334: Mother. Orion. Europe 💪 Ukraine. Vancouver marine life. Asia pivots to solar.

Houston, we're going to need some new superlatives. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 9 days ago

333: School. Toponium. Yes we can end TB. Whale birth. Ampurta.

"We will prove to the world that we can move faster." | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 16 days ago

331: Stardust. Deep sea mining 🚫. Child mortality. Mexico 💖🌈

At the backbone of the world, where the water begins. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 22 days ago

331. African Galapagos. Black Mirror. A truly spectacular drug. Electrification⚡Resilience.

With apologies in advance to anyone reading on the loo. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 1 month ago

How we’re giving in 2026

From stories of progress, to real-world impact. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 1 month ago

330: Girls. Pyramids. Otters. Lenacapivir. The Rivers of Life.

It's been called the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 1 month ago

329: Silica. Oil spills. Croatia's landmines. Aral Sea. Tigers.

If the political mood has darkened, one last data point shines out like a beacon. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 1 month ago

Grain of Hope

How six people in rural Australia are shipping 500 tonnes of wheat to Sudan. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 1 month ago

328: Sea of Possibility. Gaza. Hydrofoil. Wolbachia 🦟. Peak coal?

Three new technologies have made this possible. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 1 month ago

99 Stories of Progress from the Year of the Wood Snake

A backwards glance to fuel our forward gallop. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 2 months ago

327: Bike angels. Sea silk. Initihuasi Seed Bank. US education. Rewilding The Alps.

All hail the undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 2 months ago

326: Dua Leaper. Lisima lya mwono. Tap water 🩵. Alcatraz Wolfzilla.

A silver bullet for creating new life? | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 2 months ago

325: Food forests. Happier US students. India's electrotech fast-track. Care blocks.

We'd like a word with those Doomsday Clock people. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 2 months ago

324: D̶u̶n̶e̶ Wind. Middle Class Mexico. Psychiatric biomarkers? Canadian farmers 💪. Porsche.

We were sitting with our calculator saying, "we can afford that!" | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 2 months ago

323: Iraq 💙. Cancer ⬇️. Nancy Drew. The Golden Age of Vaccines. Oryx.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 3 months ago

The Telemetry

All the news the headlines missed in 2025. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 3 months ago

Good news, delayed

We need to take a moment. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 4 months ago

322: Shinga. Ray of Hope. Alphafold/Miura-ori fold 🧬 💠. Measles ↓.

We see a lot of advancement in those puppies. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 4 months ago

Give the Gift of Fix The News

“A powerful antidote to despair" | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 4 months ago

321: The Kiss. Child poverty ↓. How to rewild. Brain epochs 🧠 🌟

Very sloppy, lots of tongue. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 4 months ago

How we made our podcast about the malaria vaccine

I thought we were making an audio documentary. I didn't realise it was also making us. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 4 months ago

320: Aha! Lost Worlds. Mongolia 💚 Colombia. Tuberculosis 🛑✋. Uninterrupted toolmaking.

It’s a nice feeling when your brain suddenly comes up with an answer. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 4 months ago

319: Electrostate. Good Samaritan. Overfishing, over. X59. The rapture of the nerds.

It produces high-value elements AND restores contaminated soils. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 5 months ago

318: Less grumpy. Czechia bans smacking. Amazon deforestation ⬇️. Milky Way 🤩. Superconducting semiconductors.

It's not a simulation. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 5 months ago

317: The Noperthedron. #foodheroes. The sixth sense. Youth literacy. Don't cut the green crap.

The thing that excites me most is the seaweed. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 5 months ago

316: Hope. Painting with fire. Global homicide rates ↓ Deforestation too. Water from air. Fiji eliminates trachoma.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 5 months ago

315: Shell-shocked. A new era of global health. GenZ ✊🏾 One Piece. Mega-batteries. School is cool.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 6 months ago

The End of Aid

The old model is dead. We spent a week watching a new one being born. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 6 months ago

314: A Stake Through The Cold, Dark Heart of King Coal 🪦♥︎. Western Pacific eliminates rubella. The world feels safer. Robotic ballet.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 6 months ago

313: Duck Stamps. High Seas. A 'miracle' AIDS drug. Dodo 🦤

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 6 months ago

312: The Age of Rewilding. Martians. Babelfish 🐡. Universal blood? Golden monkeys.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

311: No ordinary pilgrims. Cosmic waves 💫. China energy 🤯. Global child poverty. Rewilding in England. Jaguars!

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

A Shot At History, Part 1 - The Stakes

Part 1 of our podcast about the malaria vaccine. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

310: Bipedalism. Rice. US prisons empty out. Fires in the Amazon ⬇️🔥. A very cute marsupial.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

A Shot At History - Trailer

We're making a podcast about the malaria vaccine. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

FTN 309: Colours of the Moon. WASH. Solar in Africa. Childhood leukaemia. African Greys 🦜❤️.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

FTN 308: Five wins on poverty. The Maya Forest. Quantum internet. A reverse Rose Garden. America's non-existent crime wave.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 7 months ago

FTN 307: Solar is liberation. Kenya beats sleeping sickness. MPAs work. Chemosynthetic life & the wood wide web.

Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 8 months ago

Welcome to Fix The News on Substack

A letter from our new home | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 8 months ago

306: The Ancestors Return

They're sending us a message. Plus, Canada's largest ever indigenous conservation deal, Timor Leste eliminates malaria, good news for girls in Egypt, more nails in the coffin for fossil fuels, and how they designed Bluey. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 8 months ago

306: The Ancestors Return

They're sending us a message. Plus, Canada's largest ever indigenous conservation deal, Timor Leste eliminates malaria, good news for girls in Egypt, more nails in the coffin for fossil fuels, and how they designed Bluey. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 8 months ago

305: Climate Justice

Some fights are worth having. Plus, trachoma in retreat, Toronto restores its river, two wonderful re-wilding stories from Europe, and how Ozzy's farewell show became the highest grossing charity concert ever. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 8 months ago

305: Climate Justice

Some fights are worth having. Plus, trachoma in retreat, Toronto restores its river, two wonderful re-wilding stories from Europe, and how Ozzy's farewell show became the highest grossing charity concert ever. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 8 months ago

304: Superprogressive

Reclaiming the value of immersion in an era of compression. Plus, the most hopeful statistic in four decades of writing about the climate, Burundi eliminates trachoma, Sweden goes cage-free, and wild sturgeon spawning again in the Yangtze. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 9 months ago

304: Superprogressive

Reclaiming the value of immersion in an era of compression. Plus, the most hopeful statistic in four decades of writing about the climate, Burundi eliminates trachoma, Sweden goes cage-free, and wild sturgeon spawning again in the Yangtze. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 9 months ago

303: Superwood

Bulletproof, fire-resistant, stronger than steel. Plus, malaria vaccines get cheaper, global electricity access up, European air pollution down, genuine hope for coral reefs, and giant river otters return to Argentina. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 9 months ago

303: Superwood

Bulletproof, fire-resistant, stronger than steel. Plus, malaria vaccines get cheaper, global electricity access up, European air pollution down, genuine hope for coral reefs, and giant river otters return to Argentina. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 9 months ago

Giving Update 2025

Progress isn't a rule, it's contested terrain, fought for daily by millions of people who refuse to give in to despair. | Continue reading


@fixthenews.com | 9 months ago