The battle to restore the Klamath River lasted generations. When the dams finally came down, salmon returned within three days - far faster than scientists expected, marking a turning point for Indigenous rights, ecological restoration and cultural survival. Meet Amy Bowers Cordalis - attorney, activist and member of the Yurok Tribe - who helped lead one of the most significant river restoration efforts in modern history. Amy shares the story behind America’s largest dam removal project: from gr...
May 27, 2026•43 min
Gus and Amy recently attended Women Deliver 2026 – the world’s largest global conference on gender equality. Beyond reporting on the sessions, it was an opportunity to sit down with the people driving social change at every level. From feminist leaders in the Pacific to youth-led innovation, policymakers, and evolving conversations about the role of men in the fight for gender equality, Women Deliver 2026 offered a snapshot of a global movement in motion - and the tensions, ideas, and leadership...
May 13, 2026•43 min
What happens when two solutions-focused news platforms compare notes on how to change the narrative of the world? Meet Myra Anubi - BBC journalist and host of People Fixing the World - who, like Fix The News, is part of a growing movement to challenge the doom and gloom by reporting on what’s working. Through stories of climate innovation, global health breakthroughs and grassroots problem-solving, Myra is helping prove that solutions journalism isn’t a soft alternative - it’s rigorous, necessar...
Apr 29, 2026•37 min
This week’s headlines include – a historic shift in the global energy transition as renewables meet all new electricity demand; Africa’s measles vaccination drive saving 19.5 million lives; a breakthrough gene therapy restoring hearing; major global progress on poverty reduction and mental health; expanded access to education in Chicago; and two different comeback stories for seagrass ecosystems in France and Australia. NewsFix has officially moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or s...
Apr 27, 2026•6 min
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 multicultural advisor from Leeton, NSW - who turned a single conversation into Grain of Hope: a grassroots initiative shipping Australian wheat to Sudan, where millions face displacement and acute malnutrition.(We’ve linked ways to support their work below.) Rob & Ken share the reality of delivering 100 tonnes of grain into a crisis zone - from ...
Apr 15, 2026•36 min
This week’s headlines include – a global milestone in ocean protection; Brazil’s new deforestation crackdown using satellite monitoring; major gains in women’s rights and maternal health; record renewable energy growth in the US and Europe; and a groundbreaking IVF breakthrough that could change fertility treatment. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you look out for the new artwork - we've had a pretty big gl...
Apr 13, 2026•6 min
This week’s headlines include – Yes, we can end TB; the biggest expansion of education in human history; LGBTQ rights gaining ground; whales staging a dramatic comeback in Antarctic waters; a global energy shift; and the particle discovery that was not thought possible. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you look out for the new artwork - we've had a pretty big glow-up! If you need a bit more time, don't worry...
Apr 06, 2026•6 min
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. Over 52 episodes, we’ve met the people who are changing the world through conservation, education, healthcare, social reform and grassroots action. Each one has expanded our sense of what’s possible. Now, it’s time to evolve. From our next episode, this show will be called Fix The News - Same hosts. Same mission. Just a wider lens on the hidden sto...
Apr 01, 2026•27 min
This week’s headlines include – DNA building blocks discovered on asteroids; global child mortality down 60%; China consolidates environmental laws; monarch butterflies rebound in Mexico; women in politics rise across Africa; and AI supporting dementia care. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you look out for the new artwork - we've had a pretty big glow-up! If you need a bit more time, don't worry, we’ll keep...
Mar 30, 2026•6 min
This week's headlines include – Nigeria’s record investment in basic education; Indigenous-led land restoration across the United States; cities cutting air pollution by up to 45%; rhinos returning to the DRC; and a breakthrough stem cell treatment offering new hope for Parkinson’s. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you look out for the new artwork - we've had a pretty big glow-up! If you need a bit more time...
Mar 22, 2026•6 min
This week’s headlines include – India launches the world’s largest HPV vaccination campaign; school meal programmes across Europe reach 25 million children; solar becomes the fastest-growing energy source in history; EV giant BYD unveils a nine-minute charging system; river otters make a comeback in the Great Lakes and southern Africa launches its first cross-border birding route. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch ...
Mar 16, 2026•5 min
This week’s headlines include: Chile eliminates leprosy; the malaria vaccine is working in Nigeria fall after a vaccine rollout; Croatia clears its last landmines; renewable energy surges; recovery in Kazakhstan’s Aral region; wildlife comebacks from the Galápagos to Central Asia; and a breakthrough that could finally bring spider silk into mass production. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy...
Mar 09, 2026•6 min•Season 4Ep. 12
This week's roundup of good news includes – Gaza aid; Amazon deforestation; Ukraine energy; new blood test for cancer; world's largest marine reserve in Canada; Bonobo imagination study. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! To get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com
Feb 23, 2026•6 min
This week's headlines include – Solar power could supercharge farming; universal healthcarein Armenia; more good news for the Amazon; poorer economies are closing the gap; poverty reduction in Jamaica and personhood for Whales in the Pacific. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! Get in touch with the team: amy@fixthenews.com...
Feb 16, 2026•5 min•Ep. 12
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; electrified Porsches claim a victory; Poland’s step in the right direction for same sex-couples and is it really puppies-v-babies? NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com...
Jan 23, 2026•4 min•Ep. 12
Welcome back to NewsFix and our first edition for 2026. This week's headlines include – a counterpoint to the Middle East, astonishing progress on cancer, a golden age of vaccines, murder and homicide rates decline in the world’s leading cities, coal bites the dust (again) and Love Island for lizards? NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! Ifyou want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com...
Jan 16, 2026•5 min•Ep. 12
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 world this year. From the historic change in global health to an international maritime treaty, great news for green sea turtles and the climate story of the year - this is the hidden progress that unfolded behind the headlines. You can read the full download in our newsletter here . NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews . Hosted by AnthonyBadolat...
Dec 31, 2025•5 min•Ep. 12
This week's headlines include – a medical breakthrough in Gaza; death rates plummet for one of our most contagious viruses; ‘Empty Spain’; Australia’s environmental reform;more bad news for fossil fuels and AI for good. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com...
Dec 09, 2025•5 min•Ep. 12
This week's headlines include - major victory against extreme child poverty; rewilding efforts paying off in Scotland, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Ukraine; more good news on the malaria vaccine; what went right at COP30 and science reveals some very flirty primates. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews . Hosted by AnthonyBadolato, Hear That! Ifyou want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com...
Dec 01, 2025•5 min•Ep. 12
Meet Future Council, a global youth-led movement that’s empowering kids and teenagers to help co-design the future. Inspired by the documentary ‘Future Council’ that followed eight young activists as they travelled across Europe in a yellow bus confronting big business leaders, the movement is showing how the next generation can reshape climate leadership. In our final episode for this season, we chat with filmmaker Damon Gameau and two of the original councillors –Skye Neville, a 15 year old en...
Nov 28, 2025•33 min•Season 4Ep. 11
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 breakthroughs; more good news for the Amazon; Mongolia's ambitious conservation plan; crime declines in London and new hope for Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Check out our full coverage in this week's newsletter here . NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email...
Nov 21, 2025•5 min•Ep. 11
Meet Bryan Walsh, an editorial director at Vox, where he leads Future Perfect – an ambitious solutions journalism project that focuses on the policies and technologies that will make the future a better place. As a former foreign correspondent and climate writer for Time and the author of End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World , Bryan has spent more than two decades tracking humanity’s gravest threats. Today he is focused on highlighting the under-reported progress that shows we still ...
Nov 19, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 10
This week's headlines include: big news for HIV, tuberculosis and Leishmaniasis; China continues emissions decline; surprising drop in youth crime; long-awaited victory for Indigenous communities in Bolivia; more fish in the US and a stair-climbing wheelchair. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com...
Nov 14, 2025•5 min•Ep. 10
Meet Enric Sala, a marine ecologist, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and founder of Pristine Seas – an organisation that has helped create 31 Marine Protected Areas, safeguarding nearly 7 million square kilometres of ocean. From his five-year Pacific expedition using a three-person submersible to his film Ocean with David Attenborough and his work with governments and coastal communities to drive the 30x30 goal – Enric is someone who intimately understands the scale of the crisis and s...
Nov 12, 2025•37 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Meet Krystal Birungi, Carolina Morgado, Nice Leng’ete and Bhavreen Kandhari – four incredible women who are working on the frontlines of science, conservation, human rights, and environmental advocacy. Krystal is an entomologist with Target Malaria in Uganda developing gene-drive mosquitoes; Carolina is the executive director of Rewilding Chile; Nice leads community-based campaigns to end female genital mutilation in Kenya; Bhavreen co-founded Warrior Moms in India to force accountability on air...
Nov 10, 2025•34 min•Season 4Ep. 8
This week's headlines include: deforestation in the Amazon takes another plunge; Mexico reduces poverty; Nigeria boosts child health; no more corporal punishment in Czechia and the world is surprisingly becoming less grumpy. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News . Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com
Nov 07, 2025•4 min•Ep. 8
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' era begins, hidden progress on youth literacy, why we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a new atlas to map the human body, how AI is helping farmers in India, species extinction is losing speed and some big news for the humble zipper. NewsFix is brought to you by the team at Fix The News and hosted by Anthony Badolato from Hear ...
Oct 30, 2025•5 min•Ep. 8
Meet David Fajgenbaum, a physician scientist who is saving lives by repurposing existing medications to treat different diseases through his organisation Every Cure. This conversation will challenge the way you look medicine and unlock the possibility that some of the solutions we’re looking for, are hiding in plain sight, on the shelves of your local pharmacy. From the near-death experience that changed the course of David’s life to how he’s harnessing the power of AI for good, this episode is ...
Oct 24, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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 Global Initiative , Amy spoke with some incredible people who work on the frontlines of climate, healthcare, education and crisis response. Despite dwindling aid budgets and mounting challenges, these people are meeting this moment with big, bold ambition while quietly reshaping the future of development. From the ‘miracle drug’ for HIV to energy acces...
Oct 15, 2025•56 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 ‘orphan’ vaccine became a lifesaving intervention that has already reached 5 million children. We look at what's next for the malaria vaccine, the threats of funding cuts to global health and answer the big question – is it working? Here’s who you’ll meet: Angus Hervey: Founder of Fix The News Teresa Chirwa-Ndanga: Journalist & human rights activist, M...
Sep 26, 2025•33 min•Ep. 6
