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Back to SearchMaking landfill less awful
Landfill sites are an icon of our wasteful society and the harm we cause to Planet Earth.
But around the world, people are trying to make these filthy…
2 years, 7 months ago
The country tackling loneliness
Loneliness affects millions of people around the world and can have a significant impact on our mental and physical health.
In the Netherlands, they a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Building a clinic to save a forest
How do you stop people chopping down precious rainforest? In the Indonesian part of Borneo, researchers for a conservation charity discovered that lo…
2 years, 8 months ago
The plastic eaters
Every year the world produces 400 million tonnes of plastic – the same weight as all the humans on earth.
Only a small proportion of this is recycled,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Fighting period poverty
Millions of women around the world lack access to safe and hygienic menstrual products. But there are people trying to change that.
We meet the Britis…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sharing the river
In the farming community of Los Negros in rural Bolivia, the river is their life and livelihood. So when that river started to dry up, it made life v…
2 years, 8 months ago
Training heroin users to save their friends
Heroin users in Scotland are being trained to spot when someone is about to overdose and to step in and help.
The training – which includes lessons on…
2 years, 9 months ago
Disaster zone innovators
In the midst of a crisis, sometimes the solution you need isn’t obvious. Today we meet the inventors who found fascinating fixes amid the chaos and d…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sea cucumbers fixing the world
Meet the oceans’ unsung hero - the humble sea cucumber. An animal in the same family as starfish that looks like a lumpy sausage and lives on the oce…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stopping suicide
More than 400 people in Ireland took their own lives in 2022. In Limerick, helicopters are often heard flying above the city in search of missing peo…
2 years, 9 months ago