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  • How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely

    May 06, 2025 |

    National Geographic |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    In Morocco's desert oasis, combining traditional ecological knowledge (communal groundwater management, rainwater harvesting, sustainable agriculture) and cultural renewal (a music school and festival) helps combat desertification, encourages youth retention, and strengthens community resilience, although evidence of long-term ecological restoration is still limited.

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  • SoCal officials unleash sterile mosquitoes in bid to curb disease — with promising results

    May 06, 2025 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Local agencies tasked with controlling disease-spreading organisms are releasing sterile male mosquitoes to help reduce the pest’s population and prevent the spread of dengue. This strategy has decreased the mosquito population by about 82% in parts of Southern California, marking the first time in eight years that the population has declined instead of increased.

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  • Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

    May 05, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

    The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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  • The Future of California's Climate-Smart Farming Programs

    May 05, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California’s climate-smart agriculture programs—funded via the state's Cap-and-Trade revenues—provide grants enabling farmers to adopt sustainable practices like drip irrigation, soil regeneration, and manure management, significantly reducing water use, greenhouse gases, and economic vulnerability to climate change while boosting long-term farm resilience.

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  • Mental Health Monday: How ACS keeps students safe with AI

    May 05, 2025 |

    WBIR-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Anderson County, Tennessee

    Gaggle monitors student behaviors on school devices using AI software to identify keywords on the device that could indicate a mental health crisis. The AI alerts a Gaggle employee, who evaluates the situation and elevates it to the school and local law enforcement if necessary.

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  • Crisis Survivors in Australia Are Rebuilding Their Wardrobes in Style

    May 05, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Thread Together collects unsold, brand-new clothes from fashion retailers that would otherwise end up in landfills and distributes them to people in need across Australia who are facing clothing insecurity after crises such as floods, homelessness or domestic violence. The organization provides dignity-driven choices through mobile wardrobe vans, online "shopping," and local pop-up stores, enabling individuals to rebuild their lives with confidence and dignity.

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  • From privilege to subjectivity: reflecting on masculinities to improve gender equity

    May 05, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Program H is a group educational methodology that works with young men through participatory workshops, role-playing, and debates to reflect on toxic masculinities and promote more equitable attitudes toward gender. It has been implemented in more than 30 countries since 2002, successfully facilitated by males who act as gender equity role models. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/24kd

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  • Trump has cut global climate finance. China is more than happy to step in.

    May 04, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: China

    China's strategic provision of affordable renewable energy infrastructure—such as solar panels and wind turbines—to developing countries like the Philippines, fills the vacuum caused by significant U.S. cuts in global climate finance under the Trump administration.

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  • This Youth-led Initiative is Debunking Myths About Health Insurance, PHCs in Nigeria's Capital

    May 03, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    DEAN Initiative's Youth Health Access Initiative addresses healthcare misconceptions among young people through targeted community outreach, educational workshops in local languages, and training programs for healthcare workers. The initiative specifically addresses myths that Primary Healthcare Centers are only for pregnant women and children, and that health insurance is only for the sick, helping to increase healthcare accessibility.

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  • Redes de esperanza: mujeres de Piura luchan contra la violencia de género

    May 03, 2025 |

    Norte Sostenible |

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    Response Location: Peru, Piura

    Las redes comunitarias de mujeres defensoras de Piura son estructuras organizadas que, desde 2018, brindan acompañamiento, formación y articulación interinstitucional a víctimas de violencia de género, combinando apoyo psicológico, rutas legales y empoderamiento económico. Han logrado que más mujeres se atrevan a denunciar violencia, han mejorado la coordinación entre instituciones públicas como policía y fiscalías, y han transformado a sobrevivientes en lideresas que rompen ciclos de violencia en sus comunidades. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/w0cx

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