The past year has brought a drumbeat of alarming news about the impact of climate change: shattered temperature records, deadly heat waves, accelerating sea level rise and more. Yet many people are working hard to turn things around, offering hope and inspiration.
The Washington Post, beginning today, aims to give them the attention they deserve. Climate Solutions is a new initiative focused on the individuals, companies and other organizations that are exploring ways to address our most significant environmental problems.
We are embarking on this effort with the support of Rolex, which seeks to spotlight innovators on the front lines of that fight.
(Photos by Jonas Opperskalski)
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Divers re-emplanting corals on degraded reefs
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(Ulf Svane)
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The troubling ethics of fashion in the age of climate change
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How you can reduce your carbon footprint when you travel
Your choices can make a difference. But your trip will have an environmental impact.
The most prominent efforts to prevent that crisis involve reducing carbon emissions. But another idea is also starting to gain traction — sucking all that carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.
In Illinois, a push for renewable energy could alter the state’s agricultural landscape.
What the Space Age taught us: Earth is the best of all possible worlds
Star Trekking put on hold as visionaries appreciate the home planet anew
Conservationists and authors of a United Nations report on biodiversity loss say individuals have the power to create meaningful change.
A new study promised a rare positive development from global warming for Maryland’s favorite crustacean. But bad news wasn’t far behind.
The government said Britain would be the first “major economy” to enshrine net-zero carbon targets in law.
Young Europeans are digging out their parents’ yellowing Europe-by-rail guidebooks.
Earth’s population is skyrocketing. How do you feed 10 billion people sustainably?
A new study finds the current methods of producing, distributing and consuming food aren’t cutting it.
Companies leading the hunt for ways to skim carbon dioxide from the air are attracting interest from big deep-pocketed corporations — including oil companies.
When a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck remote parts of Peru’s Amazon region, Loon — an Internet-providing balloon service owned by Alphabet — dispatched a group of balloons to the impacted area.
“We have a new wave of contention in society that’s being led by women," sociologist Dana Fisher said. "And the youth climate movement is leading this generational shift."
At the London Marathon, participants received a new kind of refreshment: tiny pouches filled with a sports drink and made from seaweed. The squishy pods gave race organizers a chance to cut down on the flood of plastic waste that accompanies major sporting events.
As seas rise, the U.N. explores a bold plan: Floating cities
Buoyant platforms that can weather cyclones and climate change could provide room for crowded coastal cities to grow.
Sony has introduced a new product called the Reon Pocket, which operates like a mobile air conditioner that fits inside clothing.
RS Automotive will become the first service station in the nation to completely convert their equipment from offering gasoline to 100 percent electric power.
After a rigorous search in a rapidly melting Arctic, researchers have finally found a suitable floe with which their vessel can drift across the North Pole.
Three scientists won the award for their development of rechargeable batteries.
Churches say they are fulfilling God’s command — and the wishes of Francis in “Laudato Si” — by switching to renewable energy.
The Sierra Club's annual guide to buying plug-in electric vehicles provides a user-friendly quiz to help you identify possible vehicles to buy.