COP31 climate talks and punny gritters

The COP31 climate talks are under way in Antalya, Turkey, and Bex, Eve and Joe talk through what world leaders from nearly 200 countries hope to agree, including Turkey’s “35 by 35” goal to get more of the world’s energy from electricity. There’s also Kent’s new fleet of gritters with names like T…

Talking about cancer and the US midterms

This week’s cover stars are Ollie and his 12-year-old daughter Cora, and they join Bex to share their story, from Ollie’s bowel cancer diagnosis and how a Week Junior article helped Cora spot the signs, to meeting the King and Queen and climbing Big Ben, and why it’s so important for all of us to t…

Brazil’s election and Junior Eurovision

Brazil has re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as its president, and Bex, Eve and Joe talk through how Lula beat Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of voting after trailing him in the first, helped by nearly three million extra voters and young campaigners who became known as “Lula’s army”. The…

Prize-winning rug factory and a shrinking Mont Blanc

A rug factory in Rangpur, Bangladesh, has been named the world’s best new building outside the UK, and Bex, Eve and Joe talk through why the Green Field Factory by Nakshabid Architects won the RIBA International Prize, from its courtyards, ponds and gardens to a rooftop daycare centre for the child…

Nobel Peace Prize and animals on banknotes

South African lawyer Navi Pillay has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work on human rights and international law, and Bex, Eve and Dan talk through her life’s work, from defending people who fought against apartheid to six years as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and…

Hope for wildlife and world champion porridge

The WWF’s new Living Planet Report is called The Science of Hope, and Bex, Eve and Stevie talk through what it found, including wild tiger numbers rising by more than 70% since 2010, and what we can all do to help nature recover. There’s also Dutch porridge maker Gina Saarberg winning the Golden S…

Book awards and Sycamore Gap’s new shoots

It was The Week Junior Book Awards this week, and Bex, Eve and Stevie talk through the big night, including Jack Mackay’s spooky story Gloam winning two trophies and the books they each helped to judge. There’s also new shoots sprouting from the stump of the Sycamore Gap tree, a hotel shaped like …

Turning hope into action

This week, as part of the Be Hope Podcast Takeover, we talk to guerilla gardener and nature rights campaigner Kalpana Arias about her work and what makes her feel hopeful. We also talk about new social media rules in the EU, a scheme to encourage more people to read in Singapore, and whether e-sco…

Slowing down AI and woolly glaciers

The boss of AI company Anthropic has said that powerful artificial intelligence should be developed more slowly and checked more closely, and Bex, Eve and Dan talk through why more than 70 UK politicians are also asking for new rules on AI. There’s also scientists in Switzerland wrapping melting g…

Fast fashion fees and a fossil hunter’s blue plaque

France has brought in new rules that make ultra fast fashion companies pay a fee on every new item of clothing they sell there, from 43p for an item of underwear to £10.28 for a jacket, and Bex, Eve and Martha talk through why cheap, quickly made clothes create so much waste. There’s also a blue p…