Climate Mitigation

Climate Mitigation

A woman in traditional attire stands among a group of people, next to maps showing global data with colored grids and overlays.
A growing movement shows that protecting the world’s forests — and the people who have safeguarded them for centuries — is one of the most powerful, and overlooked, tools in the fight against climate change.
Skoll Foundation
A traffic signal warning sign is partially submerged in floodwater.
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
Industrial landscape featuring large smokestacks and various structures of an oil refinery, some incorporating cutting-edge carbon removal technology, set under a cloudy sky.
The carbon market and offsetting system have created “carbon cowboys” and perpetuated forms of neo-colonialism and other inequities.
Satellite image showing a dense cloud mass over the southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico, with an inset graph from NOAA depicting hurricane frequency peaking around mid-August to late September, a trend exacerbated by global warming.
The laws of physics aren't changing. But the Earth's conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.
Crowd of diverse people at a climate protest holding signs with messages like "act now before it's too late".
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
A picture of a serene forest with tall trees and a peaceful pond.
The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn't vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.
A map showing the location of the arctic ocean.
If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
solar geoengineering
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
Fire-retardant gels and slimes combine the best attributes of water and foam.
texas geothermal
A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
climate model
Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
Someday, the Sun will heat up enough to boil our planet’s oceans. Could moving the entire Earth away save us? “I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn’t boil […]