All the news the headlines missed in 2025. | Continue reading
We see a lot of advancement in those puppies. | Continue reading
“A powerful antidote to despair" | Continue reading
Very sloppy, lots of tongue. | Continue reading
I thought we were making an audio documentary. I didn't realise it was also making us. | Continue reading
It’s a nice feeling when your brain suddenly comes up with an answer. | Continue reading
It produces high-value elements AND restores contaminated soils. | Continue reading
It's not a simulation. | Continue reading
The thing that excites me most is the seaweed. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
The old model is dead. We spent a week watching a new one being born. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Part 1 of our podcast about the malaria vaccine. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
We're making a podcast about the malaria vaccine. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
Hidden stories of progress from around the world. | Continue reading
A letter from our new home | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"The universe is universal." Plus, China's crazy month of solar, synthetic life, Gavi hits its target (despite US sabotage), painkillers from plastic, and good news for tigers in Thailand and turtles in Florida. | Continue reading
The universe is universal." Plus, China's crazy month of solar, synthetic life, Gavi hits its target (despite US sabotage), painkillers from plastic, and good news for tigers in Thailand and turtles in Florida. | Continue reading
Payangko! Plus, the High Seas Treaty inches closer, a ton of new marine protected areas, global child labour is falling, great news on reproductive rights in England and Wales, and for the first time ever - the south pole of the Sun. | Continue reading
Payangko! Plus, the High Seas Treaty inches closer, a ton of new marine protected areas, global child labour is falling, great news on reproductive rights in England and Wales, and for the first time ever - the south pole of the Sun. | Continue reading
Without fanfare, something remarkable has happened. Plus, the largest marine protected area in history, a major breakthrough on HIV, good news for animals in Italy, and artificial intelligence versus black holes. | Continue reading
"Those who waste are kin of Satan." Plus, golden eagles, antimatter, good news on neglected tropical diseases, making poverty history, ratifying the High Seas Treaty, and pumped hydro FTW. | Continue reading
'Houston, those labels aren't in English.' Plus, global suicide rates are down, a massive new ecological corridor in Kyrgyzstan, a quiet victory for LGBTQ rights in Lithuania, and a ton of bad news for the coal industry. | Continue reading
I should never have spoken at TED this year. | Continue reading
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." Plus, the end of one of the world's oldest conflicts, a turning point for China's emissions, some surprising news on mass shootings in the US, Colombia leads the way for indigenous rights, and some nifty engineerin … | Continue reading
Your yoga teacher is gonna love this. Plus, the JWST's most ambitious project yet, good news on the TB vaccine, China transforms its monoculture forests, local ocean protection in Mexico, US oil production set to decline, and amazing health care workers. | Continue reading
New metal band name unlocked. Plus, our latest charity partner, Tanzania's incredible electrification drive, oil majors abandon the playing field, the first Southeast Asian country to ban corporal punishment, and did someone just say LAZERS? | Continue reading
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A remarkable milestone. Plus, the White Helmets return, Uganda defeats Ebola, a massive new national park in Argentina, Europe commits to ending addiction to Russian gas, and more evidence for the healing effects of psychedelics. | Continue reading
He was a 'countercultural blaze of possibility in a dark time.' Plus, a title for our malaria podcast, US cancer death rates down, good news for flamingoes in India and penguins in Argentina, a tipping point for coal in China, and one of the great conservation success stories of … | Continue reading