People Fixing the World

If you had a rare disease and the only drug that could help you suddenly shot up in price how would you feel? What if yo... Read more

Should we reuse and refill plastic packaging to limit the amount being thrown away? Nick Holland looks at different way... Read more

Loneliness and isolation can trigger a host of other problems, particularly for our health. But a town in Somerset, in t... Read more

In 1998, 42% of Iceland’s 15 and 16 year-olds reported that they had got drunk in the past 30 days. By 2016, though, thi... Read more

Using lasers or asteroids to move our planet away from the sun may sound extreme, but a few scientists have come up with... Read more

Imagine a grocery shop selling all your basic goods at a discounted price… and if you buy enough you also get free healt... Read more

You’re standing on a stage, blinded by a spotlight trained on your face, knees weak, hands sweaty. Someone from the aud... Read more

Providing food for seven billion people is fraught with difficulty. Fertilising vast tracts of land and flying fresh veg... Read more

People can’t resist a prize, especially when there’s money to go with a medal, and for hundreds of years that basic huma... Read more

The city of Vaasa in western Finland has built a reputation as a centre of innovation, where energy companies are workin... Read more

Period poverty affects girls and women across the world who can’t afford to buy sanitary pads or tampons each month. So ... Read more

Bananas are one of the most popular fruits on the planet - more than 100 million tonnes of them are eaten every year. Bu... Read more

Every year, it’s estimated that nearly 400 million people around the world are infected with dengue fever, a potentially... Read more

The average dog produces about 124kg of poo every year, but not all of that gets picked up and disposed of properly. So ... Read more

Could bilingual schools help bring peace to a seemingly intractable conflict? In Israel, the school you’ll go to is larg... Read more

Billions of tonnes of goods are moved by lorry every year – everything from food and clothes to building materials, elec... Read more

Your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest while out on the high street are slim. It's estimated survival rates decrease... Read more

Up to 90% of the world’s coral could be dead by 2050, according to some estimates, unless we take radical action.Tacklin... Read more

By its very nature, volunteering means you don’t get paid. But what if there was a way to compensate volunteers that als... Read more