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Resilience

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

Currently there are several efforts to restore mangroves in the island country, as experts recognize the many ecosystem services they provide, including the protection and stabilization of coastlines as human-induced climate change worsens. However, restoration efforts face numerous challenges.

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Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Reliant on its fisheries, Japan has long known the importance of maintaining healthy forest watersheds so as to protect coastal fisheries. It’s a lesson other nations could benefit from as the global environmental crisis worsens.
Solutions

Finding climate fixes in the Boundary Bay marsh

Something as simple as removing driftwood can heal ecosystems and help coastal communities adapt to climate change, say experts.
Politics

Controversial Monterey Bay desalination plant approved

California Coastal Commission voted 8-to-2 despite ecological risks, high costs and a divide between affluent and lower-income communities.
Politics

EPA may try to block Texas seawater desalination plant in Corpus Christi

Citing water quality concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency may refuse to recognize a permit that Texas approved Thursday for a marine desalination plant at the Port of Corpus Christi.
Politics

The Hail Mary hatcheries

As wildfires, droughts, and floods deal a blow to coastal habitats, wild salmon are disappearing from waterways like California’s Russian River. Can conservation hatcheries save endangered runs?
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Companies can soon start paying the Bahamas to store carbon in the ocean

Seagrass beds and mangrove trees in the Bahamas’ crystal-clear waters may soon be drafted into the fight against climate change.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

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Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

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Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

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New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

CLIMATE
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Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

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Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs