Outdoor Sports Turn Climate Impacts Into Action | Climate

Last Update: 09/22/2026 at 11:33 PM EST

Coverage from Skeptical Science, Yale Climate Connections, and others

Climate change is disrupting outdoor sports in the United States through extreme heat, wildfire smoke, wildfire damage, unsafe playing conditions, and warming streams.

The outdoor recreation sector’s reported $1.3 trillion in 2024 economic output gives athletes, teams, brands, and fans a sizable constituency for climate advocacy. Organizations are being encouraged to use sport-specific evidence, participate in utility and public-land decisions, build coalitions, and scrutinize fossil-fuel sponsorships.

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Skeptical Science

10 Ways Outdoor Sports Can Advance Climate Action

Athletes, teams, brands, and outdoor organizations are being urged in the United States to use worsening climate impacts and economic influence to advance climate action.

9/2/2026 • Policy, Politics & Governance • General

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Yale Climate Connections / Karin Kirk

10 Ways Sports Communities Can Advance Climate Action

In 2024 and 2025, U.S. outdoor sports organizations, athletes, and advocates used climate impacts and recreation's economic importance to promote climate action, policy engagement, and challenges to fossil fuel sponsorships.

8/27/2026 • Policy, Politics & Governance • General

Good Good Good / Karin Kirk

How Athletes And Fans Can Turn Sports Into Climate Action

Outdoor athletes, teams, and recreation groups are being encouraged in the 2020s to organize climate advocacy across the United States as heat, wildfire smoke, and ecosystem changes disrupt sports and recreation.

9/3/2026 • Policy, Politics & Governance • General