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276: Nauseously optimistic
It's the United States gender reveal! We hope it’s a girl. Plus, an interview with Steven Pinker, global air pollutions deaths fall, EU emissions too, a massive new school feeding program for Kenya, and the Three Body Problem solved.
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276: The regenerative city
Planting the seeds of tomorrow. Plus, Europe's largest ever marine protected area, a black hole triple, good news on tuberculosis, Chinese emissions still on track for a decline, and GLP-1 drugs FTW.
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275: The miraculous resurrection of Notre Dame
Keeping the savoir-faire alive. Plus, elimination of malaria in Egypt, rice fortification for millions in India, the resurrection of the Tasmanian Tiger, the EU sticks to its guns on electric vehicles, and 'orbitronics'.
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274: The beautiful confusion of the first billion years
Knocking on the door of history. Plus, beating cancer, clean energy in the Global South, a new marine sanctuary in California, and parallel parking for rockets.
273: Cathedral thinking
We messed up. Plus, two more diseases eliminated in two countries, great news from the IEA, green transformations in Rio and Seoul, and a new class of shape seen throughout nature.
Millions of little bits
A second report from New York. Plus, a seminal moment in the history of energy, waging war on invasive rodents, a plastic bag ban in California and good news for sea turtles in Greece
What's working
A report from New York. Plus, a miracle in the Middle East, electrifying Africa, global progress against domestic violence, and a cancer moonshot.
All we had to do was create the right conditions
Plus, hydrogen memes, restoring Europe's largest saltwater lagoon, Chinese emissions, electric buses in London, and some good news from the Amazon.
Invisible space bubbles over the pyramids of Giza
Plus, Céline Dion, progress on leprosy, the mirage of shoplifting in the United States, falling suicide rates in Nepal, and Earth rings.
Living Beings
Plus, new clean energy records in Australia, elephants in Nigeria, electric monster trucks, the Atlas of Ungulate Migration, and why solar farms have a superpower beyond clean electricity.
In the blink of an eye
Plus, the latest on our malaria podcast, sanitation in India FTW, London's Ultra Low Emission Zone keeps on delivering, tax collection for billionaires, and great news for migraine sufferers.
I'm 60, I'm ready
Plus, beaver bombing, sodium-ion batteries, debt for nature swaps, and good news on renewables in Portugal, puffins in Maine, and a landmark climate ruling in South Korea.
The Three Sisters
Plus, nickel-accumulating flowers, planetary defence, and good news on poverty in Brazil, tuberculosis in India, and a digital pause for France.
Ritual technology
Plus, the 'lightbulb of the 21st century', sustainable farming in the Netherlands, a huge gift for US national parks, EV company becomes 7th largest carmaker, and some surprising news about clean energy in South Africa.
If it cannot be multiplied, it's not really good
Plus, learning jelly, sapphire transistors, and good news on democracy in Bangladesh, free school meals in Indonesia, and cancer deaths in the United States
Turning light into lightning
Plus, consumption overshoot stabilising, mangrove protection in Ecuador, good news for whales, plummeting fossil gas demand in Europe, a go-ahead for the Sun Cable, and a new methane-spotting satellite.
Abundant harvests, lower prices
Plus, pink buses, blended body aircraft, cleaning up Everest, and good news on global inequality, healthcare in Kenya, mental health for teen girls in the United States, and abortion rules in Poland
Good News on Healthcare in the Americas, Hunger in Brazil and Carbon Emissions in China
Plus, fewer kids dying from air pollution, breastfeeding in Pakistan, some clapbacks on Fox News, spillover benefits from marine protected areas, and a plastic-fighting monk in Bangkok
260: Solid State
Plus, a sea of calm, the quantum greenhouse effect, heavy lift drones, and good news on air pollution and kids, hunger in Brazil, Chinese carbon emissions, and the benefits of marine protected areas.