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  • In France, One Group Seeks to Do the Unthinkable: Unite the Climate Movement

    Anna Pujol-Mazzini

    September 03, 2024 |

    The Revelator |

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    Response Location: France

    A French climate movement called Earth Uprisings is bringing together activists from a variety of social justice causes across many progressive groups to call for climate action, an unprecedented kind of collaboration for the country.

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  • Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

    Alexandra Talty

    June 27, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Researchers, conservationists, and shellfish farmers on both U.S. coasts are starting and studying seaweed farms as a way to soak up excess nutrients in acidic water to help shellfish survive and grow.

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  • Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay's strategy to improve water quality?

    Bennet Goldstein

    June 21, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States

    A unique regional cleanup program was designed to reduce the nutrient runoff in the Chesapeake Bay using a legally-enforceable pollution quota across six U.S. states.

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  • Can AI Help Cut Plastic Waste From the Food System?

    Lisa Held

    June 03, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    The new Global Plastics AI Policy Tool, developed by plastic waste and ecology experts, uses machine learning to predict how policy interventions like capping production and investing in recycling infrastructure would reduce plastic pollution by 2050. It could be of particular use as countries work on an international, legally binding treaty to address the plastic crisis.

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  • Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds

    Alex Hager Heather Sackett

    May 30, 2024 |

    KUNC |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    A federally-funded water conservation program, the System Conservation Pilot Program, is paying farmers in the Upper Colorado River Basin to not use the river’s water during the irrigation season. Leaving their fields dry for the program can earn them more money than they would get from growing crops.

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  • This Utah County Will Buy Your Lawn to Save Water

    Morgan Sjogren

    May 14, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    A turf buyback program run by the Washington County Water Conservancy District in Utah pays residents to swap their lawns for native plants. It's reducing the amount of water used for landscaping amid a drought.

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  • A Peruvian river with rights: the defenders of the Marañón

    Silvia Viñas Eliezer Budasoff

    May 04, 2024 |

    El Hilo |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru

    A group of Kukama women, a native community of the Peruvian Amazon, worked with lawyers from the Legal Defense Institute to sue the Peruvian State. The lawsuit was intended prevent and clean up oil spills and pollution in the Marañón River that they’d been fighting against for years. In a historic ruling, the judge recognized that the river has rights and must be protected.

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  • Citec como agente de soluciones climáticas

    María A. Carrasquilla R.

    April 27, 2024 |

    La Estrella de Panamá |

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    Response Location: Panama

    El Centro de Innovación, Investigación y Tecnología Hidroambiental (Citec) realiza proyectos e investigaciones de forma independiente, utilizando tecnologías de punta y disruptivas, que buscan respuestas a los cambios ambientales. Incorpora investigadores panameños y colabora con universidades locales y internacionales para destacar varias iniciativas.

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  • Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts

    Kimberley Brown

    April 22, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The startup Ichthion created a system that skims plastic off of rivers in Ecuador to prevent it from reaching the ocean. A floating barrier stretches across the river to catch the plastic without disrupting fish, and a person manually guides the pollution onto the shore where it’s sorted for recycling.

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  • Poopspotting: How AI and satellites can detect illegal manure spreading in Wisconsin

    Bennet Goldstein

    March 07, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    An artificial intelligence model developed by researchers at Standford University analyzes aerial photographs to detect fields with manure illegally spread on them in the winter. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources can use that information to manually check fields for compliance with regulations that are meant to prevent water contamination.

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