10 Environmental Issues in China You Didn't Know About
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Dust storms, extinctions, widespread pollution, out of control carbon emissions, unmitigated energy useage. . .learn what's really going on in China. More »
Can Chef Kate Metzler help save the sharks?
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A cultural delicacy threatens the marine ecosystem. More »
Intolerable Beauty: Chris Jordan Photographs American Mass Consumption
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"In the end, I realized this was the tiny tip of the iceberg. There's no one place I can go to capture it all." More »
Chevron's Greenwashing Ad Campaign
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It's simple, touchy-feely, and personal. But critics say Chevron's latest ad campaign is just the latest example of corporate greenwashing. More »
Wipe Out: World's Most Vulnerable Coastal Cities
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Climate change experts predict which cities are most vulnerable if our seas continue to rise. More »
Photo Essay: Protest at Chevron's Annual Shareholder Meeting
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A photo report of the protest outside Chevron's Annual Shareholder Meeting in San Ramon, California. More »
Havana's lessons in green living
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"Economy and politics aside, seven days in Havana remind me of how easy it is to go green at the individual and societal levels." More »
9 Disappearing Glaciers Worldwide: A Photo Essay
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The world's rapidly-shrinking glaciers are the most stunning evidence, visually and scientifically, of global climate change. More »
Plastic Bag Ban: Coming Soon to a City Near You?
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Governments around the world are banning plastic bags. More »
Best Buy wants you to recycle electronics
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And they're making it easy for you. More »
The World's Most Offensive Landfills
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Continuing to bury our refuse is not a sustainable option. We must scale back our production of waste. More »
BioTour: Journey Into a Sustainable Future
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A school bus converted to run on veggie oil and driven to Burning Man now on a nationwide educational tour. More »
"60 Minutes" Exposes Chevron's Environmental Atrocity in the Amazon
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Dirty deeds done dirt cheap turn a tidy profit for America's third largest company. More »
Should travel writers care about their environmental impact?
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That's the take-away question in the latest "twitstorm." More »
8 Fun Ways to Volunteer for Farmers Markets
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Pumped about this year's local produce arriving at the markets? Here are 8 fun ways to help 'em out. More »
How to Make Your Christmas Greener
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Neha Puntambekar shares all you need to know about having an environmentally conscious Christmas. More »
New Report: World Still Unprepared For Climate Change
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The National Research Council reminds us that we need to make changes, pronto. More »
Climate Change Seen Firsthand
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Matador's editors share the effects of climate change they've observed on their travels. More »
Introducing the First (Green) Family
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Foodies, rejoice! The First Family IS planting an organic garden! More »
Bluefin tuna ban & polar bear protection blocked by UN members
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Trade interests trump environmental concerns at the United Nations. More »
Plastic Bans on Uptick Around the World
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Let's hope these plastic bans lead to a domino effect. More »
Celebrities Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro for Clean Water
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Celebrities climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the one billion people around the world without safe drinking water. More »
Exposing the Bi-Partisan Myth of Clean Coal
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One topic Obama and McCain won’t be wrangling over: so-called “clean” coal. But how clean is it, really? More »
21st Century Refugees: Displaced By Climate Change
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Climate change and rising sea levels are creating a new group of refugees. More »
Six Reasons Why Cities Can Be Sustainable Places
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I've spent half of my life in the country & half in the city. Guess which place is more sustainable? More »
Nat Geo's Garbage Moguls
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National Geographic's new show, Garbage Moguls, features dumpster divers turning discarded items from trash into trendy. More »
Shame on Shell: Settlement Reached in Wiwa v. Shell
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That rumor about a settlement in Wiwa v. Shell wasn't unfounded. Here's the latest. More »
Japan to Harvest Energy from the Sun Via Solar Space Station
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The SSPS project, which Japan hopes to become fully realized as soon as 2030, will put into orbit giant solar panels just outside Earth's atmosphere to gather the sun's energy and beam it down to us in the form of lasers or microwaves. More »
Desertification: The World's Most Underestimated Environmental Crisis
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We worry about global warming and oceans rising. But what about a dried up world? More »
Google's PowerMeter calculates your energy use
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Google, could you just go ahead and take over the world? More »
Interview with Paul Sanchez-Navarro Russell, Director of CEA
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Matador interviews Paul Sanchez-Navarro Russell, director of Centro Ecologico Akumal in Mexico. More »
Grand Central Gets Greener
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New York City's transportation crossroads and tourist attraction gets green makeover. More »
Close Encounters with Marine Mammals: At What Price?
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An Oscar win and a trainer death at SeaWorld raise questions about the way we treat marine mammals. More »
Climate Change Summit in Bolivia Ends Today
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Did you know a world climate change conference has been going on in Bolivia this week? No? Ryan Van Lenning fills you in. More »
[Poll] Would You Vacation on the Gulf Coast?
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Are reports of oil-smothered beaches enough to deter you from visiting the Gulf Coast? More »
Celebs plan Kilimanjaro cake walk to raise money for clean water
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I may not have Jessica Biel's body, but even I know Mt. Kilimanjaro is no cake walk. More »
How Far Would You Go to Curb Climate Change?
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Tim DeChristopher's answer will take him all the way to court. More »
Tracing oil profits: Oxfam asks, "Where does all the money go?"
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Big oil has big profit losses. But people in the communities where oil is extracted have long wondered where *their* profits are. More »
First Person Dispatch from the Chevron Protest
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Matador member Ryan Van Lenning happened to be on the front line of the Chevron protest & shares this first person dispatch. More »
Arab Golf Courses Threaten Mideast Water Supply
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Can't you get your golf on elsewhere? More »
Chevron: The Toxic Tour
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A Matador contributor takes a toxic tour of the Amazon. More »
Carbon Footprint of US Junk Mail Equivalent to 480,000 Cars
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The average person in the US receives 11 pieces of junk mail per week. How many trees would be saved, and how much carbon could be offset were this junk mail to be eliminated? More »
5 Diseases that are Thriving Thanks to Global Warming
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A wake-up call for policymakers (and local citizens) to do something about global warming? More »
