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  • Role of Traditional Birth Attendants in saving lives during deliveries

    August 25, 2025 |

    ABC YOLA |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Adamawa

    Traditional birth attendants provide maternal care to women in hard to reach areas. With government help through the Mama2Mama program, several TBAs are undergoing training to provide safer, more effective maternal care.

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  • Demand high for special education preschools in Maine

    August 24, 2025 |

    The Maine Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Last school year, the Maine Department of Education began offering speech, physical, and occupational therapy to three- to five-year-olds in 17 public school districts, with plans to roll out the services for preschoolers in 34 more. So far, the state has been able to provide services to all eligible students in that age range, totaling more than 400.

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  • How Tanzania's cardiac care transformation saves lives, strengthens economy

    August 22, 2025 |

    The Citizen |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Tanzania

    The Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute, launched in 2015, is a semi-autonomous public institution specializing in cardiac care, helping to make it more accessible and affordable for locals. When they first opened, the institution started with just 15 general hospital beds, but has since grown to 156, and performs about 800 surgeries each year.

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  • 'Survivors deserve better': State support needed to expand Maine's rape kit tracking pilot

    August 22, 2025 |

    WGME-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Maine's rape kit tracking pilot program, designed to give sexual assault survivors more control in their investigations, works like package tracking. Victims receive a postcard with a kit number after evidence collection and can check the status of their kit online.

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  • Fungi and spruce may help solve Alaska's plastic pollution problem

    August 22, 2025 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    University of Alaska researchers have developed biodegradable insulation boxes and building materials made from local beetle-killed spruce trees and fungal fibers that successfully shipped seafood across the country while offering a sustainable alternative to plastic foam that could reduce Alaska's 1+ million annual styrofoam boxes, create local jobs, and address rural housing quality issues.

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  • One Tree at a Time

    August 22, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    Moldova's National Reforestation Project, launched in 2023 with a €739 million budget, has planted over 10,000 hectares of new forest (36+ million trees) with a 67% survival rate, demonstrating early success in restoring degraded land and supporting rural communities, though it's currently achieving only half of its annual planting targets due to personnel shortages, supply chain issues, and weather challenges.

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  • 食用コオロギの可能性を広げ、世界の食糧・環境危機を打開へ

    August 22, 2025 |

    JStories |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Japan, Tokyo

    「食糧危機への対応として、食用コオロギの販売事業を展開するエコロギー社の事例。温暖な気候のカンボジアを生産拠点とし、契約農家の収入を増やしながら、日本向けには練り餌である「レオバイド」の原料として食用コオロギを活用している。」

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  • Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

    August 21, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Namibia

    Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia gives rural communities the rights to manage and profit from wildlife through organized conservancies, which has dramatically recovered wildlife populations (like elephants growing from 7,000 to 26,000) while providing economic incentives that motivate communities to protect rather than poach animals, even during severe droughts.

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  • Fifty Years After Mount Laurel, Affordable Housing Is Gaining Ground in New Jersey

    August 21, 2025 |

    Next City |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    In 2024, New Jersey passed a new law that formalized longstanding requirements that municipalities periodically submit affordable housing plans to the state. The law also created a new mediation program for municipalities that want to dispute the state’s calculation of its affordable housing requirements, and the new system has helped cut down on lawsuits that slow down the process of getting new housing approved.

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  • Marmara Denizi için mücadele ve umudun adı: “Pina”

    August 20, 2025 |

    Evrensel |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    Marmara’nın Umudu Pina projesi, kritik tehlike altındaki pina türünü koruyarak denizin doğal filtrasyon kapasitesini güçlendiriyor ve Marmara’nın ekolojik iyileşmesine somut bir çözüm sunuyor. Proje, 600’den fazla dalışla popülasyonun haritalanması ve izlenmesini toplumsal farkındalık ve eğitim çalışmalarıyla birleştirerek ‘Keşfet–Bilinçlendir–Koru’ modeli üzerinden işliyor.

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