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Saving water at a time of scarcity
We look at solutions for conserving and reusing water
Making tourism work for everyone
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
Africa's best new innovators
Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
Rethinking mental health
We look at innovative ways to improve mental health care in the US and Denmark
Protecting wildlife from human activity
We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour
Olympic-sized solutions
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people’s lives for the better.
Greener ways to keep cool
As the planet warms, how can we keep cool in a climate friendly way?
Switching off our smartphones
How can we all spend less time on our phones?
The medicines dropping from the sky
The HIV drugs being delivered by drones.
Hopping aboard the hospital train
How trains - and trucks - are taking healthcare into the communities that need it most
The power of native knowledge
How communities in Peru and Niger are tapping local knowledge for sustainable solutions
Saving Britain's sea life
We look at efforts being made to tackle the challenges of overfishing and climate change
Keeping men healthy
The barbers providing mental health and the truckers getting help at the roadside
The pioneering TV news service
Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place
Fixing elections - for the better
2024 has been a big year for elections. But how can we make sure people can vote safely?
The jails where they do things differently
The prison in Philadelphia that's adopted a Scandinavian model of custody
The race to save Madagascar's biodiversity
How communities are fighting to protect forests and marine life
A wheelchair that learns
The wheelchair that uses AI and how clothes can help communicate feelings
Sorting extreme waste
Removing waste from Everest and defunct satellites from space.
Cleaning up India's streets
We look at two projects that turn plastic and cigarette butt waste into everyday products
Reducing gun violence
We look at projects trying to cut down deaths and injuries from firearms
The cows fighting wildfires
How animals and space tech are helping tackle a growing problem.
Our favourite solutions
Myra Anubi and the team chat about their favourite projects of the last 12 months.
Restoring nature for all
We visit a major project in the north of England that is restoring a damaged landscape
Improving our eyesight
We visit a coffee plantation in India to see how the sight of workers is being improved
Making money go further
How savings and credit groups and a cooking at home scheme are helping with money issues
How to have better sex
Solutions to help people enjoy sex more
The artificial limbs bringing hope in Gaza
How cutting-edge prosthetic limbs are helping in Gaza and beyond.
Renewable kids on the block
We look at new and surprising ways to get clean energy - from the earth, ocean and sun
Fishing trash from our oceans
Tackling the millions of tonnes of waste being washed out to sea every year
Helping the children of sex workers
The youth club in Kolkata's red light districts that is making a difference
