Fix The News: Fix The News Audio

348 (Audio): Wildfire. AIDS. Recess. Yellowstone to Yukon.

Fix The News — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:47:56 GMT

347 (Audio): Public media must not lie. Battery bestiary. Green walls. Hunger ⬇️

Fix The News — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:12:32 GMT

This week: two great green walls — one in China, one in Africa — slowly learning to hold back the desert after decades of failure. Hungary's state broadcaster apologising, on air, for lying. The world's fastest spider, clocked with a paintbrush. Global hunger falling for a third year running. And a deep dive into the weird and wonderful world of long-duration batteries — iron-air, compressed air, liquid air, sand, gravity, and more — quietly solving one of clean energy's hardest problems.

346 (Audio): Nightlights. Numbat. Crime watch. Spudcell.

Fix The News — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:53:32 GMT

345 (Audio): First Scroll. Tuk-tuk. Labour standards. Whale nursery.

Fix The News — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:22:06 GMT

There’s a library in southern Italy that’s been sealed since the year 79. When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it buried a villa full of papyrus scrolls under metres of ash. They didn’t burn, they charred, turning into fragile lumps of solid carbon that crumble to dust if you try to unroll them. This week, researchers read an entire scroll from that villa without ever opening it.

Also in this episode: moving beyond lip service and actually learning from First Nations, Louisiana’s first patient functionally cured of sickle cell disease, a global first for gig workers’ rights, blue whales returning to waters that whaling emptied out, and a proteomic mystery from a South African cave that might be the earliest known burial ritual outside our own species.

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344 (Audio): Fungi. Flu. Candyfloss. Kites.

Fix The News — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:35:56 GMT

This is the full audio edition of Fix The News, Edition 344.

31 minutes, from start to finish, and not just the newsletter read verbatim. We’ve removed all the source names and photo captions and rewritten it for listening: shorter sentences, spoken transitions, numbers said the way you'd say them out loud.

This week: a philanthropic bet on ending the common cold, Peru protecting a slice of Amazon headwaters after a 13-year campaign, Brazil's adolescent birth rate down 58% since 1996, the legal argument a French court just won against TotalEnergies, and the fungal network holding four to six times more carbon than every human on Earth combined.

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