Fix The News
Episodes
NewsFix - Clean Energy Hits Turning Point. 19.5 Million Lives Saved. Seagrass Comeback.
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s headlines include – a historic shift in the global energy transition as renewables meet all new electricity demand; Africa’s measles...
Grain of Hope – How Australian Farmers Are Tackling Global Hunger
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
NewsFix - Ocean Protection Hits 10%. Renewables Surge. A Machine Called Mother.
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s headlines include – a global milestone in ocean protection; Brazil’s new deforestation crackdown using satellite monitoring; major g...
NewsFix - TB Breakthroughs. Toponium. Whale Comeback.
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s headlines include – Yes, we can end TB; the biggest expansion of education in human history; LGBTQ rights gaining ground; whales stagi...
Big News: Hope Is A Verb Is Now Fix The News Podcast
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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....
NewsFix - Stardust. Child Mortality. India.
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s headlines include – DNA building blocks discovered on asteroids; global child mortality down 60%; China consolidates environmental law...
NewsFix - Education Boom. Land Back. Cleaner Air.
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week's headlines include – Nigeria’s record investment in basic education; Indigenous-led land restoration across the United States; cities c...
NewsFix - HPV Vaccines. Solar Power. EV Charging Breakthroughs.
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s headlines include – India launches the world’s largest HPV vaccination campaign; school meal programmes across Europe reach 25 milli...
NewsFix - Croatia's Landmines. Aral Sea. Spider Silk Superpower.
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s headlines include: Chile eliminates leprosy; the malaria vaccine is working in Nigeria fall after a vaccine rollout; Croatia clears its ...
NewsFix - Sea of Possibility. Aid Entering Gaza. Beavers.
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week's roundup of good news includes – Gaza aid; Amazon deforestation; Ukraine energy; new blood test for cancer; world's largest marine reserv...
Bike Angels. Solar Farms. Legal Rights for Whales.
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week's headlines include – Solar power could supercharge farming; universal healthcarein Armenia; more good news for the Amazon; poorer eco...
NewsFix - Middle Class Mexico. California Clean-Streak. Puppy Love.
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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; e...
NewsFix - 'Remarkable' Iraq. Cancer ⬇️. Matchmaking for Lizards.
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to NewsFix and our first edition for 2026. This week's headlines include – a counterpoint to the Middle East, astonishing progress ...
NewsFix - 2025 Roundup
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our final NewsFix for 2025 - we're sneaking it in just before the finish line! In this edition we roundup the stories that changed the ...
NewsFix - Empty Spain. Alphafold. Measles ⬇️
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's headlines include – a medical breakthrough in Gaza; death rates plummet for one of our most contagious viruses; ‘Empty Spain’; A...
NewsFix - The Kiss. Child Poverty ⬇️. Rewilding Keeps Winning.
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's headlines include - major victory against extreme child poverty; rewilding efforts paying off in Scotland, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Ukrai...
Future Council - Change Is Loud
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Future Council, a global youth-led movement that’s empowering young people to help co-design the future. It’s inspired by the documentary ‘...
NewsFix - Aha! Mongolia. Crime Decline.
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hold onto your hats - it's a big week of news including: the science behind Aha moments; top marks for global primary school education; cancer bre...
Bryan Walsh - Solving the Narrative Deficit
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Bryan Walsh, an editorial director at Vox, where he leads Future Perfect – an ambitious solutions journalism project that focuses on the polici...
NewsFix - Global Health Wins. Overfishing. Stair-Climbing Wheelchairs.
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's headlines include: big news for HIV, tuberculosis and Leishmaniasis; China continues emissions decline; surprising drop in youth crime...
Enric Sala - Ocean Time Machine
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Enric Sala, a marine ecologist, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and founder of Pristine Seas – an organisation that has helped create...
Women Moving the World
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Krystal Birungi, Carolina Morgado, Nice Leng’ete and Bhavreen Kandhari – four incredible women who are working on the frontlines of science, ...
NewsFix - Amazon Deforestation. Czechia Bans Smacking. Less Grumpy.
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's headlines include: deforestation in the Amazon takes another plunge; Mexico reduces poverty; Nigeria boosts child health; no more corp...
NewsFix - Literacy Soars. Sixth Sense. Air Pollution.
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our first edition of NewsFix - your weekly dose of good news! On today's episode: global air-pollutiondeaths fall as the 'clean-air...
David Fajgenbaum - The Medicine We Missed
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet David Fajgenbaum, a physician scientist who is saving lives by repurposing existing medications to treat different diseases through his organisat...
UNGA 2025 - The End of Aid?
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two weeks ago, Amy was on the ground in New York during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week. Attending various events, including the Clinton Glob...
A Shot At History, Part 3 - The Jab
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode of the series, we’ll uncover the surprising stories behind the science of the world’s first jab for malaria and how this ‘o...
A Shot At History, Part 2 - The Chain
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rolling out a new vaccine across an entire continent takes an extraordinary chain of people - from the scientists in the labs, to delivery truck drive...
A Shot At History, Part 1 - The Stakes
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases of all time - responsible for more deaths than all of humanity's wars combined. That means that the arriv...
A Shot At History - Trailer
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over a year ago, we decided that we wanted to tell the storyof the malaria vaccine; one of the most important yet hidden stories of progress in the wo...
Ask Us Anything
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do KPop Demon Hunters and Bluey have to do with stories of progress? Well, you’ll hear the answer in this ‘Ask Us Anything’ episode. From c...
Rutger Bregman – Quit Your Job, Change The World
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, bestselling author andour first repeat guest on the podcast! In this episode we chat with Rutger about his new...
Paulie Stewart - Punk Magic
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Paulie Stewart, an Australian punk rocker who teamed up with a group of nuns to help disabled kids in Timor Leste. From walking on the wild side,...
Wawira Njiru - Engine Of Potential
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Wawira Njiru, a nutritionist and social entrepreneur in Kenya who’s gone from serving lunch to 25 children out of a makeshift kitchen to establ...
Boyan Slat - The Impossible Cleanup
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup - the world’s largest cleanup in history. After starting as a high school project in the Netherlands i...
Trailer - Season 4
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new chapter begins on July 31st, 2025.
The Good News You Missed In 2024
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Depending on where you get your news, 2024 probably sounded like a complete disaster. And while a lot of terrible things happened, not everything that...
Steven Pinker – Why Progress Is Possible
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist and public intellectual who is one of the world’s greatest thinkers on the topic of progress. He is the...
Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo – The Caravan Of Joy And Tears
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, a psychologist and narrativetherapist who uses a travelling caravan to bring mental health services to townships on the outs...
Sonia Vallabh - A Scientist's Quest To Cure Her Own Disease
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sonia Vallabh, a lawyer turned scientist with one of the most compelling stories we have ever heard. In 2011, Sonia was diagnosed with prion dise...
Clinton Global Initiative - A Million Little Bits
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two weeks ago, Amy attended the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, where she met some incredible change makers who are driving solutions across he...
Sigrid van Aken - The Lottery Of Progress
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sigrid van Aken, the CEO of Postcode Lottery Group, the world's 3rd largest private charity donor, after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...
Fernando Trujillo - Hope Songs In The Amazon
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We cover a lot of conversation stories about the Amazon at Fix The News, but it’s not often that we get the chance to talk with someone who is drivi...
Valery Wichman - Waves Of Change
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Valery Wichman, a leading LGBTQI+ activist and lawyer in the Cook Islands who was on the forefront of the fight to decriminalise homosexuality in...
Ada Palmer - A History Of Saving The World
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Ada Palmer, a historian and science fiction author who believes that when we zoom out to a centuries scale, humanity has a lot to be hopeful abou...
Ron Davis Alvarez - The Dream Orchestra
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Ron Davis Alvarez, a musician, teacher and conductor who created The Dream Orchestra to help refugee children and teenagers forge connections in ...
Marwa & Peta - The Mother's Call
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Peta & Marwa, two women from opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who are working together to create a shared and peaceful futu...
Kris Tompkins - A Love Letter To Rewilding
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Kris Tompkins, a rewilding legend who, alongside herlate husband Doug, has helped protect over 14 million acres of biodiverse landscape across Ch...
Season 3: Trailer
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This new chapter of stories begins August 9th, 2024. Please join us by subscribing to Hope Is A Verb where ever you listen to your podcasts.
Angus Hervey - Fix The News
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's no secret that the news media is in crisis: sweeping layoffs across newsrooms, consumer disengagement and stories of doom and destruction on ...
Yasmeen Lari - Zero Waste. Zero Poverty.
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Yasmeen Lari, 'starchitect' turned humanitarian who in the wake of the 2022 floods in Pakistan, vowed to build one million zero-carbon, disaster-...
Constantino Aucca Chutas - Indigenous knowledge In The Andes
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet 'Tino' Aucca Chutas, a biologist in Peru who has worked with communities across the Andes to plant almost 10 million trees to combat climate chan...
Hannah Ritchie - Not The End Of The World
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Hannah Ritchie, a data scientist and author of Not the End of the World, a book that makes the radically hopeful argument that we may be on track...
Eden Tadesse – Can The Internet Fix The Refugee Crisis?
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Eden Tadesse, a social entrepreneur and digital innovator from Ethiopia who created Invicta, a social impact platform that connects refugees and ...
Johannes Fritz - Flight School For Birds
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Johannes Fritz, a maverick biologist and conservationist who is reintroducing the endangered Northern Bald Ibis across Europe. Using an ultraligh...
Chesca Colloredo -Mansfeld - 'Miracle' Treatment For 80,000+ Kids
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Chesca Colloredo Mansfeld, a social entrepreneur who co-founded Miracle Feet: a low-cost, non-surgical treatment that has made an extraordinary i...
Ronni Abergel - The Library Where You Borrow People
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Ronni Abergel, founder of the Human Library Organisation where, instead of books, real people are on loan to readers. For over two decades, this ...
Flora Vano - Rising Seas, Women Rising
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Flora Vano, a climate activist who has rallied a female-led response to the climate crisis in Vanuatu. Fighting climate change with female empowe...
Aidan Reilly - How One Truck Can Change The World
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Aidan Reilly, one of the cofounders of the Farmlink Project. In 2020, Aidan and his friends rented a U-haul with an idea to help their local food...
Season 2 Trailer
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Hope Is A Verb! This season we'll bring you a new chapter of stories from the people who are mending our planet and tending to som...
Rutger Bregman- We're Better Than We Think We Are
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the end of our first season of this podcast, we're delighted to share this conversation with Rutger Bregman- the person who inspired this...
Bala Amarasekaran- The Accidental Conservationist
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Bala Amarasekaran, an accountant turned conservationist who founded the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone and empowered local communi...
Christine Figgener- The Sea Turtle Biologist
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Christine Figgener, a marine biologist who sparked a global movement against single-use plastic when her YouTube video of a turtle having a straw...
Tarek Loubani- 3D Printing Emergency Healthcare
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tarek Loubani, an emergency doctor who has created open-source, 3D printed medical supplies to solve critical shortages in war zones like Gaza an...
Wanjira Mathai- A New Story For Africa
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Wanjira Mathai, the Managing Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute who is empowering communities to restore landscapes and local e...
Tony Rinaudo- Reforesting The Desert Without Planting A Tree
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tony Rinaudo, an agronomist who has helped local communities in Niger reforest six million hectares of desert, without planting a single tree. It...
Jessica Wade- The Untold Stories Of Wikipedia
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Jessica Wade, an experimental physicist in London who has written 1,997 Wikipedia biographies for unrepresented female and minority scientists to...
Felix Brooks Church- The Small Machine That Could End Malnutrition
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Felix Brooks Church, a social entrepreneur who co-invented a small machine known as a "dosifier," which adds lifesaving nutrients to the staple f...
Shabana Basij Rasikh- Educating The Future Of Afghanistan
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of SOLA, Afghanistan’s first and only boarding school for girls who evacuated and relocated the entire school...
Trailer
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to change the world? It’s a question we started asking in August 2020 when we set out on a simple mission to find one human ever...