Good News from Planet Earth

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 gardens designed to help butterflies, bees, and native plants thrive.With native seeds, community planting days, and pure determination, these girls turned

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. 200 of them, to be exact!From launching Fridays for Future Uganda to sparking a Birthday Trees movement that’s spreading across East Africa and

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, wildlife, or reforestation. But thanks to the sharp sense of smell in these fuzzy pollinators, scientists at the University of Zagreb are helping

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 steep hillsides, devour invasive plants (even poison oak!), and leave healthier soil behind.This is climate adaptation at its finest: low-tech, low-carbon,

Octopuses & Ocean Climate Wins: The Soft-Bodied Heroes of Blue CarbonIn 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 fragile blue carbon ecosystems like seagrass meadows and kelp forests. By keeping crab populations in check, octopuses help seagrass thrive,

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 birds. But that’s just the beginning.These furry diggers are quietly helping restore soil health, support native plant growth, and even inspire robotics design

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 wetlands, restored biodiversity, and brought back frogs, birds, and even the rare stone crayfish!This is a story about natural habitat restoration,

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, communities and creatures who are helping fight climate change, make a difference to their world and make an impact to the environment