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![Hadza scout Ezekiel Phillipo overlooking Tanzania's Yaeda Valley.]()
![Hadza scout Ezekiel Phillipo overlooking Tanzania's Yaeda Valley.]()
In Tanzania, carbon offsets preserve forests and a way of life
Carbon offsets have been criticized for failing to provide carbon savings and ignoring the needs of local communities. But in Tanzania, hunter-gatherer tribes are earning a good return for their carbon credits and protecting their forests from poachers and encroaching agriculture.
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![A group of people stand defensively in front of a tropical forest.]()
![A group of people stand defensively in front of a tropical forest.]()
From the North Pole to the Amazon: 4 new documentaries, reviewed
At the Mountainfilm Festival, docs explore melting ice and disappearing forest, but could go deeper.
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![collage of moose head, vintage rifle, and shirtless man wearing open buffalo plaid jacket, on top of a photo of a forest]()
![collage of moose head, vintage rifle, and shirtless man wearing open buffalo plaid jacket, on top of a photo of a forest]()
How Abercrombie & Fitch used the outdoors to sell clothes
The 'White Hot' retailer helped shape the notion that 'to get back to nature, Americans needed to go shopping first.'
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![An enormous yacht dwarfs other sailboats in a sunny harbor]()
The climate case for seizing superyachts, Russian and otherwise
Oligarchs' superyachts emit more carbon than some Pacific Island nations.
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Peak cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. is early again
The harbinger of spring brings joy, but also growing unease over climate change
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Jane Fonda’s new climate PAC is taking on fossil fuel-backed politicians
And this isn’t her first rodeo in political funding.
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![Green striped album cover with 11:11 in red text placed on top of photo of four men and a woman standing in a row with forested background]()
![Green striped album cover with 11:11 in red text placed on top of photo of four men and a woman standing in a row with forested background]()
Pinegrove has climate anxiety, but they’re not making it about themselves
The indie rock band’s latest album, 11:11, is an exploration of modern crises that pushes its audience outward, not in.
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![black and white photo of man in tux holding an envelope with a gold oil pump on it; red curtains in background]()
![black and white photo of man in tux holding an envelope with a gold oil pump on it; red curtains in background]()
Greenwashing for Big Oil? There’s an award for that.
Advertising agencies love getting awards. But not this one.
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![collage: black and white photo of woman sorting huge pile of clothes, yellow circle on top with the clothing inside it in color]()
![collage: black and white photo of woman sorting huge pile of clothes, yellow circle on top with the clothing inside it in color]()
How clothing forms the fabric of society, both past and future
'Worn' by Sofi Thanhauser and the HBOMax series 'Station Eleven' offer novel ways to think about what we wear.
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![Side view of microphone with earth attached to end, yellow circle in background]()
PR worked for Big Oil. So can it work for climate action?
The scholar Melissa Aronczyk sees dangers in borrowing from the PR playbook.
