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

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 captain’s log from the biggest swell to hitO‘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…

Architect and climber Dylan Johnson joins up with Yvon Chouinard and a hardworking crew to construct two houses using straw bales.

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.

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

When the fish stop flourishing, a few local Scots take matters into their own hands, one seagrass bed at a time.

The decline of aquatic insects should bug everyone.

Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.

Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.

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

An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.

Lost and in search of purpose, one man turns to bikes as his vehicle to overcome.

Hard alpinism in the Cordillera Huayhuash endures as the climate changes the routes.

A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.

The craft of building Chumash canoes was nearly lost. Alan Salazar is helping to keep it alive, one tomol at a time.

Even when the demands of a protest are not met, it can have lasting, immeasurable consequences.

How we’re finally getting to PFC-free—and why it took so long.