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    How the Colorado River Impacts Indigenous Water Rights

    Grist Oct 6, 2021

    As a child, Preston J. Arrow-weed lived near a stretch of the Colorado River that traced a wide, sweeping curve through the Fort Yuma-Quechan Reservation, which straddles the border of…

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    Discussing Climate Change in Rural America

    Harvest Public Media

    Rural communities are some of the most politically disenfranchised when it comes to climate policy, and last year’s National Climate Change Report showed they’re also among the most at risk…

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    Environmental Restoration Innovation Will Impact Climate Change

    Fast Company

    In Myanmar, one startup is using drones to quickly replant a massive mangrove forest. In the U.S., a third startup is replanting abandoned farmland with pongamia, a type of tree that needs little…

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    Why We Need to Start Using an Equity Lens for Climate Change Solutions [Video]

    RAND Corporation Oct 5, 2021

    I tend to think of climate change as fundamentally being an issue of equity, and there’s two big arenas where I think climate change and equity really intersect. So the…

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    The Economic and Environmental Cost of Marine Heatwaves

    Environmental News Network Oct 5, 2021

    Extremely hot years will wipe out hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish available for catch in a country’s waters in this century, on top of projected decreases to fish…

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    Climate Change Is Making Monsoons in the US Southwest More Extreme and Erratic

    The Conversation Oct 5, 2021

    If you’ve never lived in or visited the U.S. Southwest, you might picture it as a desert that is always hot and dry. But this region experiences a monsoon in…

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    Puerto Rico Has a Chance to Build a Clean Energy Grid – But FEMA Plans to Spend $9.4 Billion on Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

    The Conversation Oct 5, 2021

    The Biden Administration has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help Puerto Rico transition to a greener and more resilient energy future, but it’s on the verge of making a multibillion-dollar mistake.…

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    How Soil Health Practices Benefit Farmers

    GreenBiz

    What’s the question you are most frequently asked when trying to set up a new sustainability initiative? I bet “how much will it cost?” is a leading contender. It’s no…

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    How Donors Can Push Climate Action Forward

    The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI) Oct 5, 2021

    During the global financial crisis of ‘08-’09, those in power pushed for system protection, system maintenance and system recovery when what was urgently needed then and even more urgently needed…

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    Building a Sense of Community Through Neighborhood Orchards

    Sharable Oct 4, 2021

    Today, community gardens can be found in towns across Croatia, and Varaždin is riding that wave of success with a new project: a community orchard with about 200 pear and…

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    Coral Nurseries Can Shelter Threatened Species

    Futurity

    This bit of good news came from the final-year project of Crystle Wee, who earned a bachelor of environmental studies from the National University of Singapore. She worked on the…

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    Considering Environmental Impact in Every Funding Decision

    Think NPC

    There is an inextricable relationship between social issues and environmental ones. From land lost to flooding and erosion to poisonous air destroying our quality of life, the knock-on effects of…

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