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Patagonia makes waves with plant-based wetsuits and obligatory weed jokes
The outdoor outfitter has cooked up a green alternative to non-biodegradable, resource-intensive neoprene. But no, it's not going to get you high.
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Using Airbnb is greener than staying in hotels
Score one for the sharing economy? According to a new study, travelers who choose Airbnb tend to eat up less energy than hotel guests.
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Cargill promises to get right with palm oil
The agricultural giant joins a growing bandwagon of companies pledging not to promote deforestation as they supply their (and our) vegetable-oil habits.
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The EPA’s struggle to combat water pollution
Frustration and inaction color efforts to enforce the Clean Water Act.
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This GOP candidate says he’s cracking down on coal pollution — but green groups say that’s BS
The political fallout continues from the Dan River coal-ash disaster in North Carolina.
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The U.S. cities with the worst climate change-related flooding
Rising sea levels have kicked up flood days by as much as 900 percent along parts of the East Coast.
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Ask Umbra: What’s the most eco-friendly way to get rid of this sexy stubble?
Shaving? Waxing? Laser removal? What's an overly hirsute mammal to do? Umbra takes this question on the chin.
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Are there two different versions of environmentalism, one “white,” one “black”?
1970s scholars posited that an “apartheid ecology” excluded people of color from environmentalism. Were they right?
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At this year’s big climate rally, most of the people won’t be pale, male, and stale
The People's Climate March, planned for NYC on Sept. 21, has a diverse coalition of organizers, from healthcare unions to environmental justice groups.
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Farming bluefin tuna might be out of our depths
Because sushi connoisseurs have nearly wiped wild bluefin out, some scientists are trying to domesticate them. But, it turns out, tuna farming is no easy plow.
