Albania’s untamed Vjosa River introduces a new model for global water conservation.
Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
All photos by Ken Etzel If you get your nose close enough, ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch, depending on the tree. Washington is famous for its pine trees. It’s portrayed as a land of constant water and ever-present green, which, in mountain biking terms, translates to a land of perfect trails and…
All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
Since we first learned of the role we play in the spread of microfiber pollution in 2015, Patagonia has actively searched for partners to help end—or at least seriously curtail—the spread of synthetic fiber waste into the air and water. We’ve long been familiar with the microplastics problem—the breakdown of plastic bottles, yogurt cups and…
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
After centuries of destruction, nature needs to come first
How marine food production and thriving blue ecosystems go hand in hand.
A surfer’s relationship with our fragile, changing marine environment.
Trying to address the climate crisis without the ocean will not work.
An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.
Even when the demands of a protest are not met, it can have lasting, immeasurable consequences.
How we’re finally getting to PFC-free—and why it took so long.
An excerpt from Patagonia’s republished version of A Forest Journey, about what the loss of trees has meant for past life on our planet.
In Southeast Alaska, tribal leaders and local entrepreneurs are helping shape a kelp industry that prioritizes Indigenous values, regenerative practices and a commitment to Alaska Native shareholders.
Francisco “Pacho” Gangotena and his wife opted to challenge the way farming was done in their region and are instead going back to the roots of ancient agriculture.
This morning’s least-bad, bad ruling on climate, and some options President Biden still has.
Reforesting in the heart of Europe.
A former city kid finds answers and empowerment in nature.
The South Pacific has a plastic problem. He had a truck.
As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.