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We get it. You care about the climate crisis—but sometimes thinking about it is just too overwhelming. Well, we’re here to help with that. Host Dan Kwartler unpacks the problems and solution...

In the heart of Louisiana, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, more than 150 petrochemical plants spew huge amounts of carbon into our atmo...

Food production makes up about 12% of our global emissions—that comes not only from the kinds of food we eat (like beef, which is one of the...

The aviation industry is responsible for 3.5% of the world’s carbon emissions. That may seem like a small number globally, but this is a big...

Did you know that cows emit methane when they burp? Livestock account for over 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, but farmers and...

Even if we do everything we need to do to limit our carbon emissions—curb deforestation, stop driving so many miles, clean up our power grid...

How much time do you spend commuting to and from work in your car? And do you drive alone? In the US, the transportation sector emits more c...

Ten years ago, Indonesia’s forests were being decimated due to a big spike in palm oil production…until two Girl Scouts decided to get invol...

Did you know the UK just closed its last coal plant? Hooray! But after taking a moment to celebrate, Ryan and Anjali reflect on what to do a...

This is the surprising story of how Texas – rich in oil and gas – became America's biggest producer of wind energy. For our first episode, R...

This is an episode of a podcast we think you'll love, Climate One. A third of Americans say that they've skipped food, medicine, or somethin...

Coming September 22nd, 2025: Speed & Scale TED has a new podcast. Here’s a new climate story: the biggest solutions to our climate crisis ex...

This is an episode from our friends at the Climate Rising podcast. This episode in our hard-to-abate series features aviation expert Robin R...

Exactly when and where did life on Earth begin? Scientists have long thought that it emerged three billion years ago in the ocean — until as...

Everyone has the right to a clean environment — but major disparities exist when it comes to who faces the consequences of pollution. Enviro...

Your closet is likely full of all kinds of materials — leather, cotton, nylon and polyester, to name a few — that contribute to fashion's su...

What if you could eat chicken nuggets without harming a chicken? It's possible through "cellular agriculture," says Isha Datar. In a talk ab...

From the return of nomadic living to a climate-disrupted world, author and global strategist Parag Khanna has some predictions for humanity....

The single most important thing for avoiding a climate disaster is cutting carbon pollution from the current 51 billion tons per year to zer...

Today's youth have inherited a big, unprecedented climate problem to solve — and the eco-anxiety to go with it. Gen-Zer and activist Clover...

This is an episode from a show we think you might like: The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast. Holiday shopping season is upon us, but instead of h...

The third season of Sold Out examines the intersection of the climate and housing crises. Hosted by Erin Baldassari, the series tells the st...

TED Climate will be back soon -- in the meantime here is an episode of another podcast we thought you'd enjoy. This is the first episode of...

Not Too Late, written by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, offers us the tools to tackle this current wave of disinformation, and...

Many people across the world don't have access to healthy food -- while in other places tons of food go to waste. Social entrepreneur Ndidi...

"Breathing clean air is every child's human right," says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story o...

Over the last two decades, the wind power industry has grown at a dizzying pace. (Fun fact: a single rotation from one of the world's most p...

"The way we cool things down is heating the planet even more," says sustainable development expert Rachel Kyte -- and the solutions go well...

What do woolly pigs have to do with climate change? They're part of a vital, ingenious and evolving strategy to take carbon out of the sky a...

Bjørn Otto Sverdrup leads the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), which gathers the CEOs of twelve of the world's largest oil and gas com...

Most scientific literature is written only in English, creating an alarming knowledge gap for the 75 percent of the world who don't speak it...

As chairman of the world's largest maritime shipping company, Jim Hagemann Snabe thinks a lot about how goods get where they need to go and...

By 2100, the UN estimates that the world's population will grow to just over 11 billion people. Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti wants us to st...

There's been explosive investment in new technologies aimed at decarbonizing the planet. But climate investor Dawn Lippert says something ke...

The doctrine of "first, do no harm" is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath, one of the world's oldest codes of ethics. It governs the work of...

"How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it's cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?" asks engineer and inves...

The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be "cleaned" wi...

What we know today about global greenhouse gas emissions is mostly self-reported by countries, and those numbers (sometimes tallied manually...

When it comes to tackling climate change, the size of a country doesn't matter -- it's their ambition that counts, says First Minister of Sc...

A net-zero future is possible, but first we need to flip a mental switch to truly understand that we can stop the climate crisis if we try,...

Today we're featuring a preview of a new show you might enjoy: Guardians of the River, the winner of the 2021 Best Narrative Nonfiction Podc...

Climate action can be a vehicle to deliver dignity, opportunity and equality for all. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed invites...

"Cutting methane is the single fastest, most effective opportunity to reduce climate change risks in the near term," says atmospheric scient...

In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 -- a c...

To fight climate change, we need to clean up the global electricity system by replacing fossil fuel power plants with clean generation -- ri...

We currently have enough fossil fuels to progressively transition off of them, says climate campaigner Tzeporah Berman, but the industry con...

The roadmap to ending pollution from transportation is here, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. In conversation with head of TED Ch...

Living in a city means accepting a certain level of dysfunction: long commutes, noisy streets, underutilized spaces. Carlos Moreno wants to...

What does gender equality have to do with climate change? A lot more than you might think. Empowering women and girls around the world is on...

Activism is a tough job, especially for young people yearning for immediate change -- something climate activist Melati Wijsen has learned o...

Agriculture has enabled the existence of civilization—today, approximately 40 percent of our planet is farmland. So it goes without saying t...