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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.

Pumpkins provide a wide range of nutritional and medicinal benefits (Credit: Getty Images)

Pumpkins: The overlooked superfood

By Rashi Goel

The Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to go zero waste, meaning no waste will be burned or landfilled by 2032 (Credit: Sophie Eastaugh)

The Danish island eliminating trash

By Sophie Eastaugh

Sail drones are studying why and how hurricanes intensify to help improve hurricane forecasting (Credit: Saildrone)

The ocean drones tracking hurricanes

By Isabelle Gerretsen and Jocelyn Timperley

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a material that can absorb forever chemicals (Credit: Craig Fritz)

Can we clean up forever chemicals?

By Anna Turns

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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Mar Menor, Europe's largest coastal saltwater lagoon, faces severe contamination from pesticide runoff (Credit: Getty Images)

Cleaning Spain's 'green soup'

By María Elorza Saralegui and Ronald Rodrigues

The photo of the brown pelican soaked in oil became a symbol of the worst environmental disaster in US history (Credit: Win McNamee / Getty Images)

The bird that sparked a mass clean-up

By Riley Farrell

Pinchal Weldurelage Siriwardene stands in front of a tank water cascade in Maeliya, Sri Lanka (Credit: Zinara Rathnayake)

A 2,000-year-old method to water crops

By Zinara Rathnayake

A goat eating brush in parkland near West Sacramento, California (Credit: City of West Sacramento)

The goats fighting fires in LA

By Lucy Sherriff

Temperatures have fallen by an average of 2C (3.6F) in the green corridors (Credit: Getty Images)

The city that went green to keep cool

By Matheus Gouvea de Andrade

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

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)

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)

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)

Florida's first hurricane-proof town

By Lucy Sherriff

Braden Tierney and his team discovered a microbe that generates 22% more biomass than other fast-growing cyanobacteria strains (Credit: Seed Health / John Kowitz)

Our mini ally in the climate fight?

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Journalist Erika Benke in Onkalo, Finland (Credit: Erika Benke)

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)

Sustainability on a Shoestring

What is the greenest funeral option?

By Becca Warner

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