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App makes it possible for vision-impaired people to see into space

Jessica Hinchliffe

September 11, 2018 |

ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Australia, Brisbane

A new app provides a way for visually impaired people to see into space. Using sound and vibration, the app Astreos provides the location and information about heavenly bodies in the night sky.

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Cool Ways of Keeping Things Cool

Tom Colls Harriet Noble

August 20, 2018 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United Kingdom

Inventors have come up with energy-efficient refrigeration options. A fridge uses water and ice to protect vaccines in places with irregular access to electricity. An engine that runs on liquid nitrogen reduces fossil fuel dependence in food shipping.

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How Forecasting Models Are Changing the Way We Fight Fires

Jenessa Duncombe

August 17, 2018 |

Eos |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

The National Weather Service has been helping firefighting crews better prepare for and fight wildfires. They’ve developed a model called the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh-Smoke (HRRR-Smoke) to show where there’s higher smoke density and what direction it’s heading toward. The agency is hoping to continue their work to become better at preventative measures so that towns and cities can prepare ahead of time.

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Climate Change, the Rio Grande and Border Water

Naveena Sadasivam Zoë Schlanger Daniel Wolfe

August 16, 2018 |

Texas Observer |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

The Rio Grande River, which provides water to 6 million people and irrigates 2 million acres of farmland, is one of many transnational sources of water imperiled by climate change. Indeed, many states and countries that share water are drawn into conflict over dwindling resources. One relationship between officials in Mexico and the U.S. offers some hope that (with the right coaching) countries can cooperate, even in the face of greater political problems.

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Can the Great Lakes continue to fend off an increasingly thirsty world?

Ron Seely

August 16, 2018 |

Ensia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Muskegon, Michigan

The Great Lakes contain 84 percent of the surface freshwater in North America—a staggering 21 percent of the surface freshwater worldwide. To manage the resource sustainably, all eight lake-bordering states, Congress, and Canadian provinces created the Great Lakes Compact in 2008, which has regulated and curbed water use. An evaluation of the agreement ten years later shows promising yet mixed results. And critically, it asks whether strong policies can withstand a future of growing water scarcity.

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The clock is ticking on dealing with western Kansas' drying Ogallala Aquifer

Karen Dillon

August 10, 2018 |

The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Topeka, Kansas

Western Kansas' finite Ogallala aquifer is the bedrock of an agricultural region that accounts for 10 percent of Kansas' economy. But thanks to decades of over-drafting for irrigation, the aquifer is on track to run dry in the not-so-distant future. Now some are calling for regional conservation, and some smaller programs have shown promise; however, the challenges of scalability and political wrangling remain vast.

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See Florida's New Underwater Sculpture Park, Which Is Delighting Scuba Divers and Oysters Alike

Sarah Cascone

July 11, 2018 |

Artnet |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Florida

In support of artistic creation, marine life, and tourism an underwater sculpture park has opened in Florida. The sculptures have been placed underwater in the Gulf of Mexico in the hopes of creating an artificial reef environment for study.

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A chemical breakthrough could eat the plastic pollution crisis

Bonnie Christian

July 01, 2018 |

Wired |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, East Menlo Park, California

When plastics are recycled with remnants of food or grease on them, they are discarded due to market regulations, thus adding to the world's trash problem. One researcher has found a solution to account for these: a bacteria that liquefies the contaminated materials.

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Electric Rain

Amina Nazarli

June 16, 2018 |

AzerNews |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Turning rainwater into electric power may sound farfetched, but it has become a reality thanks to 15-year-old Reyhan Jamalova in Azerbaijan. Appropriately dubbed Rainergy, this new source of renewable energy has the potential to bring power to underprivileged communities as well as be marketed internationally.

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A Brazilian unimpressed by 'ecological toilets' invents an alternative to flushing

Gabriel Alves

June 14, 2018 |

Haaretz |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Brazil

Flushing a toilet is not only wasteful in terms of water usage, but it is also costly. "Few people know how many liters of water are used, or how much they pay for each liter of water used at home," explains Ezequiel Vedana, the inventor of Piipee - a devise that eliminates the need to flush altogether and has been called a global climate innovation. In fact, when one business tested this devise that emits a deodorizing and decolorizing solution, they saw their water bill cut in half within four months.

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