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Swimming upstream
20,000: That’s how many chinook salmon have migrated up the Klamath River, which flows through southern Oregon and northern California, in the two years since four dams were removed. This impressive number comes from a new study that Inside Climate News reported on in a story shared by Contributing Editor Michaela Haas.
Of course, challenges remain, including questions over water allotments and the river’s two remaining dams, but the return of fall-run salmon is a clear sign of progress. “The biological response has been much faster than I, and most of us, expected,” Damon Goodman, lead author of the study, told Inside Climate News.
Michaela says:
Great to learn that the dam removal is working.
Planning together
In Edo state, Nigeria, family planning services are recognizing the need to get more men involved, as NewsVertex reports in a story that caught Contributing Editor Geetanjali Krishna’s attention. Historically, reproductive health clinics have been considered spaces for women. Now, the state is working to make family planning an inclusive process and taking health education beyond the clinic by “engaging men in places where they live, work and exercise influence within their communities.”
Geetanjali says:
I found the story fascinating because in India, many family planning programs are not as effective as they should be because the buy-in from men is low.
What else we’re reading
California’s Ambitious Plan for Textile Waste — shared by Michaela Haas from the New York Times
Ganesh idols that grow after immersion — shared by Geetanjali Krishna from The Hindu
Brooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft library — shared by Editorial Director Rebecca Worby from Gothamist
In other news…
Last week in our New York City office, as the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approached, we found ourselves talking about what we remembered: the darkness, the sadness — and the ways people cared for one another. Our managing director, Rebecca Faulkner, is an award-winning poet and proud transplant to New York who was working in Downtown Manhattan day. We asked her to share her memories of building community after 9/11. You can read her essay here.
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