Surviving earthquakes

From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects trying to make earthquakes less deadly

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Coconuts fixing the world

How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest

• 23 mins

AI for good

How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives

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Stopping suicide

How volunteers are helping people in crisis in Limerick, Ireland

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Disaster zone innovators

Hospital trains and robot medics

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Training heroin users to save their friends

How drug users in Glasgow are being trained to treat people who have overdosed

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Sharing the river

How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water

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Fighting period poverty

How hand-stitched pads are trying to make women’s lives better

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The plastic eaters

The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.

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Building a clinic to save a forest

How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo

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The country tackling loneliness

How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel

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Making landfill less awful

The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture

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Fake birds and other stories

This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.

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Keeping the Amazon standing

Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees

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Rewilding Earth

How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems

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Overcoming stigma

The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.

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Making life easier for older people

We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.

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Clever ways to get kids learning

We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.

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Speaking up at work

We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.

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Magic mushrooms and mental health

Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?

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Greener ways to feed the world

How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger

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The power of music

Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.

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How literacy can change a life

How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read

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Redefining luxury fashion

The luxury products that love the planet

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Restoring California's underwater forests

We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California

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Fighting sexism in society

We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled

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The school run by kids

The Thai school that’s proving a model for Thailand and beyond.

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Living with climate change

We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.

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Solving Mexico City's water crisis

We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.

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Fashion without barriers

Exploring style and beauty for people with disabilities

• 23 mins