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As part of the Resilient Coastal Communities Project, she's been working with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and Columbia Climate School's Center for Sustainable Urban Development on a project to address flood risk in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, and she's written about her experience on Medium.
"All areas within New Zealand have a high proportion of coastline to land area, and for my home in the subtropical Far North'a long, narrow peninsula' this is especially true,'" she writes.
"Nature-based solutions, rather than gray infrastructure, are gaining increasing recognition for their potential to provide more sustainable and more affordable long-term adaptation for floods and climate change, while delivering better water quality outcomes."
One of those nature-based solutions she's been impressed with: living reefs.
She writes that she's been able to visit many M'ori communities along New Zealand's coast, "where many indigenous M'ori communities are on the front line of the climate crisis," and see first-hand how they've... Read the Entire ArticleSelected Grant News Headlines
When it comes to sustainability, Entrepreneur says, "it takes more than just lip service."
That's because it takes a "thorough commitment to evaluate every aspect of your operation to develop...more
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Lynne Arriale's new album, Being Human, is all about "people who exemplify Passion, courage, love, curiosity, and other human qualities," the Florida pianist tells Rita Kohn of the Indianapolis...more
Ahmad Al-Mallahi is a professor of agricultural engineering and sensing technologies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and he's spent the past five years developing technology that could...more
When Christa Hayes' kids shut down their public schools in 2020, the Montana math professor started hearing from parents seeking help for their children's schoolwork and wanting to find a way for...more
Kids who learn to play musical instruments are more likely to be successful later in life, according to a new survey out of Australia.
The survey of 115 primary school teachers in South Australia...more
Illinois high school students Noah Campbell, Aarnav Jain,Ruqayah Wafa, and Sadie Warne took home top honors at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science's State Science Exposition last weekend, winning...more
Scientists from around the world are meeting in New York this week to discuss how to harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of the world's biggest problems, the New York Times...more
The Australian state of Queensland is known for its sunshine, wine, and...
psychiatrists? The state is also home to the country's highest suicide rate and the country's longest waiting time to...more
"We strongly believe in a Library that serves every member of our community, and we thank California Humanities for recognizing our talented and diverse Library staff."
Those are the words of...more
In the Amazon, willow bark is used for bark bark, poppy seeds for seeds, and so on.
It's all part of what Brazil's national secretary of bioeconomy calls the country's "knowledge of...more
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