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How the Fastest-Warming City in the Country Is Cooling Off

Erica Peterson

December 09, 2014 |

Politico |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

Although residents turn up their air conditioners, Louisville heat is increasing the city’s death rate by 39 people every year. The city mayor launched a tree commission for planting more trees and since 2011 has planted over 12,000 trees. The canopies from the tree offer cooling shade and bring down the temperature of the city as a whole. The response also includes the installation of green roofs and in-depth research on urban heat islands.

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'Big Dry' Lessons: Southwest can learn from Australia's drought

Marty Schladen

November 17, 2014 |

El Paso Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia, Kilmore, Victoria

In Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council was formed after a severe drought to bring together federal, state and regional governments and bridge parochial concerns. It was meant to manage the basin as a whole and end overuse and salinization of farm land, leveraging new technologies to adapt to new realities.

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Protecting the Rio Grande Basin's dwindling water

Marty Schladen

November 16, 2014 |

El Paso Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Elephant Butte, New Mexico

The El Paso Times reports from the heart of the Rio Grande Basin - where drought has led to dramatic decreases in water supply, and serious changes in management of river resources are called for - on how the region plans to tackle the effects of climate change. Citizens work to increase water regulations and frugality in order to find a solution to the dwindling water problem.

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Australia's city dwellers become water conscious

Marty Schladen

November 16, 2014 |

El Paso Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria

After the drought hit Australia in the early 2000s, city officials had to start thinking seriously about ways to conserve and creatively store their water. External tanks became the solution, storing rain runoff to create an available source of water for Melbourne residents. This solution may not fit every location, but there are other teachable lessons such as taking radically shorter showers.

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Hit by climate change, Assam river communities bury their pride, move into houses on stilts

Priyanka Borpujari

October 13, 2014 |

Scroll.In |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Dhemaji, Assam

Building a house on stilts is an age old tradition created by the Mishings, a tribe in India. The practice allowed them to live close to the river, without flooding their homes. In Assam, a state in India, the Mishings are viewed as a lower caste. But, heavy rainfall and flooding is forcing some Assamese to build their own houses on stilts. Still, some Assamese resist because they don’t want to be associated with the Mishings.

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Why Is Wyoming Safer?

Stephanie Joyce

September 17, 2014 |

Inside Energy |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Wyoming

During gas drilling boom in Wyoming, worker deaths were extremely high . In response occupational epidemiologists were hired to help improve worker safety.

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How Weeds Could Help Feed Billions in a Warming World

Lisa Palmer

June 05, 2014 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

The demand for food crops is increasing globally while the crop resilience is decreasing due to a warming climate and elevated CO2 levels. Scientists in Washington, DC are testing how to cross food crops with weeds, which have resilience against heat and many other environmental challenges.

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The Lady of the Mangroves

Wanjohi Kabukuru

May 18, 2014 |

Seychelles News Agency |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Bel Air

The 2004 tsunami that hit Asia caused significant damage in the islands of the Seychelles, destroying roads, homes, and shoreline. A teacher determined to restore her home through tangible action took a lead role in helping her students take conservation into their own hands by working to restore the mangroves that can protect their island from future storms.

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Fighting back a rising tide

Dan Morrison

April 21, 2014 |

Politico |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh, Chittagong

Bangladesh is fighting rising sea levels due to climate change. It's doing so with the help of foreign money and Dutch-inspired engineering.

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Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

Wanjohi Kabukuru

March 29, 2014 |

Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Victoria

Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.

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