Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOur favourite climate solutions
In a special edition, we join forces with fellow BBC podcast The Climate Question to share some of our favourite ways of fighting the impacts of clim…
1 year, 11 months ago
Switching off our smartphones
Concerns are growing about the effects of smartphones on both adults and children, so we're looking at ways to reduce our dependence on these ubiquit…
2 years ago
Greener ways to keep cool
Climate change is affecting us all. When the temperature goes up, many of us reach for the air conditioning. But that in itself is making things wors…
2 years ago
Olympic-sized solutions
As athletes from around the world strive for glory at the Paris Olympics, we look at how sport has a unique ability to change people’s lives for the …
2 years ago
Protecting wildlife from human activity
From the way we catch food, to how we generate energy, human activity inevitably impacts on wildlife and the environment in unintended ways. So this …
2 years ago
Rethinking mental health
In the US, police officers spend about a fifth of their time responding to mental health crises. This is something they are often not trained for, an…
2 years, 1 month ago
Africa's best new innovators
In a special programme, Myra Anubi is in Nairobi, Kenya at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation which rewards the best new innova…
2 years, 1 month ago
Making tourism work for everyone
Tourism brings money and opportunities to communities around the world, but it brings risks too. Sometimes an influx of tourists changes a place, dam…
2 years, 1 month ago
Saving water at a time of scarcity
Just over a quarter of people on the planet live in water stressed countries. And our increasing demands for water as well as climate change is putti…
2 years, 1 month ago
What to do with an empty mall?
US shopping malls, once a mainstay of American life, are in decline. Forty malls have closed since 2020, while more than 230 department stores have c…
2 years, 2 months ago