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Global warming, climate change, pollution, deforestation... we're all familiar with at least some of the problems our world is facing.  This guide covers everything and anything about the environment and these issues.

Desertification: The World's Most Underestimated Environmental Crisis

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CHANGE:   We worry about global warming and oceans rising. But what about a dried up world?  More »

Hitting the Road... to Sustainability

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Wipe Out: World's Most Vulnerable Coastal Cities

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CHANGE:   Climate change experts predict which cities are most vulnerable if our seas continue to rise.   More »

10 Environmental Issues in China You Didn't Know About

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CHANGE:   Dust storms, extinctions, widespread pollution, out of control carbon emissions, unmitigated energy useage. . .learn what's really going on in China.   More »

5 Diseases that are Thriving Thanks to Global Warming

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CHANGE:   A wake-up call for policymakers (and local citizens) to do something about global warming?  More »

21st Century Refugees: Displaced By Climate Change

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CHANGE:   Climate change and rising sea levels are creating a new group of refugees.  More »

Photo Essay: Protest at Chevron's Annual Shareholder Meeting

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CHANGE:   A photo report of the protest outside Chevron's Annual Shareholder Meeting in San Ramon, California.   More »

Celebrities Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro for Clean Water


CHANGE:   Celebrities climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the one billion people around the world without safe drinking water.  More »

"60 Minutes" Exposes Chevron's Environmental Atrocity in the Amazon

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CHANGE:   Dirty deeds done dirt cheap turn a tidy profit for America's third largest company.   More »

Tracing oil profits: Oxfam asks, "Where does all the money go?"

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CHANGE:   Big oil has big profit losses. But people in the communities where oil is extracted have long wondered where *their* profits are.   More »

BioTour: Journey Into a Sustainable Future

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CHANGE:   A school bus converted to run on veggie oil and driven to Burning Man now on a nationwide educational tour.  More »

What's Your Water Footprint?

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CHANGE:   Water: It's the new carbon.   More »

How to Make Your Christmas Greener

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CHANGE:   Neha Puntambekar shares all you need to know about having an environmentally conscious Christmas.   More »

Introducing the First (Green) Family

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CHANGE:   Foodies, rejoice! The First Family IS planting an organic garden!  More »

Exposing the Bi-Partisan Myth of Clean Coal

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CHANGE:   One topic Obama and McCain won’t be wrangling over: so-called “clean” coal. But how clean is it, really?  More »

Celebs plan Kilimanjaro cake walk to raise money for clean water

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CHANGE:   I may not have Jessica Biel's body, but even I know Mt. Kilimanjaro is no cake walk.   More »

Plastic Bag Ban: Coming Soon to a City Near You?

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CHANGE:   Governments around the world are banning plastic bags.  More »

9 Disappearing Glaciers Worldwide: A Photo Essay

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CHANGE:   The world's rapidly-shrinking glaciers are the most stunning evidence, visually and scientifically, of global climate change.  More »

Intolerable Beauty: Chris Jordan Photographs American Mass Consumption

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CHANGE:   "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 »

Arab Golf Courses Threaten Mideast Water Supply

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CHANGE:   Can't you get your golf on elsewhere?   More »

Chevron: The Toxic Tour

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CHANGE:   A Matador contributor takes a toxic tour of the Amazon.  More »

Chevron's Greenwashing Ad Campaign

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CHANGE:   It's simple, touchy-feely, and personal. But critics say Chevron's latest ad campaign is just the latest example of corporate greenwashing.   More »

Should travel writers care about their environmental impact?

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CHANGE:   That's the take-away question in the latest "twitstorm."  More »

First Person Dispatch from the Chevron Protest

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CHANGE:   Matador member Ryan Van Lenning happened to be on the front line of the Chevron protest & shares this first person dispatch.   More »

New Report: World Still Unprepared For Climate Change

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CHANGE:   The National Research Council reminds us that we need to make changes, pronto.  More »

Shame on Shell: Settlement Reached in Wiwa v. Shell

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CHANGE:   That rumor about a settlement in Wiwa v. Shell wasn't unfounded. Here's the latest.   More »

Fighting Deforestation In Copenhagen

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Climate Change Seen Firsthand

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CHANGE:   Matador's editors share the effects of climate change they've observed on their travels.   More »

Google's PowerMeter calculates your energy use

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CHANGE:   Google, could you just go ahead and take over the world?   More »

Japan to Harvest Energy from the Sun Via Solar Space Station

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CHANGE:   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 »

Grand Central Gets Greener

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CHANGE:   New York City's transportation crossroads and tourist attraction gets green makeover.   More »

Carbon Footprint of US Junk Mail Equivalent to 480,000 Cars

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CHANGE:   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 »

Best Buy wants you to recycle electronics

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CHANGE:   And they're making it easy for you.   More »

Plastic Bans on Uptick Around the World

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CHANGE:   Let's hope these plastic bans lead to a domino effect.   More »

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