
The Best Articles, Videos, and Newsletters in Climate Crisis
The most useful articles, videos, and newsletters in Climate Crisis from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Climate Crisis Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Climate Crisis by Refind users in 2026 so far.
Videos
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How climate-friendly innovations can help cool our cities
As global temperatures rise, our cities are heating up, and that’s actually adding to the problem. As the FT’s Leslie Hook reports, by 2050, two-thirds of t...
Best Food to Counter the Effects of Air Pollution
There is a food that offers the best of both worlds, significantly improving our ability to detox carcinogens like diesel fumes and decreasing inflammation i...
The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast
There's an invisible super-pollutant heating up the planet — but it's surprisingly easy to reduce, if we try. Revealing how methane contributes (way) more in the short term to global warming than…
A food system that fights climate change — instead of causing it
Here's a wild stat: nearly one-third of the world's food production goes to waste each year, a major contributor to the climate crisis. Farmer and UN climate champion Gonzalo Muñoz sheds light on the international negotiations aimed at turning the food system into a climate solution, rather than part of the problem — and shows the progress already underway.
Vegetarian, vegan, flexitarian, pescetarian: Which diet is best for the planet?
The food we consume has a massive impact on our planet. Agriculture takes up half the habitable land on Earth, destroys forests and other ecosystems, and produces a quarter of the world’s greenhous…
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How to make sure racial justice is part of climate activism
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How a lush Miami park was designed to keep flooding at bay
As the climate crisis intensifies the storms lashing south Florida, it is imperative to design spaces that soak up the water. The 19.4-acre Bayshore Park is an example of how to design spaces that…
Young Africans will inherit a climate crisis: how kids in Sierra Leone are getting ready
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
Kenya’s double climate crisis: it needs funds to adapt, and disaster aid is damaging the environment
Kenya faces extreme weather crises. Humanitarian aid must be part of the solution.
How adults can help children move from climate anxiety to resilience
There are things that we can do to combat the climate crisis. Children should be supported so they don’t lose hope.
Short Articles
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Fossil fuel companies ‘poisoned the well’ of public debate with climate disinformation. Here’s how Australia can break free
The US has obstructed climate action for decades – largely due to damaging actions by the powerful fossil fuel industry. But Australia has a chance now to lead.
Earth’s lungs are choking on plastic and smoke
Plastic and climate change are interfering with how plants make food. It will blow back on us.
Why We Distrust Technology
Why do so many people reflexively favour social solutions to climate change while discounting the promise of technological breakthroughs? The answer lies in our evolutionary past.
«The underlying assumption is that suffering is virtuous—that real change requires sacrifice, restraint, and a return to a simpler way of living.»
10 Years Post-Paris: A decade that defied predictions
Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, John compares what was expected then with what’s been achieved now — tracking progress across clean energy, policy, emissions, jobs and more.
3 reasons to fear humanity won’t reach net-zero emissions
Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 is humanity’s only hope of achieving climate security. It’s time to think deeply about our chances of getting there.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Climate Crisis.
The climate crisis is here. We can still have a better world.
Aryana Elizabeth Johnson: What If We Get It Right explores hope in the climate crisis, a vision for the future and a strategy to build a better world.
Electric vehicles are the future. What happens to our gas-guzzling cars?
Climate change demands we reduce greenhouse emissions. But too many used cars could make that impossible.
The Climate Action We Need
The 2015 Paris Agreement was a landmark, but countries need to raise their ambition again to complete the transition away from fossil fuels.
The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get…
The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it is increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
Thought Leaders
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