Prof Gerold Stucki and colleagues examine how the integration of biological and lived experiences of health could revolutionize health systems and strategies.

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Dr Paul Behrens explores how a Great Food Transition and other radical transformations can avert the climate crisis and steer humanity toward a hopeful, healthier future.

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Prof Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and colleagues examine how evolutionary medicine can help inspire new ways to prevent and treat disease.

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Prof Thomas Hartung and colleagues take a deep dive into the scientific, technological and ethical steps for realizing the full potential of organoid intelligence.

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Dr Kamila Markram
Co-founder and CEO, Frontiers

Dr Kamila Markram describes how science has improved human lives over the past 200 years and the consequences of this on the Earth's planetary boundaries – ending with an urgent message to accelerate the global transition to open science to solve the climate crisis before it's too late.

39 min

Al Gore
Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate | USA

Al Gore speaks on the need for open science, collaboration, accountability and transparency in reaching our climate goals and achieving effective decarbonization efforts across the global economy.

3 min

Ban Ki-moon
United Nations | South Korea

Ban Ki-moon explains the need for global solutions to address global crises such as armed conflict, pandemics, and climate change that are inherently intertwined and interconnected.

50 min

Dr Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall Institute | UK

Dr Goodall outlines why she believes humanity’s indomitable spirit will overcome the climate crisis, and how the scientific community adds to her hope for the future.

5 min

Prof Johan Rockström
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Germany

Prof Rockström gives crucial scientific evidence to stay within 1.5°C of warming to keep our planet in the only state we know that can support humanity, the Holocene.

41 min

Prof Yuval Noah Harari
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel

Prof Harari explains the potential for artificial intelligence to become our planet’s first inorganic lifeform and the threat this ‘alien’ intelligence poses to human civilizations, without becoming conscious or able to navigate the physical world.

41 min

Prof Cynthia Kenyon
Calico Life Sciences | USA

Prof Kenyon outlines newly discovered treatments to extend health and lifespans in animals, and explains what we need to do to translate these findings to humans.

20 min

Prof Rudolf Jaenisch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA

Prof Jaenisch presents evidence that SARS-CoV-2 RNA can retro-integrate into the human genome, postulating whether this could explain why some people experience long COVID.

17 min

Prof Kevin Esvelt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA

Prof Esvelt outlines our increasingly powerful ability to genetically edit and reprogram entire species – and the defenses, checks, and balances needed to mitigate any potential unintended consequences from ecological engineering.

20 min

Dr Britt Wray
Stanford University | USA

Dr Wray reveals a surprising truth: while climate change and ecological crises can push us into a state of eco-anxiety, numbness, and fatalism, this grief can also mobilize and spark action that both improves mental health and benefits the planet.

25 min

Dr Seth Berkley
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance | Switzerland

Dr Berkley explains the historic challenges to vaccinating people in low-income countries and how Gavi has successfully overcome these problems.

33 min

Prof Johan Rockström, Prof Yuval Noah Harari, Prof Mary Scholes and Vivienne Parry

Prof Rockström, Prof Harari, and Prof Scholes discuss the challenges of reaching net zero, what additional science is required to make the transition possible, effective communication strategies and policies to mobilize the stakeholders involved, and how equity can be achieved on a global scale.

32 min

Frontiers Planet Prize

Prof Carlos Peres
University of East Anglia | UK

United Kingdom International Champion Prof Peres demonstrates that community-based nature conservation programs can improve the livelihoods of rural families living in Amazonian protected areas.

10 min

Frontiers Planet Prize

Prof Mark New
University of Cape Town | South Africa

South Africa International Champion Prof New shows that removing alien invasive trees from water catchments can reduce water stress during droughts in South Africa – filling an evidence gap on the efficacy of habitat restoration.

17 min

Frontiers Planet Prize

Dr Paul Behrens
Leiden University | Netherlands

Netherlands International Champion Dr Behrens quantifies the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if high-income countries eat less meat and restore land spared from animal farming.

10 min

Frontiers Planet Prize

Prof Baojing Gu
Zhejiang University | China

China International Champion Prof Gu shows a map of how nitrogen emissions contribute to deadly air pollution, and that ammonia is a better target than nitrogen oxides for tackling this global health threat.

12 min