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  • Maryland needs teachers. It's filling classrooms with laid-off federal workers.

    October 15, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Feds to Eds recruits laid-off federal workers to help fill teaching shortages, leveraging these candidates’ specialized experience and helping them convert their skills for the classroom. Participants can complete an alternative certification program at one of five area campuses, and 16 of the 18 students who’ve finished the program so far are now teaching in classrooms.

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  • This Nigerian Lab is Farming Without Soil to Rethink Food Security

    October 14, 2025 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    Soilless Farm Lab, a Nigerian agricultural technology hub, has trained over 10,000 youth in hydroponic farming since 2019, leading to employment opportunities and demonstrating a climate-resilient approach that uses 90% less water while producing food year-round in a country facing severe food insecurity and land degradation.

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  • Inside the Colorado factory where AtmosZero is electrifying steam

    October 14, 2025 |

    Canary Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    AtmosZero's modular electric heat pump technology replaces gas-fired industrial boilers to produce steam at up to 165°C, demonstrated at New Belgium brewery where it provides 30-40% of steam needs with 200% efficiency, though at higher installation costs and lower efficiency than waste-heat systems.

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  • A Wall of Trees is Reversing Desertification and Empowering Communities in Nigeria

    October 12, 2025 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoda, Kano

    The Wall of Trees initiative in Nigeria's Makoda village created a four-tiered barrier of windbreak, orchard, woodlot, and economic trees that tripled crop yields and provided income opportunities for 200 women, successfully reversing desertification on 15 hectares over two decades.

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  • Are Low-Emission Zones Freeing European Cities from Smog?

    October 10, 2025 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: Belgium, Brussels

    European cities have implemented low-emission zones that gradually restrict older, polluting vehicles from entering designated urban areas, in an effort to reduce air pollution. While effectiveness varies by region, since implementing these zones, Brussels has seen a 36% reduction in nitrogen oxide levels over five years, and air quality improvements extending up to five kilometers beyond the zone boundaries.

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  • Tribal governments fend off the worst of the impacts of the shutdown

    October 09, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States

    Ahead of the U.S. federal government shutdown in October, tribal nations banded together to advocate for their citizens, lobbying members of Congress and writing a joint letter highlighting the federal government’s tribal treaty obligations. Though a significant number of federal employees at the Bureau of Indian Affairs were furloughed, tribal governments have for the most part continued to operate as usual and agencies such as the Indian Health Service have been able to maintain their funding.

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  • Violence Against Women: Can India's All-Women Police Stations Deliver Justice?

    October 08, 2025 |

    upBeat |

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    Response Location: India

    India's All-Women Police Stations (AWPS)—specialized police stations staffed entirely by women and designed to handle gender-based violence cases—have increased reporting of crimes against women by 29% and improved arrest rates for certain offenses by 15%.

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  • Making the Invisible Visible

    October 08, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    Citizen science initiatives across Europe are using accessible technology to expose toxic emissions that official monitoring misses, triggering institutional responses ranging from increased enforcement to new pollution-control infrastructure.

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  • Behind the Curtains: Inside Nigeria's Shadow Network of Abortion Care

    October 08, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Komfot Health operates a technology-driven network providing post-abortion care and sexual reproductive health services across Nigeria. The organization trains healthcare providers to address biases, uses a chatbot system for patient triage and connects women to verified medical facilities in six states, acting as intermediaries between women seeking care and trusted healthcare providers. Since launching in 2024, Komfot Health has served over 1,790 women.

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  • The Forest That Proves It: How Sudbury Reclaimed a Moonscape

    October 08, 2025 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sudbury, Ontario

    The Regreening Sudbury Project transformed a lunar-like wasteland into thriving forest through decades of systematic tree planting (10+ million trees), soil amendments, and transparent open-data tracking. This resulted in a 98% reduction in air pollution and 50% recovery of fish populations while creating a replicable model for ecological restoration.

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