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The Country That Can Jail You For Using Plastic Bags
In Kenya you can be jailed for four years for carrying a single-use plastic bag.
How to Build a City for an Ageing Population
Japan’s Kashiwa City has redesigned buildings and jobs to adapt to an ageing population
The Banks That Run on Time Instead of Money
How time banks allow people to save and spend their hours
Smart Boats That Sail on a Bed of Bubbles
What’s being done to clean up the shipping industry and make it less polluting?
How 'Buddy Benches' are Making Playtime Less Lonely
Buddy Benches are proving popular in Irish schools
Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?
How a Dutch city is trying to reduce violence by changing the colour of street lights
Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?
A growing network of high-tech schools aims to tackle a ‘crisis’ in African education
The Little Libraries Bringing Books into People’s Homes
Small boxes of books placed across the world are bringing people together
Checking in with the Problem Solvers
We update you on stories from 2018 including a plan to catch junk in space
Does the world need more babies?
Campaigns in countries with low birth rates are trying to get people to have more babies
The Talent Show for Honest People
In the Integrity Idol talent show, it doesn’t matter if you can sing or dance
The Turkish App to Help Autistic Children Learn
Can these games help autistic children get the right education?
The shopping mall where everything is recycled
A shopping mall in Sweden only sells recycled items, thanks to its clever location
How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population
Over the past 10 years, Nepal has almost doubled its population of Bengal tigers
‘No Men Allowed’ – The Gym Getting Women Fit and into Work
A single-sex gym in Turkey is helping women exercise and become entrepreneurs
Predicting suicide
How machine learning could be used to predict who will take their own life
Turning old clothes into new ones
Could dissolving mountains of old clothes help create material for new ones?
Last video messages to help children grieve
Making precious video memories for children
Crossing divides in Cyprus
Could a centre in the buffer zone that divides Cyprus bring two communities together?
The digital detectives tackling child sexual abuse
Meet the online volunteers helping Europol track down child abs and their victims
Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?
How phages – viruses that kill bacteria – are saving lives.
The mums saving each other from a taboo condition
Women who have had surgery for fistula are making sure others get life-changing treatment
The great mosquito swap
Scientists are hoping to stop diseases spreading by changing the mosquito population
DNA tests for dogs to tackle problem poo
US residents fed up with dog mess are using a high-tech solution
The reuse and refill revolution
Should we reuse and refill plastic packaging to limit the amount being thrown away?
The tree detectives tackling illegal logging
Scientists are building a database to help them tell exactly where wood has come from
Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?
The people hoping to use sanitary pad micro-factories and silicone cups to help women
Working Less For The Same Pay
Some companies are cutting the hours their staff work but keeping their pay the same
Reinventing the ranch
Can the cattle ranch be updated to fight climate change?
Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions
We hear what you, our listeners, are doing to tackle the problem of plastic waste.
Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?
An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression
