When a problem becomes an opportunity….
When billionaire Elon Musk gleefully put USAID in the woodchipper, Village Health Works in Burundi was down to its last 20 packets of Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food, a peanut butter-based porridge used…
Bringing an English river back to life
Ancient maps and modern technology have brought Northumberland’s River Breamish back to life and reconnected it to its flood plains, after several hundred years of being restrained into a…
Medical totems bring virtual care to remote Amazon
Even in the most remote parts of the Amazon, telemedicine has been making it possible to offer remote lung, heart and eye exams. Now remote diagnostics has taken a…
‘Free stores” offer an alternative to spending money
Americans spend more money in December than in any other month, and create 5.8 million tons of additional waste. Gift returns peak in the first week of January, with…
The women celebrated by tunnel boring machines
I was working on a story about the new Elizabeth line in London and how it helped rebuild a wetland in Essex when I became fascinated that the tunnel boring machines were all named after…
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A promise made, a promise kept
This article was written by Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and published on their website on 21 November 2025 “In December 2022 Gavi set an ambitious target of reaching 86 million girls…
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Geothermal will heat Regina’s new aquatic facility
Regina’s new Indoor Aquatic Facility, which officially broke ground in August 2025, will be heated using deep geothermal energy, making it sustainable and nearly emissions-free. It is not new technology but it t is something…
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Filling an ecological niche in the Highlands
A rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands is taking us back in time, figuratively speaking. It will introduce a herd of long-horned tauros that will fill the ecological role that the aurochs, the wild ancestors…
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