Jobs for girls

How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes

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The World Cup of football solutions

How football can solve problems off the pitch

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The body suit that stops muscle spasms

Clever physiotherapy tools to help people get moving

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Sleep solutions

Innovative ways to help people get a better night’s rest

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Board games fixing the world

Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?

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Grannies fixing the world

The projects around the world using the influence of grandmothers to help improve lives

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Micro-homes and sobercoins

The tiny houses helping homeless people to get off the streets

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Fighting the megadrought

How Chile has found ingenious ways of finding and using water

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Bringing dead languages back to life

How do you revive a language with no living speakers?

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Plants fighting pollution

Meet the plants that clear up oil spills and provide clean water

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The healing power of forests

Meet the people using forests to help improve mental health.

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Turning waste into power

How old food and hot computers are being used to provide new sources of energy

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The ring that could help save women’s lives

Has a tiny silicon ring to protect women from HIV infection worked as a solution?

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Sea cucumbers fixing the world

How the humble sea cucumber and its poo is helping coral reefs

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Challenging attitudes to disability

The silent cafe and VR game trying to make life better for people with disabilities

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Endometriosis: The search for solutions

Has Hungary found a better way of treating endometriosis?

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Stopping harassment on public transport

We look at initiatives around the world aiming to make commuting safer.

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The people fixing childcare

How mobile childcare is helping low-paid workers

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Sports fan solutions

How German “fan projects” are stopping young supporters being seduced by far-right groups

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Kangaroo care for premature babies

The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives

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The hidden powers of bacteria

How bacteria can help the planet and make us healthy

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Fighting corruption in schools

A new generation making sure schools are getting the government funds they are promised

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Menopause mentors

How women are using cafes, apps and oils to make menopause a little easier

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Making peace with nature

How conservation can be used for peacebuilding

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Dementia friendly neighbourhoods

How to design a neighbourhood with older people in mind

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Helping elephants and humans get along

How to prevent conflict between people and animals

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What to do with an empty mall?

The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices

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Catching the ‘bike bus’

How kids are finding safety in numbers on their cycle to school

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Palm oil that’s better for wildlife

How a palm oil plantation is helping nature to thrive in Borneo

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Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete

The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings

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Fighting the heat

Meet the innovators making our super-heated cities liveable

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The power of a backstory

How mini-biographies are helping elderly patients connect with their carers

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The game that fixes cities

How cryptocurrency and blockchain are being used to try and solve some everyday problems

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Eating invasive species

When plants and animals invade new areas, can we 'eat them to beat them'?

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The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers

How Dutch inventors are removing plastic from rivers with a ‘net’ made from bubbles

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Surprising solar

New ways of getting energy from the sun

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Female farmers fighting sexism

How women are fighting back against discrimination in agriculture

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Genetic problem-solving

From fast-growing food to life-saving rice, is genetic modification a good solution?

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Shockwaves for the heart

An Austrian surgeon has a radical new treatment for heart disease

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Surviving earthquakes

From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects trying to make earthquakes less deadly

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Coconuts fixing the world

How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest

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AI for good

How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives

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Stopping suicide

How volunteers are helping people in crisis in Limerick, Ireland

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Disaster zone innovators

Hospital trains and robot medics

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Training heroin users to save their friends

How drug users in Glasgow are being trained to treat people who have overdosed

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Sharing the river

How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water

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Fighting period poverty

How hand-stitched pads are trying to make women’s lives better

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The plastic eaters

The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.

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Building a clinic to save a forest

How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo

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The country tackling loneliness

How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel

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Making landfill less awful

The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture

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Fake birds and other stories

This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.

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Keeping the Amazon standing

Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees

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Rewilding Earth

How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems

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Overcoming stigma

The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.

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Making life easier for older people

We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.

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Clever ways to get kids learning

We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.

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Speaking up at work

We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.

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Magic mushrooms and mental health

Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?

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Greener ways to feed the world

How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger

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The power of music

Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.

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How literacy can change a life

How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read

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Redefining luxury fashion

The luxury products that love the planet

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Restoring California's underwater forests

We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California

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