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Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?
An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression
Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?
The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere
Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation
In 2001 Portugal decriminalised personal drug use to tackle a heroin crisis.
Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
Residents turn detective to fight crime
Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to cut crime
The school that puts wellbeing first
One primary school has found a way to deliver therapy to about 10% of its students
Trieste’s mental health ‘revolution’
How Italy’s radical decision to close its mental asylums shaped the way we think today
Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
Solar-powered lamps are giving girls independence and stopping them becoming child brides
A simple way to help a relative if they’re arrested
A group in California is teaching families how to help loved ones charged with crimes
Putting a price on carbon
How to increase the cost of causing climate change
Bangladesh’s biker girls
The motorbike taxi app where the drivers and engers are all women.
The concrete cleaners
Making cement that locks in carbon dioxide instead of releasing it into the atmosphere
Oysters to the rescue
The humble oyster is helping to keep the oceans clean and protect shorelines
A new way to detect an invisible poison in water
Scientists hope a new test will save millions from drinking arsenic in their water
Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’
How a doctor in Colombia changed the way cities monitor and prevent violence
The snakebite squad
A team in Kenya has introduced motorbike ambulances for people bitten by snakes
Spotting the sound of a cardiac arrest
Copenhagen is experimenting with a new way of analysing emergency calls
Turning waste into energy
Instead of sending all our waste to landfill, some companies are using it to make energy
Shopping for a better life
How a grocery store is bringing health care to people who can’t usually afford it
The town rethinking the future of energy
Energy companies have come together in Finland to tackle climate change
Gaming for good
Gamers are helping scientists to analyse research and develop new drugs
The future of freight
Deg eco-friendly lorries to make cleaner, greener deliveries
How to save the banana
The banana is under threat from a deadly disease. These people are trying to save it.
How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods
The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities
Stopping abuse with protection dogs
Women who have left abusive partners are learning how to train their own protection dogs
Saving the World’s Ice
Silica beads and whiter clouds - ideas to stop the world’s ice melting
Turning kids into entrepreneurs
Children in Uganda are running their own businesses thanks to special classes in school
Convicting more rapists
Rapists often get away without being convicted – South Africa thinks it has an answer
Making your deliveries greener
Four clever ways to reduce carbon emissions from deliveries
Checking in with the problem solvers
Stopping forest fires with goats and more – an update on projects we’ve visited before
