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U.S. East Coast adopts 'living shorelines' approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner

April 24, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: United States, Blue Hill, Maine

Contractors and homeowners in Maine are installing living shorelines to deal with the effects of rising sea levels and stronger storms caused by climate change. As opposed to concrete jetties and breakwaters, living shorelines use natural materials like logs, salt-tolerant plants, and coconut fiber to protect the land from erosion and create valuable habitat for local animals.

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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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Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling

April 16, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Barbados

Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean are collecting harmful sargassum seaweed that washes up on the beaches and turning it into agricultural products that reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. Red Diamond Compost, for example, uses growth-stimulating hormones from the seaweed to create a soil additive that improves plants’ ability to absorb nutrients.

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How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

Lydia DePillis

April 04, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Benjamin Goldfarb

March 26, 2024 |

Hakai Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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Florida is paying bounty hunters to control its python population

Lucy Sherriff

March 19, 2024 |

BBC |

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Response Location: United States, Florida

Python removal agents with South Florida’s Water Management District hunt the invasive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades to prevent the snakes from continuing to destroy the ecosystem. Since launching the program in 2017, agents have removed 8,565 pythons across the state.

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Rewilding Japan With Clearings in the Forest and Crowdfunding Campaigns

James Whitlow Delano

March 17, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: Japan

Conservationists in Japan are rewilding the country’s vast monoculture plantation forests to restore biodiversity and allow the ecosystem to return to its natural state, deciduous forest. They are doing so by turning the tree plantations into meadows and buying plots of land with private donations to plant native trees on.

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How Southern Africa's Elephants Bounced Back

Veronika Perková

March 05, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe

The once-declining elephant population at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is now stable because the rangers use the core-buffer model to keep them safe. To ensure they have enough room to live comfortably, the elephants are allowed to wander far into less-protected zones. But the park has a well-protected core patrolled by rangers that elephants can return to when they feel threatened.

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Why Europe is dismantling its dams

Lucrezia Lozza

March 05, 2024 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Finland

Researchers and conservationists in European countries like Finland are buying obsolete dams and dismantling them to allow river ecosystems to recover and fish to travel freely.

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Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman

March 04, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, United States

Native tribes and First Nations in the Great Lakes Region are successfully reviving wild rice, a native crop that is deemed “extremely vulnerable” to climate change and lost much of its wetland habitat. The tribes’ restoration projects involve seeding lakebeds, monitoring water levels and quality, educating others on the importance of the crop, and harvesting it by hand.

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