Climate Solutions

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Worried about having a gas stove? Here’s how to limit risks.

Using other kitchen appliances, improving ventilation and experimenting with induction could help curb your exposure to pollutants.

By Allyson Chiu

Letter from the Editor

Executive editor Sally Buzbee on The Post's Climate Solutions coverage.

By Sally Buzbee

New French law will blanket parking lots with solar panels

France is set to pass a law requiring solar panels to be built above most parking lots, drastically accelerating renewable energy to fight global warming.

By Michael Birnbaum

‘They’ll just stand around and burp’: The cow dilemma in New Zealand

New Zealand – dubbed the Saudi Arabia of milk for its dominant role in global dairy trade – wants its farmers to pay a world-first levy on agricultural emissions by 2025 to help reduce agriculture's climate footprint.

By Rachel Pannett

‘Vegan,’ ‘sustainable’: How to spot misleading fashion claims

Virtuous proclamations and campaigns from clothing brands can often amount to greenwashing, or in some cases, “clearwashing,” where the information doesn’t tell consumers much.

By Allyson Chiu

Editors’ picks

Flight of the Condors

Once pushed to the brink of extinction, condors are soaring in Northern California skies again with the help of an Indigenous tribe and a team of scientists.

By Alice Li, Kasha Patel and Melina Mara

The electric future of snowmobiling

From snow sports to watercraft, battery-powered recreation could save millions of gallons of gasoline — and cut back on noise, fumes and pollution.

By Tik Root

Quiz: How much do you know about climate change?

10 questions to test your knowledge on global warming.

By Ryan Bacic and Aviva Loeb

How to protect your home from wildfires

The threat of wildfires is growing because of climate change. These are the steps you can take to prepare.

By Aaron Steckelberg and Tik Root

Climate VisionariesBrilliant people around the world who are working to find climate solutions.

How to make your home more energy efficient — and get a tax break too

You can make your home more energy-efficient this year with the federal government picking up at least some of the tab on everything from stoves to EVs.

By Erica Werner

Single-use coffee pods have surprising environmental benefits over other brewing methods

By Allyson Chiu

Is that fork really biodegradable? Companies may soon have to prove it.

By Michael Birnbaum

The big problem with plant-based meat: The ‘meat’ part

By Shannon Osaka

How to bust idlers, bike lane blockers and water wasters — and maybe get paid

By Allyson Chiu

Plastic forks become rarer as England joins global effort to ban them

The country aims to join a growing list of places restricting single-use plastic plates, forks and knives.

By Michael Birnbaum

This simple tweak could slash carbon emissions from U.S. military vehicles

Pentagon planners are pushing to add anti-idling technology to their next-generation workhorse vehicle.

By Michael Birnbaum

Ozone layer continues to heal, a key development for health, food security and the planet, U.N. study says

Scientists say strides in shrinking the “ozone hole” offer a path forward on global warming.

By Scott Dance

In Iceland, start-up founders invent new ways to tackle environmental crises

A new partnership between a bioplastic entrepreneur and an Icelandic manufacturer is part of a network in Iceland focusing on inventive and creative technologies to address the climate crisis.

By Hannah Hall

Why you might want a heat pump in your electric car

By Shannon Osaka

What really happens to your clothes after you donate them

By Allyson Chiu

3 ways to tap billions in new money to go green — starting this month

By Shannon Osaka

Why the U.S. is enlisting a spy agency during hurricanes

By Michael Birnbaum

With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’

By Sarah Kaplan

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The healthiest ways to light up a fireplace

Different types of fireplaces, such as wood-burning, natural gas and electric, can have varying environmental and health effects.

By Allyson Chiu

3M will stop making dangerous ‘forever chemicals’

The announcement comes as 3M is facing an onslaught of lawsuits from states and individuals who are claiming contamination from PFAS chemicals harmed their health.

By Allyson Chiu and Brady Dennis

Nations promise to protect 30 percent of planet to stem extinction

Close to 200 nations pledged to protect nearly a third of Earth’s land and oceans as a refuge for the planet’s remaining wild plants and animals by 2030.

By Dino Grandoni

In an ancient reindeer forest, one woman has found a way to slow climate change

By Shira Rubin

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Why you should almost always wash your clothes on cold

By Allyson Chiu

Ruby, the Capitol Christmas Tree, is part of a species in climate peril

The 78-foot-tall red spruce came from the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. As it glitters on the National Mall, advocates are hoping to draw attention to the challenges the trees face in a warmer, drier world, and why they are important to restore throughout the Appalachians.

By Brady Dennis

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