Coming in April 2023
Featuring voices from across the U.S. and around the globe, connect your audience to the world with these unique stories and perspectives. This month, we learn about how we discovered climate change in The Climate Question, people share stories about King Charles ahead of his coronation in ‘The Day I Met the King’ and then we learn how a hairdresser is fighting oil spills. See below for details and more unique stories.
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The Climate Question: How did we discover climate change / Does the answer to climate change lie in space?
One hour
April 9 – 29, 2023
An amateur scientist called Eunice Foote discovered the link between CO2 and global warming in America in 1856. That was 167 years ago. If we’ve known about climate change for so long, why haven’t people taken it more seriously? Then, does the answer to our insatiable need for energy have its solution in space-based solar farms?
The hidden caste codes of Silicon Valley
Half hour
April 18 – May 8, 2023
Indian workers are thriving in Silicon Valley, but some say they face caste discrimination.
The Day I Met The King
One hour
April 29 – May 26, 2023
To coincide with his Coronation, people from across the world recall their meetings with King Charles III of the United Kingdom.
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People Fixing the World: How eating oysters could help protect the coast
- Description: The Louisiana coastal wetlands are being washed away, leaving the region more vulnerable to hurricanes and flooding. Now, restaurants in New Orleans are recycling their oyster shells so they can be used to build sea walls.
- Suggested social copy: Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling their oyster shells in an effort to protect the Louisiana coastline.
- Duration: 1 minutes 58 seconds
People Fixing the World: Using human hair to fight oil spills
- Description: Usually our hair is thrown away after it’s cut. But a hairdresser in Wales has been using her customers’ hair to help save the planet.
- Suggested social copy: A hairdresser in Wales is collecting her customers’ hair and turning it into something useful.
- Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Why is that?: How honeybees self-medicate when they get sick
- Description: Just like us, honeybees get sick. But they have a clever way of protecting against parasites… Professor Jaap de Roode from Emory University explains how beekeepers could have unintentionally put honeybees at risk by selecting against this self-medicating behaviour.
- Suggested social copy: Honeybees self-medicate against parasites – but are beekeepers putting them at risk?
- Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds