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How do you get the world to pay attention to a problem it thinks it's already solved? Around a billion children are exposed to dangerous levels of lead. It can be hiding in cookware, spices and cosmetics, or released through industries like battery recycling. For a child, exposure can mean losing up to six IQ points - irreversible damage that, multiplied across hundreds of millions of children, be...

What if we could catch the next pandemic before it starts? For most of human history, we’ve discovered outbreaks after people start getting sick. But what if we could spot a dangerous virus as it emerges, track it as it spreads and give health workers the information they need to stop it - in real time? Meet Dr Pardis Sabeti, geneticist, disease hunter and professor at Harvard University. Pardis h...

What if the knowledge we need most for the future is something we’ve spent centuries forgetting? Meet Victor Steffensen, Tagalaka man, author, filmmaker, musician and co-founder of the Living Knowledge Network. For decades, Victor has worked with Indigenous communities in Australia and around the world to revive traditional ways of reading and caring for Country. His new book, The Knowledge , asks...

Five years ago, the Taliban banned girls from the classroom. One school refused to stop teaching.   In August 2021, as the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the staff and students of SOLA, the country’s first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, managed to escape to Rwanda, where they established a temporary campus to continue classes.     Meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh, co-founder of SOL...

The story of farming has always been one of adaptation. The next chapter may be its most one important yet. In this special episode of Fix The News , we bring together two conversations exploring one of the defining questions of our time: how do we feed a growing world without destroying the planet that we depend on? Meet Professor Rattan Lal , one of the world's leading soil scientists and a Worl...

Since October 2023, much of the world's attention has been focused on the destruction in Gaza. This conversation is about something we hear much less about: rebuilding. Meet Tala and Farah Mousa, two teenage sisters from Gaza and winners of The Earth Prize Middle East , one of the world's leading environmental competitions for teenagers. Their project , Build Hope is recycling the enormous volumes...

Antarctica isn't just a climate story.   For more than 65 years, Antarctica has been governed by one of the most remarkable international agreements ever created. At the height of the Cold War, countries with competing territorial claims agreed to set conflict aside and dedicate an entire continent to peace, science and environmental protection. Meet Claire Christian, Executive Director of the Ant...

What happens when you redesign education around the people who have been left behind? Meet Alice Achan - social worker, educator and founder of the Te-Kworo Foundation, a boarding school in Northern Uganda that is helping young mothers and vulnerable girls rebuild their lives. What started as a small support group during the aftermath of war has grown into one of the most remarkable educational mo...

What can Colombia teach us about what's still possible? Meet Juan Manuel Santos - former President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Chair of The Elders - who helped negotiate an end to one of the longest-running armed conflicts in modern history. Under his leadership, Colombia signed a peace agreement with FARC, bringing an end to a conflict that had shaped the country for over 60 years...

The battle to restore the Klamath River lasted generations. When the dams finally came down, salmon returned within three days - far faster than scientists expected, marking a turning point for Indigenous rights, ecological restoration and cultural survival.   Meet Amy Bowers Cordalis - attorney, activist and member of the Yurok Tribe - who helped lead one of the most significant river restoration...

Gus and Amy recently attended Women Deliver 2026 – the world’s largest global conference on gender equality. Beyond reporting on the sessions, it was an opportunity to sit down with the people driving social change at every level. From feminist leaders in the Pacific to youth-led innovation, policymakers, and evolving conversations about the role of men in the fight for gender equality, Women Deli...

What happens when two solutions-focused news platforms compare notes on how to change the narrative of the world? Meet Myra Anubi - BBC journalist and host of People Fixing the World - who, like Fix The News, is part of a growing movement to challenge the doom and gloom by reporting on what’s working. Through stories of climate innovation, global health breakthroughs and grassroots problem-solving...

This week’s headlines include – a historic shift in the global energy transition as renewables meet all new electricity demand; Africa’s measles vaccination drive saving 19.5 million lives; a breakthrough gene therapy restoring hearing; major global progress on poverty reduction and mental health; expanded access to education in Chicago; and  two different comeback stories for seagrass ecosystems...

What happens when two friends in rural Australia take on the global hunger crisis? Meet Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi - a third-generation farmer and a multicultural advisor from Leeton, NSW - who turned a single conversation into Grain of Hope: a grassroots initiative shipping Australian wheat to Sudan, where millions face displacement and acute malnutrition.(We’ve linked ways to support their work...

This week’s headlines include – a global milestone in ocean protection; Brazil’s new deforestation crackdown using satellite monitoring; major gains in women’s rights and maternal health; record renewable energy growth in the US and Europe; and a groundbreaking IVF breakthrough that could change fertility treatment. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' o...

This week’s headlines include – Yes, we can end TB; the biggest expansion of education in human history; LGBTQ rights gaining ground; whales staging a dramatic comeback in Antarctic waters; a global energy shift; and the particle discovery that was not thought possible.   NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you l...

Big News: Hope Is A Verb is becoming Fix The News Podcast. This is our final episode as Hope Is A Verb  - but it's not the end of these conversations. Over 52 episodes, we’ve met the people who are changing the world through conservation, education, healthcare, social reform and grassroots action. Each one has expanded our sense of what’s possible. Now, it’s time to evolve. From our next episode,...

This week’s headlines include – DNA building blocks discovered on asteroids; global child mortality down 60%; China consolidates environmental laws; monarch butterflies rebound in Mexico; women in politics rise across Africa; and AI supporting dementia care. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you look out for th...

This week's headlines include – Nigeria’s record investment in basic education; Indigenous-led land restoration across the United States; cities cutting air pollution by up to 45%; rhinos returning to the DRC; and a breakthrough stem cell treatment offering new hope for Parkinson’s. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make...

This week’s headlines include – India launches the world’s largest HPV vaccination campaign; school meal programmes across Europe reach 25 million children; solar becomes the fastest-growing energy source in history; EV giant BYD unveils a nine-minute charging system; river otters make a comeback in the Great Lakes and southern Africa launches its first cross-border birding route. NewsFix is broug...

This week’s headlines include: Chile eliminates leprosy; the malaria vaccine is working in Nigeria fall after a vaccine rollout; Croatia clears its last landmines; renewable energy surges; recovery in Kazakhstan’s Aral region; wildlife comebacks from the Galápagos to Central Asia; and a breakthrough that could finally bring spider silk into mass production. NewsFix is brought to you by ⁠Fix The Ne...

This week's roundup of good news includes – Gaza aid; Amazon deforestation; Ukraine energy; new blood test for cancer; world's largest marine reserve in Canada; Bonobo imagination study.   NewsFix is brought to you by ⁠Fix The News⁠ . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, ⁠Hear That! ⁠ To get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com

This week's headlines include – Solar power could supercharge farming; universal healthcarein Armenia; more good news for the Amazon; poorer economies are closing the gap; poverty reduction in Jamaica and personhood for Whales in the Pacific.  NewsFix is brought to you by ⁠Fix TheNews⁠ . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, ⁠Hear That! ⁠ Get in touch with the team: amy@fixthenews.com

This week's headlines include – How Mexico is changing its narrative on poverty; good newsfor the High Seas and the Amazon; a glimmer in Gaza; electrified Porsches claim a victory;  Poland’s step in the right direction for same sex-couples and is it really puppies-v-babies?     NewsFix is brought to you by ⁠Fix The News⁠ . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, ⁠Hear That! ⁠ If you want to get in touch with...

Welcome back to NewsFix and our first edition for 2026. This week's headlines include – a counterpoint to the Middle East, astonishing progress on cancer, a golden age of vaccines, murder and homicide rates decline in the world’s leading cities, coal bites the dust (again)  and Love Island for lizards?  NewsFix is brought to you by ⁠Fix TheNews⁠ . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, ⁠Hear That! ⁠ Ifyou wa...