

Matt Hildner

May 29, 2016 |

The Pueblo Chieftain |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Blanca, Colorado

A new timber mill in Costilla County could majorly improve the forest health of the greater region by thinning undergrowth to reduce risk of wildfires, curbing the spread of invasive insects, and decreasing the demand for water in the face of drought. The mill could also create jobs and further economic development for the area.

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Birth Control for Bambi

Benjamin Goldfarb

April 15, 2016 |

Undark |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

The overpopulation of white-tailed deer is a conservation realization and an environmental disaster for the communities that harbor them. Hastings-on-Hudson, a progressive community, has opted for a humane birth control method PZP that is injected by darts into does. The method is successful for its non-lethal approach and the population growth has slowed, but as of yet has not significantly decreased.

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Tree Regeneration Restoring Hope

Charles Karis

March 25, 2016 |

Inter Press Service News Agency |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Nakuru

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a technique in which farmers protect and prune tree stumps with the goal of the trees contributing to more fertile soil. In Kenya, FMNR has helped farmers survive drought conditions, increase their harvests, and improve food security. The training program of this technique has supported 160,000 farmers in East Africa.

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How Carbon Farming Could Reverse Climate Change

Vera Liang Chang

March 16, 2016 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Veracruz

Carbon farming is a method that focuses on sequestering atmospheric carbon on agricultural land. While farms around the world already do it, it's not anywhere near the scale necessary to avert climate catastrophe. But paired with aggressive emissions reduction, the practice could not only mitigate global warming, but also help the most impoverished communities.

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Large malt producer uses wood chips to fuel power plant

Gregg Hennigan

March 04, 2016 |

Rock Road Recycle |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Shakopee, Minnesota

Rahr Malting, a brewery in Shakopee, MN, has found a creative way to sustainably address their energy needs. The company partners with the Mdewakanton Sioux Community to use waste barley hulls from the malting factory to generate electricity for their facilities, selling excess power to the public grid while the waste heat sprouts the malt to make beer.

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Costa Rica - Green Energy

Madeline Taylor

February 14, 2016 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Costa Rica

Costa Rica has pioneered a methodology that has resulted in getting most of its electricity from hydroelectric plants, reversing deforestation through implementing financial incentives and achieving a 99 percent fossil-fuel free year. This progressive approach has put the country in the running to become the first carbon-neutral country by 2021.

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