Millie Chu Baird is a Vice President in EDF's Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS). Millie leads innovative projects that produce actionable data to help solve environmental problems. She is the Deputy ...

Food production and the livelihoods of rural communities across the globe are vulnerable to a changing climate. Higher temperatures, fluctuating rainfall and more frequent droughts and floods can ...

EDF’s approach to international aviation involves market-based measures, stronger efficiency improvements and alternative fuels. If done correctly, these approaches can reduce the sector's pollution ...

Steven ensures the scientific integrity of EDF’s positions and programs, and facilitates collaborations with researchers from a diversity of institutions and countries. He also helps identify emerging ...

Winters are still delivering devastating snowstorms, with hurricane-force winds that leave thousands without power. That continues to be true even as the Earth gets hotter. And a warmer planet could ...

Since 1967, we’ve found innovative ways to solve the toughest environmental problems. The osprey was nearly wiped out by widespread use of the pesticide DDT. The pesticide DDT was used widely in the ...

The fastest way to slow global warming is to slash methane pollution. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with over 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide, over the first 20 years after it’s ...

The problem: Climate change is making flooding from rivers, rain and the ocean more destructive. Around the world, more than 1.8 billion people are at risk from flooding, with low-income and ...

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Methane — a potent greenhouse gas — is accelerating short-term warming far more than carbon dioxide would alone. That warming is contributing to extreme flooding, stronger storms, more intense ...

We work to stabilize the climate, strengthen the ability of people and nature to thrive and support people's health. Working in more than 30 countries, we focus on the areas where we can make the ...

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