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How Southern Africa's Elephants Bounced Back

Veronika Perková

March 05, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe

The once-declining elephant population at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is now stable because the rangers use the core-buffer model to keep them safe. To ensure they have enough room to live comfortably, the elephants are allowed to wander far into less-protected zones. But the park has a well-protected core patrolled by rangers that elephants can return to when they feel threatened.

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Children in the courtroom: How Virginia judges are giving kids a voice

Jenna Zibton

March 05, 2024 |

Solutionaries |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

Judges in Roanoke, Virginia, are ensuring children have a voice in the courtroom to improve the way cases are handled and the outcomes for children in foster care. They encourage children to speak up, ask them what they want, prepare them in advance with worksheets and letters, and even offer them gifts like a book or stuffed animal.

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Art therapy helps family caregivers cope with hard times

Eleanore Catolico

March 05, 2024 |

New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Pontiac, Michigan

The Art Experience provides free art therapy classes for caregivers, offering a space for them to gather for respite and creative self-expression. At the classes, caregivers learn mindfulness, self-care practices and meet one-on-one with certified art therapists to discuss their individual situations and learn ways to cope with stress.

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Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but this city is doing it — building by building

Jeff Brady

March 04, 2024 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

The town of Ithaca is working with its local gas utility and area homeowners to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by removing gas pipes from homes and businesses by switching them over to electricity, primarily from renewable sources. While the transition is a long process, the town expects to achieve about a 30% reduction in emissions in the next year.

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How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

Peter Yeung

March 04, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Colombia, Medellín

Medellín, Colombia, is combating the urban heat island effect by creating green corridors across the city. Over 2.5 million plants and trees were carefully selected to maximize impact and planted on buildings and along roads and waterways.

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Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman

March 04, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, United States

Native tribes and First Nations in the Great Lakes Region are successfully reviving wild rice, a native crop that is deemed “extremely vulnerable” to climate change and lost much of its wetland habitat. The tribes’ restoration projects involve seeding lakebeds, monitoring water levels and quality, educating others on the importance of the crop, and harvesting it by hand.

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How an area agency on aging helped bridge the gap for in-home care

Katie Ellington Serrao

March 03, 2024 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

The Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging hires state-tested nursing assistants (STNA) to act as community care specialists and provide in-home care to seniors. This care provides respite for unpaid family caregivers and allows seniors to continue living independently in their homes. In 2023 alone, the program served 130 residents, providing 2,371 hours of in-home care.

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The Smart Heart: How AI Is Sharpening Cardiovascular Medicine

Michaela Haas

March 01, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Rochester, Minnesota

Several hospitals are beginning to use artificial intelligence, like Chat GPT’s medical assistant Suzanne, to make cardiovascular medicine more accurate and effective. AI can detect illnesses that are hard to see with the human eye, interpret test results and make diagnoses quicker and help doctors provide more effective treatment to patients. Since AI emerged in healthcare in 2018, the FDA has approved about 700 AI and machine learning-enabled medical devices.

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Protecting Sacramento's unhoused pet community

Keyshawn Davis

March 01, 2024 |

The Sacramento Observer |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

The Bradshaw Animal Shelter’s PAWS mobile clinic travels to homeless encampments and shelters throughout the community to provide care to residents’ pets, including vaccinations, microchips, flea, tick and parasite prevention, as well as spay and neuter services, free of charge.

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Underground seed banks hold promise for ecological restoration

Josephine Woolington

March 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

Indigenous peoples across the western United States are bringing back native plants that disappeared many years ago by practicing natural regeneration. By slowly bringing ecosystems that were disrupted by human activity back to their natural state over time, the seeds and roots preserved underground are given the chance to flourish.

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