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As we face the world’s greatest environmental challenges, Future Planet brings you the solutions that can make the world a more sustainable place.

The Texas Tree Foundation have launched a cool schools programme to plant more trees in lower-income neighbourhoods in Dallas (Credit: Kristy Offenburger)
Future Planet

Why heat is a 'silent killer'

By Cagney Roberts

Sea sponge farming is offering a lifeline to single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar (Credit: Lauraclara Cosmas)
Future Planet

How sponges help Zanzibar women

By Kizito Makoye
The Royal Mint says its new recycling facility will recover hundreds of kilogrammes of gold from electronic waste annually (Credit: The Royal Mint)
Future Planet

Why your laptop is a gold mine

By Anna Turns
Babcock Ranch emerged almost unscathed when Hurricane Ian hit the town in September 2022  (Credit: Getty Images)
Future Planet

Florida's first hurricane-proof town

By Lucy Sherriff
Smog envelopes a promenade in Northern India (Credit: Getty Images)
A large arroyo oak stands by the side of a stream (Credit: The Morton Arboretum)
A view over Ashton Lagoon on Union Island in 2019 (Credit: Alamy)
A factory worker checks row upon row of lithium batteries (Credit: Getty Images)
A man walks past wind turbines in Indonesia at dusk (Credit: Getty Images)
A woman looks at the train times displayed on screens in a station (Credit: Getty Images)

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Braden Tierney and his team discovered a microbe that generates 22% more biomass than other fast-growing cyanobacteria strains (Credit: Seed Health / John Kowitz)
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Our mini ally in the climate fight?

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Journalist Erika Benke in Onkalo, Finland (Credit: Erika Benke)
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A 100,000-year tomb for nuclear waste

By Erika Benke
Turning a human body into soil reminds us that "we're not adjacent to nature, we're part of nature," says Katrina Spade, founder of Recompose (Credit: Getty Images)
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What is the greenest funeral option?

By Becca Warner
Researcher Annie Innes-Gold deploys a hydrophone used to listen in on ocean sounds (Credit: Dava Watson)
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Sound recordings from beneath the sea

By Katherine Latham
A movement of "Indigenous Guardians" across Canada are stewarding their traditional lands and waters and redefining what conservation can look like (Credit: Pat Kane Photo)
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The indigenous guardians healing Canada

By Kira Walker
In Coober Pedy, the rock is so soft it can be scratched with a fingernail (Credit: Alamy)
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The town where people live underground

By Zaria Gorvett
Montpelier was among several cities in Vermont hit by flooding in July 2023. Research shows better urban planning can help reduce impacts from flooding (Credit: Getty Images)
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The US states pre-empting floods

By Lucy Sherriff
Seawilding director Danny Renton hauls up a floating cage of juvenile oysters, which will eventually be re-released into the loch (Credit: Frankie Adkins)
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The Scottish village reviving a loch

By Frankie Adkins
Hammerhead sharks swimming at a marine reserve in Costa Rica (Credit:Getty Images)
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What if we stopped all fishing?

By Zaria Gorvett
Stephenie Carrie sits in the shade in June, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Communities of colour often experience higher temperatures than white neighbourhoods (Credit: Getty Images)
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How Texas is heat-proofing its cities

By Lucy Sherriff
Skywells were designed to cool buildings in an era well before air-conditioning existed (Credit: Wuyuan Skywells Hotel)
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The ancient Chinese way to cool homes

By Xiaoying You
Shipping releases 3% of the world's greenhouse gases each year – could modern ships with added sails help cut emissions from fuel? (Credit: Oceanbird)
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What would green shipping look like?

By Isabelle Gerretsen