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Earth is now our only shareholder.

Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.

All photos by Ken Etzel If you get your nose close enough, ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch, depending on the tree. Washington is famous for its pine trees. It’s portrayed as a land of constant water and ever-present green, which, in mountain biking terms, translates to a land of perfect trails and…

Giving failure a chance in Greenland.

All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.

Renewing rivers one rodent at a time.

Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.

Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.

A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.

Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.

Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.

The making of a mountain-ready one-piece.

Our brains tend to like it that way.

How one young family took on 1,300 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. (Hint: There’s candy.)

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Do Skagit River salmon have legal rights?

Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.

narinda heng finds out by taking public transit from Oakland to Yosemite National Park.

Patagonia Climbing Ambassador Katie Lamb sews at her own pace.

A Patagonia advanced R&D designer takes to the Swedish alpine to test out a new pack prototype—and a bold idea for rethinking multiday trail travel.

Sometimes releasing the need to summit is what gets you there.

In the wake of a devastating wildfire, the communities of California’s Lost Sierra look to trails for hope, healing and a dose of dirt magic.

A trip to Amami Ōshima, Japan, transports Gerry Lopez to a familiar feeling on a distant land.

We have a lot to do, but we’re working on it.

A conversation with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy and co-author of The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years.

A short history of gear designed for very specific reasons.

A captain’s log from the biggest swell to hit
O‘ahu’s outer reefs in recent memory.

Since we first learned of the role we play in the spread of microfiber pollution in 2015, Patagonia has actively searched for partners to help end—or at least seriously curtail—the spread of synthetic fiber waste into the air and water. We’ve long been familiar with the microplastics problem—the breakdown of plastic bottles, yogurt cups and…

Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.

In the male-dominated world of alpinism, Juliana García is leading the way for a new generation of female mountaineers.

Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.

Those with the most to lose are uniting to save the Northwest’s salmon and steelhead.

Sometimes the only way to get stronger is to let go.

In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.

The decline of aquatic insects should bug everyone.

Trying to address the climate crisis without the ocean will not work.