Amsterdam's innovative blue-green roofs capture rainwater for residents, promoting sustainable urban development. Benefits include flood reduction, biodiversity enhancement, and potential for rooftop farming.

The podcast explores how gut fungi can worsen Covid symptoms by triggering an overactive immune response. Researchers discuss the impact of severe Covid on internal fungi, leading to long-term immune changes. They also delve into personalized medicine for Covid patients with fungal overgrowth, highlighting the complexity of immune system responses post-infection.

Farmers worldwide are adopting regenerative farming practices to improve soil health, increase yields, and sequester carbon. The podcast explores challenges and benefits of transitioning to sustainable practices, measuring soil carbon content, and empowering small farmers for global soil health restoration.

WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants to fix ancient roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure before it’s too late.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To pull off this classic Hollywood stunt, you gotta know your physics!Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it’s happening at an uneven rate. That’s bad news for its sprawling public transportation system.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Researchers think a combination of genetic edits and an experimental immunosuppressive drug could make the first pig kidney transplant a long-term success.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices