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  • To Cut Ocean Plastic Pollution, Aquaculture Turns to Renewable Gear

    June 27, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Freeport, Maine

    Ocean Farms Supply makes and sells oyster harvest bags out of biodegradable materials, rather than plastic, to help cut down pollution. The company sells the bags locally but has also distributed them to other regions like Mexico, California, and Florida, so far replacing the use of 14 linear miles of the previously used polypropylene mesh.

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  • Villagers in western Tamil Nadu dislodge polluting charcoal mills after decade-long fight to save groundwater

    June 07, 2022 |

    101 Reporters |

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    Response Location: India, Kangeyam, Tamil Nadu

    After years of protesting, attending public grievance meetings, and appearing as plaintiffs in court cases, the residents of Kangeyam, India, gained enough attention to shut down the charcoal industries that were polluting the groundwater.

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  • How Stony Brook University Scientists Gave Shinnecock Bay a New Life

    June 02, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    After planting clams in Shinnecock Bay in 2012, scientists at Stony Brook University were able to reverse the trends of red tide in the coastal New York waters. The bay restoration project resulted in 400,000 square meters of seagrass regrowth and the local clam population significantly grew.

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  • Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security

    May 31, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Wewoka, Oklahoma

    Indigenous communities are combining traditional knowledge and new technology to improve food production for its people. For example, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma partners with the startup Symbiotic Aquaponic that uses fish and plants in water to grow traditional foods like corn, pole beans, and squash. It can be expensive to get started, but the system uses less water than industrial agriculture and provides key nutrition for members of the tribe.

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  • Saving the Great Lakes, one laundry load at a time

    May 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Parry Sound, Ontario

    A pilot experiment in Canada shows that adding a filter on a washing machine can prevent microfibers from entering the wastewater system and ending up in marine ecosystems. After installing these filters on machines in a community, there was a 41 percent decrease of microfibers in the washing machine liquid waste. This will not keep all microfibers from ending up in the environment, but legislators are working on passing bills requiring manufacturers to get these filters installed on new machines.

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  • Eco-friendly firefighting foam is based on soap

    May 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Japan, Fukuoka

    Shabondama Soap, a company based in Japan, manufactures an eco-friendly foam extinguishing agent that can be used to fight wildfires. After an experiment showed that the shop can put out a fire quickly and with less water, the company started introducing it to other regions of the world including Indonesia and Thailand.

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  • Why a dry Chilean lagoon matters to the future of the Great Salt Lake

    April 22, 2022 |

    KUER Radio |

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    Response Location: Chile

    Burdened by extreme drought, water diversions, and a lack of regulation, Lake Acuelo in Chile dried up. Now, researchers are learning from this slow-moving ecological disaster to help other lakes in trouble, like Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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  • Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

    April 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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  • Can Small Seaweed Farms Help Kelp Scale Up?

    March 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Atlantic Sea Farms strives to create sustainable ocean livelihoods by growing seaweed, which is good for both people and the planet. It's nutritionally dense, provides an extra source of revenue for fishermen, and is environmentally low impact. Ongoing studies also indicate it might absorb carbon dioxide in the ocean and tamp down ocean acidification. In 2018, Atlantic Sea Farms was producing 30,000 wet pounds of seaweed a year but expects a harvest of 1.2 million pounds this year, making it the largest in the U.S.

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  • The frontline of conservation: how Indigenous guardians are reinforcing sovereignty and science on their lands

    March 12, 2022 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    Over many months, the Wuikinuxv Guardian Watchmen in British Columbia, Canada, patrol about 2,000 square kilometers of the coast by boat, and they're doing everything from warding off poachers to participating in scientific studies. Since it’s rare to see government vessels monitoring the area, many Indigenous communities throughout Canada have created these guardian programs as a way to conserve and protect their land.

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