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![Photoshopped 100 dollar bill with top center edge burnt away and on fire, with Earth in the center instead of Ben Franklin]()
![Photoshopped 100 dollar bill with top center edge burnt away and on fire, with Earth in the center instead of Ben Franklin]()
What’s wrong with the economy? Climate change, for one.
A new book argues that Corporate America is waking up to climate action. It’s all about the bottom line.
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![Virtual reality headset reflecting a view of earth and part of the International Space Station]()
![Virtual reality headset reflecting a view of earth and part of the International Space Station]()
Can virtual reality recreate the overview effect? I took a $50 trip to space to find out.
The view of Earth was awe-inspiring. But my VR headset kept getting in the way.
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![Illustrated portrait of a Black man in his thirties with a small afro, goatee, red beaded necklace and black shirt; a square of orange watercolor brushstrokes is behind him]()
![Illustrated portrait of a Black man in his thirties with a small afro, goatee, red beaded necklace and black shirt; a square of orange watercolor brushstrokes is behind him]()
Olúfémi O. Táíwò’s theory of everything
One of America’s most prominent philosophers argues that climate change calls us to rethink world history.
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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]()
![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]()
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.
