How a Teen in Nigeria Turned a Dump into a Climate-Resilient Playground. Today on Good News from Planet Earth, we meet Amara Nwuneli - a 17-year-old climate innovator from Lagos, Nigeria, who looked at a trash heap… and saw a playground. Armed with imagination, recycled tires, and a bold vision for climate resilience, Amara transformed a flood-pron…

How Victoria & Justin Invented a Laundry Filter That Could Save the Planet. This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we meet Victoria Ou and Justin Huang - teen siblings from Texas who took on one of the tiniest (and sneakiest) climate threats: microplastics. After learning that plastic fibers from laundry were slipping past water treatment filter…

A Story of Quiet Conservation in New Zealand This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re heading to the windswept coast of Aotearoa (New Zealand) to meet 16-year-old Nate Wilbourne - a youth activist who helped nearly 200 endangered fluttering shearwater chicks find a new, safer home. In partnership with Forest & Bird and the New Zealand Depart…

This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re celebrating the power of young people, and today’s story is buzzing with brilliance! A troop of Girl Scouts in North Carolina saw that monarch butterflies were disappearing. So they rolled up their sleeves, grabbed their shovels, and launched a Butterfly Highway - a growing network of pollinator garde…

Welcome to Season 2 of Good News from Planet Earth! This week, we’re celebrating the next generation of climate leaders - kids who are taking action, speaking up, and making a real difference for the planet. In today's episode, we meet Leah Namugerwa - a Ugandan climate activist who celebrated her 15th birthday not with cake, but with tree planting…

In this buzz-worthy finale of our Caring Critters series, we're spotlighting one of the planet's most unexpected environmental heroes: honey bees trained to detect landmines. Yes - real bees. Real landmines. Real hope. After the Balkan Wars, Croatia was left with over 90,000 unexploded landmines, making vast landscapes too dangerous for farming, wi…

This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re spotlighting some of the hungriest climate heroes around: firefighting goats. Across California, Oregon, Colorado, and more, goats are being deployed to munch through dry brush, reduce wildfire risk, and create natural firebreaks - no bulldozers or fuel required! These four-legged landscapers climb st…

Octopuses & Ocean Climate Wins: The Soft-Bodied Heroes of Blue Carbon In this Caring Critters episode of Good News from Planet Earth, we dive deep into the surprising role octopuses play in the fight against climate change. These eight-armed ocean dwellers aren't just camouflage pros and escape artists, they're keystone predators helping to protect…

On today’s episode of Good News from Planet Earth, we’re going underground, literally - to meet the wombat: a chunky, cube-pooping marsupial with a surprising role in climate resilience. During Australia’s devastating Black Summer bushfires, wombat burrows became unexpected wildlife shelters, giving refuge to wallabies, echidnas, reptiles—even bird…

How Beavers Saved a Wetland (and $1.2 Million)! This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re heading to the Czech Republic to meet the world’s furriest engineers, Eurasian beavers - who stepped in when a government dam project stalled and saved an entire ecosystem. With no permits, no budget, and a lot of mud, these beavers rehydrated dried-up w…

A little mini episode to let you know what we're all about! Which is telling all the good news from Planet Earth! From fire fighting goats, to grandmas becoming solar powered superheroes! This podcast will give you snack sized episodes of joy every month, packaged up into seasons. We're shining a light on stories from around the world, of people, c…