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Coastal women in Shyamnagar turn hardship into a force for resilience

In Shyamnagar, women are turning local knowledge and natural resources into livelihoods while challenging gender discrimination and preserving indigenous traditions. Women in Bangladesh’s southwestern coastal Shyamnagar upazila are confronting cyclones, storm surges, severe soil salinity and social discrimination while building livelihoods, leading community initiatives and preserving local traditions. A delegation of development workers from Manikganj, organised by the research and development agency BARCIK, visited several villages in Shyamnagar on Sept 20 to document the lives and struggles of women in the climate-vulnerable area. In Chok Dhumghat village under Ishwaripur Union, Alpana Rani Misti and her husband, Gangadhar Misti, run an integrated farm focused on environmentally friendly agriculture. Their activities include conserving indigenous seed varieties, cultivating vegetables organically, fish farming and producing vermicompost. Alpana Rani also leads the Shapla Women’s Development Committee, which works on social issues in the community. The group recently intervened to prevent the child marriage of a local adolescent, Dipika Rani. Lili Rani Misti, a younger member of the family, has also increased her household’s financial independence while gaining a greater role in family decision-making. In the same village, Gobinda Mondal’s Agroecology Learning Center demonstrates organic farming practices including growing ginger in sacks and cultivating sweet pineapples...

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Mission Blue and IUCN join forces to put coastal communities at the heart of ocean action with the One Ocean Partnership

The collaboration was announced by Dr Sylvia Earle, CEO & Founder of Mission Blue and IUCN Patron of Nature, and Razan Al Mubarak, President of IUCN, during Climate Week NYC 2026. The partnership will bring together IUCN’s network, scientific expertise, partnerships and regenerative seascape approach pioneered under its Great Blue Wall initiative with Mission Blue’s global network of Hope Spots - ocean areas of critical ecological importance championed by local leaders. “There is only one ocean, and every breath we take, every drop of water we drink and every life on Earth depends upon it,” said Dr Sylvia Earle, CEO & Founder of Mission Blue. “Hope Spots show what becomes possible when science, local knowledge and courageous leadership come together. Through this collaboration with IUCN and the One Ocean Partnership, we can give local champions the recognition and support they deserve, create an effective network of action, and turn hope into lasting protection and recovery of the ocean at the scale needed for enduring security for life on Earth, humans very much included.” “Sylvia Earle and Mission Blue have shown the power of local leadership through Hope Spots. Through this partnership, we want to build on that foundation, connecting locally...

theconversation.com

Two native turtles are vying to survive in a coastal Australian river. One doesn't belong there

The Manning River Helmeted turtle (Myuchelys purvisi) might just be Australia’s most beautiful freshwater turtle. With a bright yellow stripe stretching from their nose to the tip of their tail, these striking turtles are hard to miss. The Manning River turtle is found nowhere else on earth except for the few coastal rivers in New South Wales’ Manning River region. Known as Guraa in the Gathang language of the Traditional Custodians of Birpai-Barray, this ancient turtle has a lineage dating back 55 million years. However, this ancient species faces a very modern crisis. The Manning River turtle is listed as endangered and is being pushed towards extinction by the pressures of habitat clearing, the illegal pet trade and invasive predators that prey on adult female turtles and their eggs. But as our new study reveals, this species faces an even more urgent, and perhaps unexpected, threat: another native but locally-introduced turtle. Read more: We identified the 63 animals most likely to go extinct by 2041. We can’t give up on them yet An unexpected threat The Macquarie River turtle (Emydura macquarii), also known as the Murray River turtle, is native to several river systems snaking across Australia. It is also...

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Louisiana begins stocking redfish in its coastal waters. Can it help restore the population?

Out on the far end of New Orleans, the tiny redfish swimming in a tank were unknowingly being readied for a life-altering journey. Water began flowing through a black tube connected to the tank, and out came the thousands of fingerling fish. They exited the tube into the shallows on the edge of the Rigolets, many of them darting toward nearby marsh – their new habitat. “This is conservation history,” said Randy Pausina, who directs the Covington-based Recreational Fisheries Research Institute nonprofit. “This is the first time this is being done in Louisiana. It's a big landmark.” The release of around 10,000 fingerling redfish on Friday morning at Fort Pike was the culmination of a long-developing initiative, which has included similar stocking efforts at other locations along Louisiana’s coast in recent weeks. It is a pilot to test whether stocking can bolster the state’s struggling redfish population and the recreational angling industry that surrounds it, though there have been questions over whether it would be worth the cost and effort on a larger scale. In all, it involved the release of more than 150,000 redfish between 2 ½ and 4 inches in West Cove in southwest Louisiana, Grand Isle and...

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'The Ocean is Catching Up': Why Coastal Homeowners are Spending Big on Small Moves

View guidelines for use of these broadcast-ready news packages. Click here for the full media package BY BEN TRACY, SENIOR CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT ON ASSIGNMENT FOR CLIMATE CENTRAL BUXTON, N.C. — Standing near the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Lat Williams points out into the distance, recalling a neighborhood that no longer exists. "There were three houses over here, and one out here, one right here,” Williams said, gesturing toward the open water. "and our house was right here." In the Buxton neighborhood where Williams and his wife Debbie have lived for nearly two decades, the map has been rewritten in just 12 months. Over the past year, 21 homes along this strip of barrier island have collapsed into the Atlantic as storms and relentless wave action ate away at the sand beneath them. At the height of one surge, five houses went down in a span of just 45 minutes. The house directly on the beachfront went first and set off a domino effect. Williams recalled the moment the ocean took his neighbor's property and then came for his own. "It was devastating to stand there and watch our neighbor’s house bump into...