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  • Colorado's latest tool to fight forest fires: Mushrooms

    Michael Booth

    October 26, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Gold Hill, Colorado

    The Colorado-based mycology center Boulder Mushroom is spreading fungi mycelium — the underground, root-looking part of a mushroom — across forest floors that were thinned to mitigate wildfires. The mushrooms quicken the pace at which sawdust and other potential fire fuel decays and improve soil health.

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  • The slow recovery of millennial-old salt marshes in Spain

    Helena Rodríguez

    October 19, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Spain, Bay of Cádiz

    In Spain's Bay of Cádiz, locals have spent years collaborating with universities, scientists, and government entities to restore their bay's traditional salt marshes. The results? A revived economic sector, a community adapted to rising sea levels, and protected migratory birds.

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  • The World's Soils Are Becoming Dangerously Degraded, but Rare Microbes Offer Hope

    Sandy Ong

    October 19, 2023 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    The startup Puna Bio collects microbes that live on the high-altitude La Puna plateau and turns them into a product that farmers can apply to soybeans to increase yields and improve soil health. Since they adapted to survive in such a harsh climate, the microbes can survive depleted soil and extreme weather to pass along key nutrients and antioxidants to crops.

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  • How to harvest water from clouds of fog

    Kat Lonsdorf Claire Harbage

    October 06, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    As the drought in Kenya drags on, people are collecting water from the air by using plastic to funnel fog off of trees into buckets at night or a machine that pulls water from hot, moisture-filled air like a dehumidifier would.

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  • Making cities 'spongy' could help fight flooding — by steering the water underground

    John Ruwitch

    October 03, 2023 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: China, Jinhua

    The concept of “sponge cities” is taking off as a way to prevent flooding. This style of urban design focuses on creating environments that absorb more water with plants and open ground as opposed to pipes and concrete.

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  • La primera planta de tratamiento de aguas con microalgas

    Florencia Luján

    September 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    Una iniciativa público-privada impulsada por la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FAUBA), busca tratar aguas residuales urbanas y producir biofertilizantes a partir de organismos que se utilizan para suplementos dietarios humanos y animales.

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  • The ancient Sri Lankan 'tank cascades' tackling drought

    Zinara Rathnayake

    September 26, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Maeliya

    A hydraulic network of man-made water tanks built 2,000 years ago, called an ellangawa, collects rainwater that locals in Maeliya, Sri Lanka, can release during the dry season to support the rice crop and recharge the groundwater.

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  • How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

    Bowman Leigh

    September 21, 2023 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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  • The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

    Peter Yeung Melanie Pérez Arias

    September 18, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Peru

    El Movimiento Peruanos sin Agua is leading an initiative to install fog catchers in communities across Peru that lack access to water as they continue to face a drought. The nonprofit provides communities with a netted device, a network of tubes, and storage containers that they put together to harvest water from fog.

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  • Why Iowa farmers are turning to irrigation during drought. And why some are not.

    Brittney J. Miller

    September 15, 2023 |

    The Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Farmers in Iowa are slowly turning to irrigation systems instead of relying solely on rain to combat more frequent droughts.

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