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All stories (36)
- If children can't reach school, the school comes by boat · Bangladesh
- Replanting a hurricane-flattened reef off southern Belize · Belize
- The village women who guarded their river for 503 days · Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Families in Brazil's dry north-east build their own rainwater tanks · Brazil
- Protecting springs and planting trees in Cameroon's highlands · Cameroon
- A young Anishinaabe water protector speaks up for clean water · Canada
- An Arctic First Nation switches off its diesel generators for summer · Canada
- Bogotá's waste pickers organise to be paid for recycling · Colombia
- Waorani communities map their forest and win a court case to keep oil out · Ecuador
- Nile fishers in Cairo paid to bring back plastic as well as fish · Egypt
- The Tigray village that chose to stay and restore its land · Ethiopia
- Students in Ghana who started building bicycles from bamboo · Ghana
- A village inside a Maya ruin looks after its own forest · Guatemala
- Turning household toilet waste into compost in northern Haiti · Haiti
- A lawyer and his neighbour start clearing a Mumbai beach · India
- Slowing meltwater to store ice for spring sowing in Ladakh · India
- The teenager who began planting bamboo on a bare sandbar · India
- Two schoolgirls ask Bali to say goodbye to plastic bags · Indonesia
- A mountain town that sorts its rubbish into 45 categories · Japan
- A backyard lab that turns Nairobi's plastic into paving stones · Kenya
- A retired teacher and her neighbours sorted their village's rubbish themselves · Lebanon
- A teenager's scrap-metal windmill in rural Malawi · Malawi
- Mayan beekeepers take the fight for their honey to Mexico's Supreme Court · Mexico
- Catching fog to bring water to mountain villages in south-west Morocco · Morocco
- The Amsterdam meet-up that made repair social again · Netherlands
- Niger's farmers who let the trees grow back · Niger
- Cargo bikes and reward points for recycling in Lagos · Nigeria
- Freezing winter streams into ice towers to water spring fields · Pakistan
- Catching fog for water above Lima's hillside settlements · Peru
- Small-scale fishers who replanted their own mangroves · Philippines
- A Casamance farmer who organised women around seeds and soil · Senegal
- The women of N'jau who turned plastic bags into purses · The Gambia
- The village that turned turtle poaching into turtle protection · Trinidad and Tobago
- Birthday Trees: a Ugandan teenager's way to replant forests · Uganda
- Planting vegetables in public spaces across a Pennine town · United Kingdom
- Law students in Vanuatu take climate change to the World Court · Vanuatu